Sentences with phrase «own unsuccessful efforts»

57 The consequence of this understanding is the adopting of a position that I have termed «hard determinism,» controlling every element in creation, in contrast to «soft determinism,» in which God's final victory gives definitive shape to all that we have provisionally worked out by our own exercise of freedom along the way.58 It is what finally renders Pannenberg's attempt to defend Augustine by shifting God from Eternal Present to Ultimate Future an unsuccessful effort to resolve the issue of theodicy.

-- The lessons learned by alcoholics from their own failures and the unsuccessful efforts of other human beings and entities.

Aussie Farmers was losing $ 500,000 a week when directors finally pulled the plug in March after major shareholders including Everyday Gourmet, Hendale AM (Singapore) and Sujajo Investments withdrew their support following unsuccessful efforts to restructure, recapitalise or sell the business.

I have a container of grated carrots in my fridge from an unsuccessful effort at carrot cake.

Until the FBI raided his office, home and hotel room in April, President Donald Trump's longtime personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, was known mostly for his star turns on cable television as his client's most cringe - worthy defender, along with his spectacularly unsuccessful effort to silence a porn...

At 68, Tolbert is making his third run for public office following his unsuccessful effort against Brown in 2013 and another failed bid for the Buffalo Board of Education in 2014.

The group on Tuesday released its legislative score cards for the 213 members of the Legislature on Tuesday, using three measurements: Their vote on the 2013 SAFE Act, the unsuccessful effort in 2015 to repeal it in the Senate and whether the lawmaker is a sponsor of a safe - storage bill, known as Nicholas's Law.

Alcantara's deep ties to labor earned her the support of liberal unions like the Hotel and Motel Trades Council and NYSNA, some of whom had invested heavily in 2014 in an unsuccessful effort to help mainline Democrats reclaim control of the Senate.

The station has made strenuous but unsuccessful efforts the verify Mr. Kennedy Agyepong's claims.

Sugarman's memo paints a picture of a coordinated effort by the mayor and his allies — dubbed interchangeably as «Team de Blasio» and «Team Coordinated» — to deliberately circumvent legal campaign donation limits in three upstate races in what turned out to be an unsuccessful effort to help Democrats win control of the state Senate in 2014.

The state teachers» union is heading into session in a weakened state after spending millions in an unsuccessful effort to elect Democrats to the Senate, alienating Republicans in the process.

Authorities are also examining whether de Blasio's unsuccessful effort to win control of the state Senate violated campaign finance and election laws.

Rechnitz also gave the maximum $ 102,300 to de Blasio's unsuccessful effort to unseat Republican lawmakers in Albany during the 2014 elections to gain control of the Legislature for the Democrats.

Meanwhile, the media company has since published that «The station has made strenuous, but unsuccessful efforts to verify from Mr Kennedy Agyepong's claims that large sums of questionable amounts of money had been found in the former BOST CEO's personal account».

In seeking to make de Blasio suffer, Cuomo has a partner in Flanagan, whose members are still smarting from the mayor's unsuccessful effort to help the Senate Democrats take back the majority in 2014.

De Blasio — who was criticized over how he steered donations to Democrats during their unsuccessful efforts to take control of the Senate in 2014 — said helping Democrats in the Senate «should be in the forefront of all we do here.»

The mayor has spent weeks avoiding answering questions about his past and upcoming discussions with Vance and Bharara regarding their respective probes into his unsuccessful efforts to help Democrats take the State Senate in 2014, and his now - defunct political nonprofit, the Campaign for One New York.

Pataki had strongly campaigned for Bush including an unsuccessful effort to keep John McCain off the New York primary ballot (which Bush ultimately won).

Rechnitz also donated the maximum $ 102,300 to the mayor's unsuccessful efforts to unseat upstate Republican legislators to retake the Senate for Democrats.

(Also deeply involved in the effort to get the NY developer into the race: Roger Stone, who was an advisor to Paladino during his unsuccessful effort to defeat Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo).

Ahead of the Nov. 8 election, when every seat in the Legislature is up for grabs, the Senate Democrats have found themselves linked to state and federal investigations examining whether New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio and his allies violated laws as part of an unsuccessful effort in 2014 to bring the chamber under Democratic control.

For example, in a 2014 meeting of the state retirement commission, then - state labor relations chief Linda Yelmini, a commission member, asked whether there had been a «deal» between state Attorney General George Jepsen and Republican Senate Leader Len Fasano, R - North Haven, on a legal opinion relating to Maturo's ultimately unsuccessful effort.

This was Doheny's third unsuccessful effort to capture the 21st district seat.

Mr. de Blasio told reporters last month that he had been questioned in connection with the state inquiry, which is focused on possible violations of election law during the mayor's unsuccessful effort to help Democrats retake control of the State Senate in 2014.

The mayor is the subject of a multipronged investigation by state and federal authorities over an unsuccessful effort in 2014 to oust Senate Republicans from power.

Sugarman's internal memo accuses de Blasio and his political aides of breaking campaign finance laws by funneling contributions over the legal limit into county committees in an unsuccessful effort to return the state Senate to Democratic control in 2014.

