Sentences with phrase «overt efforts»

While I generally agree that Betsy DeVos is bad for education because of her inexperience in education and overt efforts to use education reform «to advance God's kingdom,» I take offense with your position that charters and choice are not what Latino families need, and here's why:

It happens on an almost subconscious level that transcends overt efforts to stir up sympathy.

Though the overt efforts of the script and performances to adhere to the same liveliness are obvious, they continually miss the mark.

Patience and cunning helped: Kubodera suspects the giants, or Architeuthis dux, were scared off by more overt efforts to find them.

China also makes no overt effort to question Russia's role in the region, avoiding the zero - sum dynamics that have led to numerous conflicts between Russia and the West and could otherwise cause tension in the region.

I would suggest that this is why gold is moving higher despite the overt effort by the Fed / banks to suppress the price and the overwhelming negative investor sentiment toward gold.

If step one does not work, make an overt effort to confront the issue.

«Eventually, you might even be able to put in less overt effort as you are carried along by your own momentum.

People who can't stop humming catchy tunes remember the catchy tunes sung by singers whose voices match with those tunes which thereafter become forever imbedded within in their brains; the words (scripts) are almost always of secondary importance until matched with the tunes and need to be memorized via overt effort.

Not exact matches

The most recent instance of an overt propaganda campaign has been the CIA's public - relations effort to discredit its critics in the congressional inquiries.

The task force subsequently made no serious effort to accommodate the heavy criticism that the 1991 study document had drawn, although in the 1993 draft the radical feminist obsession with issues of power is less overt.

Subsequently, enterprises ranging from overt Jewish missionary efforts to orthodox Messianic congregations have been called «Jews for Jesus.»

This effort to reign in overt displays of Christian allegiance is reported to be a part of a larger movement, initiated by the Chinese government, to increase restrictions on religious gatherings.

Sometimes overt action against one evil is a futile effort - or produces a greater evil.

Treating it simply as a moral issue arouses guilt and efforts to change overt behavior.

That his supporting efforts shine amongst the many overt endeavours to elicit attention is telling; so too, his status as the only earnest part of the overconfident, undercooked franchise attempt.

Nope — while it avoids the overt dumbed - down idiocy of efforts like Geostorm or Olympus Has Fallen, it lacks much to make it interesting.

Schools» successful efforts in prevention and management of overt bullying may result in increases in covert bullying (including cyberbullying), as young people find alternative means to bully, new technologies emerge and where policy development and management strategies lag behind.

The school will make every effort to eliminate any social stigma attached to, and prevent the overt identification of, students who are eligible for free and reduced - price school meals.

Since then, some districts have made an effort to diversify classrooms, though often without overt reference to the return of racial segregation to schools.

But, perhaps because its efforts are so proactive and overt, this aspect of the no - excuses model has generated more controversy.

An investigation of two 1971 exhibitions — Contemporary Black Artists in America at the old Whitney, and The DeLuxe Show, an abstract art show in a Houston movie theater — English's book «looks at many black artists» desire to gain freedom from overt racial representation, as well as their efforts — and those of their advocates — to further that aim through public exhibition...

There have been other more overt recent efforts using improper methods like CPA at places like Real Climate, or Mann with a bogus temperature graphic in Scientific American in April.

The overwhelming majority of these companies have no overt incentive to undermine the U.S. climate effort.

To do so in the shadow of overt refusal of the efforts of Indigenous people to advance reconciliation through the Uluru Statement from the Heart reinforces the political message of callousness.

Whether a parent's painful journey is catalyzed by the calculated efforts of the «favored» parent's overt or covert manipulation, or whether it's due to other factors, this book provides long term proof that reunification with an estranged child is possible through persistence, guidance, patience, and a clear eye on the targeted goal.