Sentences with phrase «persistent efforts of»

Thanks to the persistent efforts of the Kentucky Innocence Project, Kerry Porter was exonerated after serving almost 15 years behind bars for a murder he did not commit.

«The new series was made possible by persistent efforts of a few Climate Auditers to secure access to the data series and analysis carried out by Dr Jones.

Generations of breeders can thank the funds and persistent efforts of those who pursued and supported the research that resulted in the DNA based test.

Well, the tireless, professional and persistent efforts of legitimate independent writers, the vocal advocacy of groups such as the Alliance of Independent Authors, and the advent of vendors who sprang up to serve independent authors, upped the reputation of this community.

Through the persistent efforts of dignified Col. Bullard (played by Terrence Howard in Richard Widmark mode) who pressures military brass stateside to deploy the segregated unit, they advance to escorting grateful bomber crews, dogfighting in technically advanced P - 51s, and eventually confronting German jet aircraft in a decisive battle.

«But the best evidence of the value of that partnership lies in the persistent efforts of our political opponents to disrupt it.

William Genne gives this definition of Christian love: «The overwhelming desire and persistent effort of two persons to create for each other the conditions under which each can become the person God meant him to be.»

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Attempting to raise funding for their effort to develop a novel therapy for persistent viral infections, the co-founders, who've been best friends since they grew up together in Philadelphia, were on the verge of giving up and heading back to the east coast when Peter Thiel personally persuaded them to stay in town.

While Schultz's initiative will impact only a fraction of the 5.6 million young people who are neither working nor studying, it is a worthy effort to attack one of America's most persistent problems.

While the most persistent threat is to our electrical power grids, a new mapping effort by the US Geological Survey (USGS) shows how the hazards of geomagnetic storms are not the same all over Earth.

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.»

Innovative minds and persistent efforts have led to unprecedented collaboration between the public and private sectors, resulting in the successful completion of important infrastructure projects that otherwise would have been unaffordable.

Martin Bailey tells of his persistent efforts by email to convince New York Times editors to change their customary one - sided reference to «the Temple Mount» to include both «Temple Mount!

The acute sufferings of that time brought to a head the misgivings about God's providence in history which had been aroused by long - continued misfortunes and disappointments; for these sufferings not only fell upon a people which had made sincere and persistent efforts to observe the law of God in its corporate life, but they fell most heavily upon the best members of the community.

But balance and proportion between the different constituents of love is not automatic, and is usually attained only within that persistent effort which is one of the joys and responsibilities which lovers share.35

Mormons believe the following about God: He has not always been the Supreme Being of the universe, but attained that status through righteous living and persistent effort.

Everything has its cost and the cost of a closer relationship, with better skills, is persistent effort.

Process theism involves the persistent effort to conceive God's activity primarily in terms of persuasion.

By the grace of God and by persistent, devoted effort in faith and love, miracles of spiritual, moral, and social transformation still are wrought.

Before the impact of Freud's rediscovery of the irrational in man, one could talk about man without taking account of his persistent efforts to justify himself by conscious and unconscious means.

This can happen as a result of planned and persistent effort, choosing the goals that attract both and planning strategy for moving toward them, remembering that there needs to be a balance among the various dimensions of intimacy in order to enrich the relationship and prevent any one facet of the relationship from being overloaded.

What have been the practical consequences of these persistent efforts to divide Korea?

But a persistent and pervasive distrust of all systems is either only another system in itself or the effort is self - defeating.

A faint notion of the divine is dawning, which never is revealed to mere effort, not even the most persistent.

They were persistent with their efforts of snatching the German midfielder but were rebuffed by Arsenal twice.

Ramsey hasn't been developing as well as he should and his persistent disrespect towards the defending aspect of his job would be enough for me to sell him on football manager (and that is why I am not a real manager lol), sell him and promote youngsters that will put the right kind of effort into the team.

Dutchess County Government is persistent in its efforts to confront cybersecurity threats and ensure continuity of operations in the event of an emergency.

