Sentences with phrase «past efforts by»

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The cost of health insurance premiums has skyrocketed by more than 130 percent over the past decade, and it is possible they will be impervious to reform efforts.

Over the past few years, the Obama administration has made an effort to address the issue by proposing to raise the federal minimum to $ 10.10 an hour.

Recently released preliminary data from the 2012 Survey of Business Owners — the Census Bureau's effort to take stock of American companies every five years — show that the fraction of businesses owned by women improved substantially over the past five years.

The appeal follows ramped - up efforts by U.S. authorities to crack down on insider trading, with the SEC announcing charges against more than 550 people in the past six years.

Here's what it has to show for its efforts: In the past five years, its total share count is down by about one - fifth, and earnings per share are up 15 %.

Separate work by Wellesley University researchers details dozens of past efforts to influence Google search results and Facebook news feeds.

By recognizing that pushing past that fear is the key to moving forward in your goals, you'll learn to channel your efforts in the right direction and remove the negative habits that may be holding you back.

According to HSZ Media, internal recruiting efforts have grown by 25 % over the past five years.

One of the individuals we spoke to has been falsely accused by online hackers of cybersecurity breaches in the past, according to The Times, raising the possibility that a calculated effort is being made by some hackers to frame a teenager over the hack.

In the past, his team has relied on organic measures like referrals (the company amassed 200,000 - plus Facebook fans mostly by word of mouth), but it has tried more targeted efforts recently, including a small campaign using Yahoo's native ads platform.

A China - based business source with knowledge of discussion among senior European officials said there had been a «clear effort» by the U.S. government over the past six months to introduce a coordinated approach to Chinese industrial policy, but that Trump's metals tariffs had undermined European support.

A China - based business source with knowledge of discussion among senior European officials said there had been a «clear effort» by the U.S. government over the past six months to introduce a coordinated approach to Chinese industrial policy, but that Trump's proposed metals tariffs under section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962 had undermined support from Europe.

If you can resist the temptation to steamroll ahead and instead find your ideal pocket of influence, you'll be rewarded by avoiding those ill - timed, wasted efforts that diluted your impact in the past.

The letter notes that the current backdrop of strong and balanced global growth is underpinned by a resilient global financial system that is the product of determined efforts by the G20 and FSB over the past decade.

The letter continued: «Our ad reminds viewers that Kim Jong - un and his army of hackers have been stealing billions of dollars of Bitcoin and other digital currencies for the past few years, funding their rogue nuclear weapons programs and thwarting efforts by the rest of the world to sanction this behavior.»

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 Fed's actual efforts on the monetary loosening / tightening front over the past 5 years are encapsulated by the following weekly chart of Reserve Bank Credit (RBC).

Profits at Japanese automakers have surged in yen terms as the Japanese currency weakened against the U.S. dollar over the past year, helped by a mammoth Bank of Japan effort to expand the money supply and ignite inflation to end years of economic stagnation.

China's push to become a major maker of solar panels has driven down global prices by close to 90 percent over the past decade, helping international efforts to curb emissions of planet - warming greenhouse gases.

The past two years have seen the appearance of an informative Encyclopedia of the American Constitution (4 vols., edited by Leonard W. Levy [Macmillan]-RRB-, several outstanding studies on its intellectual background (including Forrest McDonald's Novus Ordo Seculorum: The Intellectual Origins of the Constitution [University Press of Kansas] and Morton White's Philosophy, The Federalist, and the Constitution [Oxford University Press], at least one pathbreaking effort to trace the document's role through the years (Michael Kammen's A Machine That Would Go of Itself The Constitution in American Culture [Knopf]-RRB- and a gaggle of good books on its religious themes (see Martin Marty's review in The Century [«James Madison Revisited,» April 9.

This notion of freedom from the past does not in my opinion lack a qualitative reference, for it is concerned with my own particular past, with what I have made of my self under the illusion that self - hood is something to be achieved by my own efforts.

For this quest was initiated by the enlightenment in its effort to escape the limitations of dogma, and thereby to gain access to the whole reality of the past.

An intensive seven - month investigation by Donald L. Bartlett and James B. Steele reveals some of the negative aspects of past efforts.12 More than $ 172 billion has been spent since World War II in overseas assistance.

You prepare for them by YEAR ROUND sending out teams, evaluating the environment and weather trends, comparing past trends (firestorms in Cali come about every 3 to 4 years on average), future projections, and physical efforts to stop new burns from going out of control.

During the past year Louisville's news has been dominated by several seemingly disparate issues — the troubled relationship between the police department and the African - American community; efforts to build more mixed - income housing in the city; adoption of a regional plan intended to moderate suburban sprawl; disagreement about the number and location of proposed new Ohio River bridges linking Louisville and southern Indiana; a campaign to attract high - tech business to the downtown area; and a lively election campaign around the issue of a city - county merger.

If you have been caught in error in the past, or if you are afraid of being caught in error in the future, you can mature and protect yourself from false teachers by taking time and making effort to study good biblical teaching and listen to good biblical teachers.

Yet for the most part I am disappointed by the efforts of many theologians of the past 15 years who have seduced theology into well - meaning but largely self - serving purposes.

