Sentences with phrase «persistent efforts at»

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One of those efforts, which he calls «Find Your Words,» is aimed at combating the persistent stigma around mental health issues and involves «showing people that there is a way to ask for help and to say you have a problem.»

Lynch leaves office following a nearly two - year tenure marked by massacres carried out by violent extremists, including the shootings at a nightclub in Orlando, Florida; persistent hacking from overseas, including Russian government efforts to meddle in the U.S. presidential election; and an election - season investigation into Hillary Clinton's email server that entangled the Justice Department in presidential politics and led to criticism for her ill - timed meeting on an airport tarmac with former President Bill Clinton.

I want to keep working at solving the problem that, notwithstanding the great efforts we've made in Massachusetts over a couple of decades in setting high goals, measuring progress, holding people accountable, and investing and building the capacity of the system to deliver, we've still been — however successful we've been comparatively — unsuccessful at: closing persistent achievement gaps.

Despite a decades - long effort to restructure schools — in part, at least, to give parents a greater voice in school decisions — we see little evidence that teachers perceive much influence from parents, or from students.48 This outcome probably reflects the wellknown and persistent challenges teachers and administrators face in creating authentic relationships with parents for school - improvement purposes.

I emphasize «at this point» because Geller is one of the most cautiously persistent of our interview subjects in naming these efforts experimentation.

Cats are efficient at removing these mites and it may take a persistent effort to find them in some cases, though.

For the moment, such efforts face challenges, including the persistent inability of computer climate simulations to reliably replicate climate patterns at the scale of states and cities.

Reply to Nick Stokes: I'm a long - term fan of Steve McIntyre but like Ron Graf I'm also a fan of Nick Stokes» persistent efforts to present the orthodox or consensus position in the best possible light — Nick is invariably courteous and relevant and doesn't seem to take offence at attempts to put him down.

Debt collection complaints are prevalent at the state and national level, and range from harassment and wrongful threats of criminal charges to persistent efforts to collection debts not owed by the More»

Despite continuous efforts at NSRLP to bring forward the voices of (intelligent, polite, reasoned, thoughtful) members of the public, this is an astonishingly pervasive and persistent assumption.

At least long enough to understand exactly who they'll be sticking it to if their persistent efforts are successful: Their own constituents, women in small Michigan cities or rural Michigan counties with few options for care, tens of thousands of whom who visit Planned Parenthood — in Petoskey or Brighton or Big Rapids or Jackson or Livonia — each year.