Sentences with phrase «powerful efforts on»

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An international listing of Aramco was seen as the centerpiece of the powerful Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman's efforts to reshape the Saudi economy and reduce the nation's reliance on oil revenues.

They'll also vote on a proposal requiring it to report on its efforts to restrict emissions of methane, a powerful greenhouse gas.

His actions then represented a key milepost on the Texas Republican's path to becoming a powerful House committee chairman and a pivotal player in the GOP effort to reduce financial regulation in the Trump era.

On its own, PPC was a powerful tool, but if you were willing to put some effort into your campaigns, you could produce game - changing results.

It's one of the reasons parents worry about the company their children keep because we know that we can drive all our efforts to instil good values but the association that our children forge with groups of their choice will often have a very powerful influence on their own attitude and outlook.

Made a good save from Costa in the first minute but that was the high point of his evening as he later allowed Willian's powerful but very saveable effort to go straight through him — did make a couple of decent stops late on.

Cesc Fabregas and Willian both had a quiet game and the key moments of inspiration came from Batshuayi, who had a powerful low effort well saved by goalkeeper Tom Starke, and Marco Alonso, whose thunderous drive in first - half added time ended a poor 45 minutes on a high.

Andros Townsend blasted a powerful effort just over the top soon afterwards, but Chelsea were soon back on the attack and Willian forced Hennessey into a low save when he tried his luck from distance.

Samuel Eto'o gave the home fans a scare collected the ball in a central position on 70 minutes but the striker's powerful effort was too close to Liverpool's stand - in goalkeeper Brad Jones.

By understanding the powerful and often conflicting forces at work as you take on fatherhood and a family, you'll increase your prospects for pulling through and coming out the other side a stronger man, with a stronger marriage, and a family that makes all your efforts and sacrifices incredibly worthwhile.

If the UK government chooses to pursue pro-development policies, maintain its powerful and varied role on the word stage, and to make a concerted effort to change the tone of the political debate, then opportunities will emerge.

Delegates on April 13 voted unanimously to send donations to aid relief efforts in Japan following the powerful earthquake and tsunami that hit on March 11 and the nuclear damage that followed.

«It will be recalled that following relentless media attack on my person by the EFCC acting in concert with some powerful families with known ties to the government which culminated in the filing of phantom money laundering and corruption charges against me, I made spirited efforts to engage with relevant officials of government including the EFCC, the Office of the Attorney General of the Federation and the Presidency to furnish them with all the information in respect of the OPL 245 Settlement Agreement between the Federal Government of Nigeria and Malabu Oil & Gas Limited which was brokered by the administration of President Olusegun Obasanjo, GCFR.

Mayor Bill de Blasio, whose administration is facing multiple investigations over his campaign fundraising and efforts to help Democrats win the state Senate in 2014, argued Monday that he was being singled out by powerful, moneyed interests who don't want his agenda, focused on addressing income inequality, to move forward.

The National Rifle Association, the country's most powerful lobby group for gun rights, said Thursday that it would support an effort to restrict bump stocks — an unusual move for a group that has long pushed back on efforts to impose new firearms regulations.

Cuomo has «supported» efforts on the DREAM Act, campaign finance reform, and the Gender Expression Non-Discrimination Act (GENDA), but has not made powerful public or behind - the - scenes - efforts to enact them.

On Monday, the state Legislature's most powerful Republican said he was supportive of the Democrats» efforts to change Cuomo's policy.

«Our aggressive posture on DWI is an effort to really send a powerful message and get people to think twice about operating a vehicle while under the influence of alcohol or drugs.

A recent piece in the New York Times recalled the success of a popular study on powerful poses, and how efforts to replicate the research failed.

Kaushal's powerful mapping application on the video wall is just one result of that effort.

Building on the foundation laid by the Human Genome Project, Dr. Collins is now leading NHGRI's effort to ensure that this new trove of sequence data is translated into powerful tools and thoughtful strategies to advance biological knowledge and improve human health.

ties for researchers who could capitalize on the powerful new capabilities; bare - bones instrumentation efforts unable to move forward with technology developments; and operations funds inadequate to realize the scientific potential of the facility.

HIIT requires powerful effort — think 8 or 9 on the exertion scale — leaving your muscles stressed afterward.

That makes the skin one of the most powerful (and most overlooked) areas of the body to focus on not just for our beautifying and anti-aging efforts, but also for calming our nervous system, increasing oxytocin levels, and boosting our immunity.

George Clooney's charisma and powerful screen presence have never been more integral to a film, nor used in a more futile effort, than in THE AMERICAN, a virtually silent opus that trades on Clooney's unassailable ability to seduce the camera.

Oz the Great and Powerful, March 2013's effects - laden Disney extravaganza, arrived in the same mold with an accomplished director (Sam Raimi, who helmed Tobey Maguire's Spider - Man trilogy and the Evil Dead series long before that), a hefty price tag (kept down, with some effort, to $ 200 M, with another $ 100 M being spent on marketing), and a familiar title.

