Sentences with phrase «past efforts like»

Past efforts like this have failed, and you will as well.»

It seems poised to follow in the footsteps of the filmmaker's past efforts like Frances Ha, The Squid and the Whale, and Greenberg.

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.

Not exact matches

While employees from enterprise companies (defined as companies with 500 or more employees) like Salesforce and Dell have held memberships at the co-working spaces in the past, WeWork started making a concerted effort to tailor its spaces to these types of workers about a year ago.

Sinclair attributes the jump in «401 (k),» in part, to employers» efforts to attract job candidates and to the shift towards 401 (k) plans from retirement programs like pensions over the past decade.

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.

The role means not only will she be handing out the awards like past Mr. and Ms. Golden Globes, but it also entails representing and speaking out about the Hollywood Foreign Press Association's charitable efforts from the past year.

In the past, an international body like the WJC was clearly necessary to coordinate Jewish efforts in, say, the campaign against the oppression of Jews in the Soviet Union.

Food charities in the past have reported that efforts to redistribute surplus food have been held back due to a number of obstacles, such as the lack of infrastructure and storage facilities like refrigeration units required to safely transport and store meat and dairy, or confusing «best before» dates on food packaging that lead retailers to throw out food when it is still safely edible instead of marking it for redistribution.

its not like all our efforts have been paying off in other competitions save the F.a cups past!

We've seen it before in seasons past and while players like Giroud are more busy acting the goat on the pitch and acting like they have just won the world cup rather than equalizing for a draw then players like Alexis are gonna walk out the front door because he wants to win and knows that it takes more effort and commitment to win the league than acheiving a draw with Bournmouth.

While your ex-fiancé may have spoiled you with flowers every Friday, your new beau may not need to know that because he / she will just feel insecure — like he / she is being compared with this past partner or that his / her current efforts are lacking somehow.

that, over the past six months, the agency has redoubled its efforts to reach business executives, commercial real estate developers, corporate site selectors, and other decision makers on social networks like Twitter and LinkedIn as part of a broader commitment to attracting and retaining businesses in the state.

While there has been substantial progress in some cancer control efforts in the past several decades, like reductions in smoking and increased utilization of cancer screening, progress in some areas is lagging, according to a new report.

High - stakes lawsuits, including ones filed by former players against the NFL, have added to the pressure to come up with methods for diagnosing and tracking the disorder in living people, but such efforts have just crossed the starting line, researchers said last week at a traumatic brain injury conference in Washington, D.C. Only in the past month or so have they arrived at a consensus about what CTE looks like in postmortem brain tissue, findings presented this week in Washington, D.C., at the American Academy of Neurology meeting.

Like sitting meditation, it can be difficult to keep the mind on track and not jump into the past or the future, but with any activity you do during your day — make an effort to presently experience what you are partaking in, and continue that practice to further gain attunement.

In other words, if you'd like to see more benefit from the effort you put in and are starting TRT, workout sessions may produce better results than you've gotten in the past.

Like women and grannies of the past, I spend considerable effort in the summer and fall getting ready for winter.

In the past, my road trip outfits were definitely comfort over style and while I still like to ensure what I'm wearing is as comfortable as possible — I try to put a little more effort into what I'm wearing because you really don't know where you'll end up or what blog post picture opportunities will come up!

Due to the demographics of our member base, a high proportion have been divorced or widowed, and have been hurt in the past, which can make them more vulnerable to suspicious behaviour like «Romance Scams», so we make a big effort to support our members and make sure they feel, and are, safe, both online and offline.

Alpha House hits a few notes of inspired satire — like the bowl of American flag lapel pins the senators keep on the kitchen counter — but Trudeau's been more biting and much funnier elsewhere, past TV efforts like Tanner ’88 and the malaise - infected Doonesbury Special included.

Even the host, Jimmy Kimmel, and the presenters reigned in their political remarks and social commentary — expect to pat themselves on the back for how wonderfully were changing the world through their efforts like the Times Up and Me Too movements, and their past criticism of the Oscars being too «white».

It is tricky pulling off the plethora of combos in the game, however if you put in the effort and can get past the camera issues, you'll be swinging your sword like a true professional.

For directors like Christopher Nolan and Steven Spielberg who tend to work on a massive scale with even larger budgets it takes more time and effort to turn in that final product, which makes it quite surprising that Ridley Scott has become as efficient at delivering a steady flow of features in the past few years.

Almost everyone involved in the film has given Maximum Effort the past two years, maintaining the highest level of super secrets, like how David Blaine catches bullets in his mouth.