Gibbons is a dedicated advocate for the restaurant industry, as evidenced by his many past and present positions at the state and national level such as at the National Restaurant Association, National Restaurant Association Educational Foundation, and U.S. Department of Commerce Travel and Tourism Advisory Board, and through his philanthropic efforts.

However, the efforts made by the company over the past six years have paid off in a supply chain that is safer, more efficient and more productive than ever before.

Over the past 25 years, Howard Park has exerted considerable effort into defining and classifying the vineyards in these two regions by variety to ensure the quality levels demanded are continually upheld and improved.

This year, judges believe Hong Kong's leading wine importer Kerry Wines demonstrated tireless efforts to expand its product portfolio — adding another 14 brands in the past year — and keen dedication to provide education and training by offering sommelier masterclasses, WSET courses in addition to first - hand visits to vineyards and wineries.

Past efforts to strike trade agreements have been stymied by the EU's generous protections for its farmers.

I'm heartened at the efforts to reduce food loss and waste that have gained traction in the past year, and with even greater action by governments and businesses we can accelerate global progress toward Target 12.3.»

In the past year, food manufacturers and retailers scaled up their ambitions and efforts to cut consumer food waste by standardizing food date labels, including The Consumer Goods Forum's Call to Action to standardize date labeling worldwide by 2020, complemented by enhanced consumer education of meaning of date labels.

Uh, small problem: All three players have been traded away by the Blueshirts in the past two months as part of the organization's rebuilding effort.

Why so much effort and so much money spent to enter the top 4 in every single year?Just to be embarrased everytime by anyone?I mean, is not worth it if you don't take advantage of that and go for the glory.Everything is on vain, just the pleasure of showing up?This team doesn't have a future, it is just a mediocre one, get use it.Glory times are past, class players are gone... what is left?Just a name chasing the shadows of the past.And all this sorrow atmosphere has only one man responsible - Arsene Wenger.He must go for the good of the club, he is just a stone dragging the team backward or keeping it still.Just go Arsena, don't embarras yourself and the beautiful times you lived here.

Son then hit the post before Kane's record - breaking goal came on 58 minutes — by no means his finest in a Spurs shirt as he bobbled a close - range effort past the Everton goalkeeper, but it meant so much to him and everyone of a Spurs persuasion nevertheless!

Townsend would round off the first 45's proceedings by sending a curling effort whistling inches past the post, leaving Town pondering what it could do to turn the tide on a fresh night in the Capital.

Midfielder Callum McGregor then cracked the bar with a deflected strike from 20 yards before he had a toe - poked effort from 12 yards pushed past the post by Imps keeper Raul Navas for another fruitless corner.

Arsenal FC went 1 - 0 up in the 24th minute after some nice work by English international Alex Oxlade - Chamberlain on the right flank, who first beat full - back Cesar Azpilicueta with some neat skills before hitting a well struck effort past a helpless Courtois.

It was not the start United wanted when the Hammers took the lead in the tenth minute following a cross from the left that found Sakho unmarked in the box and his effort was deflected by Blind past the despairing dive of De Gea to give the home fans more to shout about.

Messi finally got in on the act after 57 minutes by cushioning Alexis Sanchez's drilled pass with the instep before curling a beautiful effort past Courtois from the edge of the area.

As claimed by Don Balon and reviving a story that has been floated at least twice already over the past month, Barcelona have sent word to Coutinho via his agent that if the player can resist Liverpool's efforts to cup tie him hey will return to sign him in January.

Then Diaby produced a wonderful piece of skill to weave past a marker before having a powerful effort blocked by another defender.

Great wing play down the left by Redmond, who somehow gets his way to the byline before pulling the ball back for the unmarked Ward - Prowse eight yards out, but the midfielder's goalbound effort is blocked, before Cedric drills the rebound just past the left - hand post.

A superb solo run by the Frenchman had the Amex on their feet soon after as the midfielder skipped past challenges and fired towards goal but his effort was deflected up and into the grateful arms of Lloris.

Ozil has been carried by his fellow Gunners teammates in the past couple of outings, and it appears that his career is on a downfall following his visible lack of effort on the playing field.

Besides the 2013 University of Washington study, a number of other recent studies have found education ineffective in improving self - reporting by athletes, adding to a growing body of evidence challenging the conventional wisdom that inadequate athlete concussion knowledge is the principal barrier to increased reporting, and suggesting that one of the best ways to combat underreporting by athletes of concussion symptoms may be to shift the focus of educational efforts towards helping coaches facilitate concussion reporting, the theory being that athletes will be more likely to report concussion symptoms if they no longer think that they will be punished by the coach for reporting, such as by losing playing time or their starting position, perceived by their teammates as letting them down, or viewed by their coach as «weak,» all of which have been documented in numerous studies over the past decade as reasons athletes are reluctant to report concussion symptoms.

The effort to promote breastfeeding by demeaning formula feeding has only accelerated in the past two decades.

I've reported in the past on efforts by various cities to impose a so - called «Happy Meal Toy Ban,» i.e., a prohibition on the inclusion of toys in less healthy fast food meals marketed to children.