Sentences with phrase «own best efforts»

Despite the best efforts of politicians, experts, and journalists to predict how the political landscape will change over the next few years, nobody really knows what it will happen.

Even when your customer service team is giving their best effort, you'll still likely encounter a fair share of unhappy or frustrated customers.

How well these efforts are working remains to be seen, although the IHS» Brannon says even à la carte pricing, which the IPTV providers have also dabbled in, hasn't led to a decrease in the rate of subscribership decline he expected to see.

Most of us aspire to conquer more and more work in less and less time, but since none of us can cram more hours into the day (despite our best efforts), increasing our productivity is the best we can do.

This chart from Deutsche Bank is the firm's best effort at capturing how we can measure liquidity.

In addition to motivating them through traditional recognition methods, I've found that letting them know their personal objectives are important to me earns their best efforts and loyalty.

A new career is as good an effort as any.

The tests certainly seemed to have pegged me, despite my best efforts to cheat.

Entrepreneurs might be especially focused on productivity, but despite your best efforts to concentrate on your business, you're probably not awfully consistent at it.

If nothing else, you want your workforce to feel fairly compensated, and that when they deliver consistent, good effort, it results in tangible benefits.

If you've got folks who are disengaged, who don't like their bosses, who don't like their work, who just come to their job to pick up their paycheck, they're probably not giving you their best effort.»

What to do instead: Regardless of how you're feeling, show enthusiasm for being there and make your best effort.

Sonnekalb says when people play The Mars 2030 Experience they will be seeing the team's best efforts to re-create what it would look like if someone was actually standing on Mars today.

Despite your best efforts and intentions, mistakes happen and it doesn't make sense to dwell on them.

Chances are, even with your best efforts the post-holiday shopping season will still be slower.

A spokesman for Vertu told the Telegraph: «Our best efforts to achieve a pre-pack administration have failed because the financial requirements specified within the negotiations went beyond the point where the new company had a chance of financial viability.»

He berates and belittles even their best efforts.

«Your salvation is to pray for good health for the US President Trump and give your best efforts to help him make our country great again.»

It could also be because, despite its best efforts, SoundCloud had been plagued by copyright infringement issues.

China's factory sector struggled to gain speed in September while Japanese inflation went backwards in August despite the best efforts of policymakers, underscoring the limits of stimulus in reviving world growth.

Now it appears as though these same hackers used the State Department cyber intrusion — which has been ongoing despite the department's best efforts to block and wipe it — as a beachhead to gain entry into the White House's computer systems.

«In the end for me it's less about the outcome than it is about whether I put in the best effort relative to our team's potential.»

The best efforts of companies to hire and promote women may simply not be enough to achieve true gender parity.

Despite companies» best efforts to provide stellar support to customers throughout the year, quality can suffer when the holidays roll around.

Despite Facebook's best efforts, some users worry, the company might not be able to secure information they share on the platform or keep it anonymous.

Regardless of the best efforts of the broader labour movement to improve working conditions for all, a large group is not convinced we are getting the job done.

After a couple of years, despite my best efforts, this project started to feel meaningful.

And giving every pitch your best effort doesn't necessarily mean pitching at every effort.

As the day flies by, you realize you're behind, or you are on schedule only because you haven't put forth your best effort in hopes of completion.

You might wonder how it's possible to give your best effort to your startup and your family.

Despite our best efforts to implement systems and processes to improve operations, the needle didn't move.

If you give each new challenge your best effort, you'll experience positive outcomes more often than not.

The results are in from North Korea's latest missile test, and it looks as if the country's weapons program is advancing despite the US's best efforts.

That was my best effort to be sensitive to the victim while responsible to the public's right to know.»

But despite its best efforts, VMware itself is not a big player in the brave new world of public cloud computing, the shared data center infrastructure pioneered by Amazon Web Services (amzn), which is now facing heated competition from Microsoft (msft) and Google (googl).

Carefully consider whether you have the mental and physical stamina to give your best effort to both your job and your business.

Still, here's our best effort to sum things up:

«Despite our best efforts, we don't always meet everyone's expectations, and when we get it wrong, you are quick to tell us.

The only other significant difference from last week's offer was that ABI committed to make the «best efforts» to secure regulatory clearances required for the deal, a wording that could leave it liable for compensation if it fails to get antitrust clearance in key markets.

And when players stopped training, or didn't put in a good effort, they lost their new memory muscle.

It's impossible to feel mentally strong when you're engaging in self - destructive behaviors that sabotage your best efforts.

Competitive environments prompt everyone to consistently give their best effort.

Actually getting your employees to buy in and give it their best effort is another.

«Despite our best efforts, all we see of the Earth's climate is a really narrow snapshot in time,» she said.

That is something I am proud of in an industry where, despite the best efforts of governing bodies, unethical decisions often affect patient care and hospital bottom lines.

And despite Google's best efforts, none can match the iTunes ecosystem of the newest cutting edge mobile apps.

For consumers who are concerned about their data getting swept up as part of blanket surveillance, the best efforts are probably devices that encrypt your data or avoid putting them in the cloud in the first place.

There will be times when you must accept that despite your best efforts, an idea or business can not be saved.

In fact, despite the best efforts of a group of companies called pharmacy benefits managers (PBMs), such as CVS Caremark and Express Scripts, mail order pharmacies only fill a paltry 1 out of every 10 prescriptions.

«Since 2008, despite Kodak's best efforts, restructuring costs and recessionary forces have continued to negatively impact the company's liquidity position,» Kodak's chief financial officer, Antoinette P. McCorvey, said in a court filing on Thursday.