Sentences with phrase «past efforts»

Didn't the designers of past efforts also believe they were focused on the critical issues?

They are so convinced that the old system is broken and so focused on fixing it for the future that they often fail to consider what lessons might be learned from past efforts.

We are perhaps fooled by past efforts at reducing pollution, where we have greatly improved air and water quality when we wanted to.

His training has many top level endurance athletes setting personal records far beyond past efforts with a dramatic reduction in training time and mileage.

Added into the final agreement was a nod to past efforts by local governments to share and consolidate functions with other local governments.

Check out information on past efforts, including tips on health, parenting, employment, and volunteering.

But despite past efforts, this optimization problem remains complicated.

To investors, past efforts don't count, only results.

Didn't past efforts also represent significant increases in funding for their time?

The Republican effort, as similar past efforts, failed to draw more than a few of the critical Democratic votes needed to pass the resolutions.

What's plagued past efforts and what are you doing that's different?

What would stop that money, as in so many past efforts, from being allocated by lobbyists rather than engineers?

Consider the value, for example, of calculating marketing ROI by analyzing past efforts or of generating future sales and marketing results with predictive analytics.

The image, while an improvement over past efforts, wasn't quite at the atomic scale yet — that required other advances.

Past efforts coming to life today via strong excess cash flow generation is what it's all about.

To compare future commitments while ignoring past efforts is dishonest.

Some of these ideas have been recycled from past efforts.

Color Splash follows in the tradition of the Galaxy series and 3D World of integrating a full band orchestra into the Mario series, and just as in past efforts, it pays off beautifully.

Anyone who's familiar with this genre will quickly recognize where Cold Creek Manor is picking up its ideas from such past efforts as Pacific Heights, Cape Fear, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, and The Shining (the novel and 1997 mini-series, not the Kubrick film).

However, even her disguise is hardly rendered with the charismatic, androgynous mystery that informed past efforts like Katharine Hepburn's Sylvia Scarlett or Garbo's Queen Christina.

Past efforts such as Colombia's Consolidation Plan in 2007, which aimed to recover territory previously held by rebels, had a minimal effect: Many regions saw military interventions, but no follow - up development of civilian institutions.

One such item was an article entitled Publish and be Famed (Gazette 93/24, 26 June 1996, p. 20) that I wrote for The Gazette, the magazine of the Law Society of England and Wales and I re-read it with the usual degree of embarrassment that anyone does in reviewing past efforts.

He even reproduces his own past efforts in fancier and fancier environments, as if to ensure that artistic rebellion has become itself a global commodity.

Who says: Veterans of failed past efforts to take on entitlements; assorted skeptics and cynics — including, sometimes, ourselves.

What these latest State Election Enforcement Commission reveal is that Patrick Riccards, ConnAD and ConnCAN have now moved past their efforts to influence policy through their lobbying and have begun to directly campaign for and against individual candidates.

Revisions to old data make past efforts look better than they actually were.

And not starting over, Karapetyan says, is essential to providing at - risk students with a level of security in knowing past efforts count toward graduation.

Veteran entrepreneurs used to bury past efforts that didn't work out, training themselves to deftly talk around the unsuccessful ventures on their CVs.

They either perfect and repeat past efforts or abolish strategies that clearly did not work.

In so doing, they sought also to move beyond past efforts at unity from a single imperial center.

The group urges those who remain in the industry to be wise and not jeopardize past efforts to secure milk prices.

«She learns about instructions, teamwork, camaraderie, collaboration, competition and motivation as she pushes past her effort to win.

Southold Town Supervisor delivered his annual «State of the Town» address Thursday night, noting past efforts and changes to come, including a new site for the Justice Court.

Assemblyman Robert Oaks, R - Macedon: No «I have opposed past efforts to create a full - time legislature, as I believe it is a strength to have people serving and voting on laws who come from various walks of life and various professional backgrounds.

But lawmakers who currently oversee the agency's budget «could be a stumbling block if they feel they are losing control,» he says — noting that such problems helped sink several past efforts to move the agency.

Rare breed Past efforts to breed Sumatran rhinos in captivity have been spectacularly unsuccessful.

This case study looks at how funding from the Forest Investment Program finances programmatic efforts to address underlying causes of deforestation and forest degradation and to overcome barriers that have hindered past efforts, in Mexico.

The cast is terrific vocally with special kudos to Streep, whose range is explored far more than in past efforts Mamma Mia and A Prairie Home companion, and Pine — who shines both in a sequence with The Baker's Wife and another with Rapunzel's Prince (Billy Magnussen).

If a feeble romp like this can keep Sandler famous and encourage a new generation to discover and enjoy his superior past efforts, then some good has been done.

That comes in the form of David Ayer who has proven a fierce propensity for quality in past efforts Fury and End of Watch.

Professor Joe Nation, Project Director of the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research, has produced a comprehensive examination for Secure Futures Colorado of why past efforts to reform Colorado PERA have fallen short, and what it would take for this latest legislative push to be successful.

The bill, which now is pending in the state Senate, is supported by the California Teachers Association, which was criticized for having defeated past efforts to streamline teacher -LSB-...]

Unprecedented efforts are underway to ensure that this round of standards reform, unlike past efforts, will really make a difference.

Although perhaps not well - remembered now, the C70 was a breakthrough for Volvo, with a sleek, sophisticated exterior design that marked a drastic departure from the brand's boxier past efforts.

Animals are quite capable of remembering past efforts and will embroider their behavior in a strategy to get the reward (the click and the treat).

Silicon Knights past efforts include the Gamecube scare-fest, Eternal Darkness, and the highly - stylized Gamecube port of Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes.

The results can be seen in her new paintings, where excavations of paint films reveal past efforts and decisions.

The new wave of innovation is reminiscent past effort to «get the lead out», only this time the focus is to «get the carbon out» of our transportation fuels and miles traveled.