Poomaram review: An honest effort that evokes nostalgia Raid review: A powerful film on combating corruption The Square review: A pretentious creative fantasy 7 Days in Entebbe review: Dramatic but fails to thrill

Poomaram review: An honest effort that evokes nostalgia Raid review: A powerful film on combating corruption The Square review: A pretentious creative fantasy

February 28, 2018 • In a freewheeling talk with Republican and Democratic lawmakers on curtailing gun violence, President Trump appeared to throw his support behind efforts that are opposed by the powerful gun lobby.

He only needs four more stones to complete the set, and it will require efforts on Earth, in space and on Thanos» home planet to repel his fatal machinations as the despot grows more powerful with each stone he adds.

Notes of Praise: A private note left on a student's desk praising improved classroom effort is a powerful reinforcement, especially when the note is heartfelt.

However, in addition to our possibly feeble efforts to help engage students in feeling powerful, we can certainly emphasize offering choices — the kinds of homework they have to do, the types of presentations they can organize, the essay topics they can respond to, and so on.

Despite these obstacles, Russo contends the ED in ’08 ultimately set the groundwork for future advocacy efforts and had a powerful impact on the Obama administration's education agenda:

The unions» efforts to resist change, including powerful media campaigns to prevent citizen referenda on vouchers from being adopted, have been very effective.

Efforts to force teacher quality reform got a boost last year when the Los Angeles Times revealed the performance of the district's 11,500 elementary school teachers — by name — during its powerful, controversial and much - needed series on the low quality of the district's instruction.

Extended enterprise distribution technology is a powerful engine that is driven by sales and marketing efforts focused on building awareness and demand for courses.

«Alabama is definitely on the radar screen,» he said, though that state's powerful teachers» union is expected to resist the effort.

NEW YORK CITY The fall issue of the Annenberg Institute for School Reform's Voices in Urban Education is chock - full of powerful essays reflecting on disparities in school discipline and highlighting efforts to reform discipline practices in cities like Denver, Nashville, Oakland and Chicago.

CHICAGO AND NEW ORLEANS: Weighing in on the privatization effort in Little Rock, New Orleans parent Karran Harper Royal and Chicago grandmother Irene Robinson published a powerful column in the Arkansas Times warning about the harmful impact that privatization has had on their cities» schools and communities.

The education provisions sparked fierce resistance from lawmakers on both sides of the aisle and the powerful statewide teachers union, which mounted an almost nonstop effort over the past few days to block them.

The 50 stories gathered here, along with hundreds of others, were submitted as part of the Rethink Learning Now campaign, a national grassroots effort to change the tenor of our national conversation about schooling by shifting it from a culture of testing, in which we overvalue basic - skills reading and math scores and undervalue just about everything else, to a culture of learning, in which we restore our collective focus on the core conditions of a powerful learning environment, and work backwards from there to decide how best to evaluate and improve our schools, our educators, and the progress of our nation's schoolchildren.

Remember, this year's Los Angeles School Board race was the most expensive school board election in U.S. history, as the powerful charter lobby ran candidates in an ultimately successful effort to gain a pro-charter majority on the board in this city that is desperately fighting against charter expansion and the subsequent financial strangling of Los Angeles Unified School District.

The Yes effort backfired by creating their worst nightmare, uniting progressives and Democrats against charter schools and into a powerful grassroots force that will continue to fight charters across MA; «all of the momentum is on the [anti-charter] side now.»

It's not the most powerful, for sure, but not for lack of effort on the part of the V - 6, which eagerly revs and has a nice induction note.

For the time being - it doesn't take Nostradamus to predict a more powerful John Cooper Works model arriving at some stage - it's the Cooper S E Countryman All4 that offers the greatest urge, thanks to the combined efforts of the 1.5 - litre 3 - pot sending power to the front wheels, and an electric motor on the rear axle.

This tenth generation is an impressive effort for a number of reasons, not least of which is the list of «firsts» and «mosts» — it's the most powerful non-Si U.S. - spec Civic ever, it offers the most powerful base - model engine in the model's history, it's the first turbo Civic available for U.S. consumption, it has the most rigid chassis in the model's history, it's the most aerodynamic Civic ever... it goes on and on.

But remember, knowledge on its own isn't that powerful if you don't know how to implement, or if your website or book cover design is frustrating your efforts.

2) From the art department's gorgeous cover design, to editorial assistants and copy editors, to publicity, sales, and marketing; the team effort that has gone into the book, again, has made it much more powerful and polished than I could have done on my own.

This powerful combination allows authors to carry on with novel marketing and promotion efforts long after our time together has ended.

Her efforts to end the harassment of women, especially online, are also increasing and expanding, which is such a hopeful and powerful show of personal and professional integrity, especially when compared to the bullshit going on at Wikipedia right now.