De Blasio was soundly defeated by Success CEO Eva Moskowitz in a very public fight over school space, despite largely unsuccessful efforts to de-escalate the battle with a conciliatory speech at Riverside Church and other overtures.

Both Hilltop and BerlinRosen were paid a total of more than $ 2 million from the Campaign for One New York to push initiatives such as universal Pre-K and de Blasio's unsuccessful effort to help Democrats win control of the state Senate.

Upstate mayors have launched unsuccessful efforts in the past to seize control of their cities» public schools.

Baker raised over $ 89,000 in her unsuccessful effort.

For his part, Mr. Vallone touted his «fighter» credentials, comparing himself favorably to Mr. Seabrook and recounting his various political battles, including his high - profile, yet ultimately unsuccessful effort to stop Council Speaker Christine Quinn from renaming the Queensboro Bridge after former Mayor Ed Koch.

Seems the WEP — ostensibly founded to push women's issues, but actually an unsuccessful effort to steal votes from the union - controlled Working Families Party — bungled the paperwork to formally constituting itself.

Those recordings revealed that both men were concerned about electronic surveillance, and illustrated the son's unsuccessful efforts to thwart it.

Kaku's story is an outgrowth of a session at Aspen called «Einstein's Unfinished Symphony,» which was supposed to be a discussion about the great physicist's long and unsuccessful effort to come up with a unified field theory — what has become known as a theory of everything.

But many researchers had argued that those remains were only evidence of unsuccessful efforts at wider migration.

Older traces of modern humans previously discovered outside Africa, such as the roughly 100,000 - year - old remains from the Skhul and Qafzeh caves in Israel, were discarded by scientists as evidence of unsuccessful efforts at wider migration.

But if her own parents aren't watchful enough, Creasy is willing to devote himself wholly to Pita, even to the point of being shot to pieces in an unsuccessful effort to prevent her kidnapping outside the piano lesson Samuel has insisted she take (though she has declared her preference for swimming, in effect, present bodyguard over absent dad).

Creasy's dedication will cost him dearly, as he's shot to pieces during an unsuccessful effort to prevent her kidnapping.

Flying solo in the creative process, as it were, allows the audience to experience Wright for the first time, and Baby Driver marks a rebirth of sorts, coming after the delays brought about by his unsuccessful efforts to make Ant - Man.

Yesterday, the Los Angeles Daily News Editorial Board decried the CTA's so - far unsuccessful efforts to kill the Teacher and Student Success Act (AB 1220), a bill authored by Assemblymember Shirley Weber (D - San Diego) at the urging of teacher organizations Teach Plus and Educators for Excellence.

Particularly for Baby Boomers and hardcore progressives within the AFT's rank - and - file, the ruling is a reminder of how weak the union has become, and that Weingarten's unsuccessful efforts to triangulate school reformers has, in their minds, contributed to the problem.

Students learn some facts about our healthcare system, and discuss Republicans» unsuccessful efforts (so far) to roll back Obamacare.

After the loss, Salon Magazine wrote, «Joshua Thompson, Finch's director of education and youth, defended the unsuccessful effort, saying the mayor was following the recommendations of «a report handed back to him» by a charter commission that was based on testimony by academics and «major reformers» like former New York City schools chief Joel Klein.

Based upon a complaint I filed, Connecticut's State Election's Enforcement Commission has opened an official investigation into the alleged campaign finance violations of Residents for a Better Bridgeport, the political action committee that was created to support Bridgeport Mayor Bill Finch's unsuccessful effort to eliminate Bridgeport's democratically elected Board of Education and replace it with one appointed by himself.

Among the influential members of NAACP's 64 member board: Hazel Dukes, whose long (and often infamous) tenure as head of its Empire State affiliate included teaming up with the AFT's United Federation of Teachers in an unsuccessful effort to stop the Big Apple from renting space in half - empty traditional school buildings to charter schools.

Asking for such specific feedback can help all stakeholders review how successful or unsuccessful the efforts on recruiting, on hiring, and on supporting new principals have been.

Leonard had long supported unsuccessful efforts to get Congress to adopt some form of carbon cap and trade initiative, where the federal government would enforce a slowly lowering cap on emissions, with some companies selling reductions beyond their cap levels to others that were likely to violate the cap.

«I think of Bloomberg's millions the same way I do the millions Steyer flushed down the toilet last year — flotsam,» Laura Sheehan of the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity said, referring to the millions San Francisco billionaire and environmentalist crusader Tom Steyer spent last year in mostly unsuccessful efforts to elect candidates committed to government programs to combat alleged man - made climate change.

This article by Jane McAdam traces the «catalytic effect» of paragraph 14 (f) of the Cancún Adaptation Framework, through to the concerted, but ultimately unsuccessful effort of the UNHCR in 2011 to get states to agree to the formulation of a «global guiding framework» on displacement relating to climate change and natural disasters.

He spent about $ 50 million in an unsuccessful effort to pass Proposition 87, the November ballot initiative aimed at taxing oil companies to fund alternative energy initiatives.