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.

The edgy humor of past Gunn efforts like

In the past, even his lesser efforts have usually contained some element to make them worth considering — even a disaster like «The Curse of the Jade Scorpion» featured that hilarious supporting turn by Charlize Theron as a femme fatale for the ages — but other than Vittorio Storaro's reliably stunning cinematography, there is nothing alone those lines here.

It becomes clear, then, that the entirety of The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1's opening two - thirds could've easily been condensed into a five minute prologue, with the movie unable to overcome its pervasively worthless feel until well past the one - hour mark - after which point filmmaker Lawrence offers up an admittedly exciting stretch detailing the rebels» SEAL Team Six - like efforts to free several prisoners.

Just keep swimming the blue tang fish told us, well... looks like she took her own words to heart as she recruits the help of her friends in an effort to unlock her past and reconnect with her family.

After a year that saw relative disappointments when compared to past efforts from comedy luminaries like Christopher Guest («Family Tree») and Gervais («Derek»), «Hello Ladies» is the exception in that it not only seems likely to satisfy critical fans of its star / director but could create legions of new ones.

Findings like this demonstrate the need to keep race and past and present racial discrimination an explicit part of conversations and policy efforts related to schools, transportation, health, and housing.

Rubinstein and McCarthy write in the Working Paper that «over the past 16 years, federal efforts to improve public education have focused on market reforms like charter schools and voucher programs.

School vouchers and related efforts like tax credits, scholarship grants, and education savings accounts, have become popular tools of the education reform movement's agenda during the past few decades.

Like healthcare reform efforts of the past, education reform movements intended to improve teaching quality often focus on the extreme minorities of the performance distribution.

Over the past several years, in part due to federal grant programs like Race to the Top and other federal and state policies, states and districts have made extensive efforts to improve or refine their teacher and leader evaluation systems.

My car's 1.6 - liter engine, which has turned more than 131,000 miles, revs past 6,000 rpm, momentarily drowning out the note of the new Miata's 2.0 - liter as I bound over a crest and cut a corner like Alex Zanardi in effort to keep pace.

The good news is, the A6 is a better effort than the A7 - but once you get past all the technology, what's it like to drive?

I also don't refuse books that are given to me free, as many self - publishers already know — though I prefer to buy them because I'm a hard - working author and I like to support other authors, AND I will only accept ones from those who try to make an effort to get to know me first — but I won't guarantee that I'll read them if I can't get past the first couple of chapters, and they will receive the same hard criticism that I give all books, that is if I give a review.

This wasn't a boast that other e-book retail startups could make over the past few years, like the failed, publisher - backed effort Bookish.

«We've been keeping our eyes on Motorola's plans to sink its claws into the enterprise market for at least the past couple of months, and it looks like the company is ramping up its efforts with a rugged Android tablet fit for the workplace.»

However, I would like to point out that authors with a wide circle of online acquaintances to whom they've provided content, or even attention, in the past would possibly find themselves in that enviable situation, as their online friends flock to support their latest efforts (not necessarily as a result of any pressure, implicit or explicit, from the author in question).

While the new price points have not yet been disclosed, it looks like the first move in carriers» efforts to clear their shelves actually started this past Tuesday.

Over the past three years, there have been increasing negative efforts aimed at limiting — or, in some cases, eliminating — the public's ability to choose the pet of their liking.

In my effort to live like a Bogotáno, I joined some friends for a day trip outside of the city to explore the country's colonial past, and head to Zipaquirá and its main attraction, an underground cathedral created in a former salt mine.

It's a lot to remember, and getting the knack entails much flailing around like a tortoise on its back, not to mention a conscious effort to ignore apple - cheeked Norwegian children swishing past with innate poise.

I just finished Tales of Berseria, the story keep me going, since the game design is inferior to past entries, while combat is more streamlined like with Nier you either make little to no effort or even just leave autoplay, OR you get constantly one shot which if it were playing coop it'll make sense, but constantly reviving the cpu allies, got tiresome, also I might not get it, but it doesn't make sense to me that you get more experience points in lower difficulties, especially when enemy levels are doubled on higher difficulties.

Some are easier to pursue, say for example Ann who only requires your kindness to be at level 2 to fully max out her social link, while others like Makoto require more personal effort with a level three knowledge to even begin rank one of your relationship and max charm to get past rank six.

The result is a game that controls much more like «old Tony Hawk» than the past decade's efforts, even with quite a few innovations.

In years past the NCAA games have felt like they were playing the role of the forgotten older sibling in compared to the effort placed on the Madden football franchise.