One of the traders, who pleaded anonymity, said the policemen came to his shop and those of four others, arrested them, and that after persistent efforts to know why they were being arrested, they were told they stole the brain box of a car.

The land lease plan is part of NextGen NYCHA, an effort to reverse the cash - strapped authority's persistent budget gaps.

The fall in the Ukip share may reflect the recent comparative decline in publicity for the party's leader, Nigel Farage, and Downing Street's persistent efforts to neutralise Ukip's appeal by countering with a series of strong messages on immigration, welfare and a referendum on UK membership of the European Union.

An analysis by New Scientist finds scant evidence of data abuse, but does show persistent efforts to suppress work by climate sceptics.

Persistent, latent reservoirs of the virus make efforts to cure infection difficult.

Gilbert - Diamond points out that unlike other parenting strategies that require persistent effort and vigilance, parents can make a difference by simply keeping televisions out of their children's bedrooms.

Instead, they are persistent and constant in their efforts, which means making a lot of sacrifices and struggling to adopt new habits, and those things pay off in the long run.

Today let these 9 stories of persistent determination inspire you to stick with your efforts in spite of the detour.

Only strong, committed, persistent and focused human effort will accomplish the goal of eliminating these abominations — the kind of strength, commitment, persistence and focus that only animal foods rich in cholesterol, zinc, good fats and vitamin B12 can sustain.

In the last six months we've collected a significant amount of feedback, and decided to concentrate the efforts of the development team on combating one of the most persistent issues plaguing the online dating industry in the recent years — Spam.

1996's The Darien Gap followed — a feature - length effort about a young man (Lyn Voss, portraying himself) whose persistent dreams of filming the great Patagonian sloth prevent him from sustaining a relationship with the woman he loves (Sandi Carroll).

Even as various reform efforts have sought to address the inequities of educational outcomes in the United States — leading to some improvements in specific areas — deep and persistent gaps in opportunity and achievement remain.

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.

They've learned that if you offer players just the right amount of challenge — setting goals that are ambitious but achievable and allowing them to «level up» once they've demonstrated their mastery of discrete tasks — they will respond eagerly, making focused and persistent efforts to improve their skills and rise to new levels.

In the wake of persistent membership losses, the National Education Association began a review of its organizational structure in an effort to improve efficiency and cut costs.

«The contention that unions play a role in misallocating resources, sending them away from where they are most needed, is a distraction from efforts to address the persistent nature of achievement gaps between advantaged and disadvantaged students.»

So while «efforts over recent decades to recruit more minority teachers and place them in schools serving disadvantaged and minority students have been very successful,» the report states, «there continues to be a persistent racial - ethnic parity gap between the percentage of minority students and the percentage of minority teachers in the U.S. school system.»

PCC's efforts are focused on policy and practice solutions to the ongoing crisis of low college completion rates, persistent achievement gaps that exist along racial and socioeconomic lines, and college affordability.

CCSSO supports school improvement in states by fostering a sense of urgency among chiefs that the SEA plays a central role in improving persistently low - performing schools, equipping all states with strategies and approaches to meet the needs of all children, and fast - tracking efforts in states who are willing to take bold, relentless action to address persistent low - performance.

To achieve this vision, combined state, district, and school efforts must close significant and persistent achievement gaps, which occur when one student group statistically outperforms another.18 However, data from international, national, and state - level sources all confirm that nonwhite, disabled, poor, and non-English-speaking students perform more poorly than their peers outside of these groups.19

«While the overall trend lines are positive, these persistent and significant gaps are a reminder of the importance of the commonwealth's efforts to improve instruction and raise achievement in schools challenged by poverty and other impediments to learning,» Secretary of Education Anne Holton said.

I would say that you need to be persistent with your writing efforts by writing more books, ensure you create different formats for your book (print, digital, audio, translations), and do a lot of marketing via reviews, social media, and business cards / bookmarks, advertising your books.

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