Sentences with phrase «previous efforts at»

But the patchwork nature of Canadian securities regulation, combined with a lack of resources and weak laws, have doomed previous efforts at increasing enforcement.

Previous efforts at this legislation have gone through Parliament more or less unopposed; and so too, I suspect, will this.

Continuing previous efforts at greening how people get to the Open, either to play or spectate, 60 % of all vehicles transporting players are now hybrids (this year supplied by Mercedes Benz) and 58 % of spectators are now arriving via subway or commuter rail.

Most previous efforts at solar - powered phones had the cells on the back, meaning that the device had to be facedown to get a charge and that the cells, being external, could more easily be damaged.

Previous efforts at early detection have focused on beta amyloid, a protein found in abnormally high amounts in the brains of people with Alzheimer's disease.

Scott Lindell, director of the Scientific Aquaculture Program at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, notes that previous efforts at ranching have been scuppered by political and social arguments about who the fish belong to.

Previous efforts at fish ranching have met with limited success.

The experiment will dwarf previous efforts at measuring birds» tastes in food.

Pastor Dayo Oluwafunmi of the Christ Apostolic Church Gbomi area while speaking with Governor Aregbesola during the tour commended the governor for what he called the government's previous efforts at preventing what used to be the annual disaster before the advent of the Aregbesola administration.

A look at Wal - Mart's previous efforts at global expansion provides good context for this latest foray.

The actor, who scrapped a previous effort at an autobiography in 2007, has...

Unlike Treasure's previous effort at working on another company's property with Silpheed, Gradius V is a great success.

Quite possibly; after all, while the previous effort at a movie adaption fell through, Nintendo has since expressed interest in expanding their properties, most recently when Nintendo's own Shigeru Miyamoto revealing he'd like to see anime based on Nintendo works (Star Fox, Yoshi and Pikmin were cited as examples).

Not exact matches

This is a significant step up from regulators» previous efforts to improve the industry's disclosure of hidden or hard - to - understand charges on their statements, and it could at last move the needle on fees.

While Reddit's move is controversial — skeptics point out that salaries may be based on an applicant's previous pay, which may or may not have been fair — it's nonetheless a concerted effort to lessen the disparity, and one that seems to be raising awareness for the issue at large.

My colleagues at the McKinsey Global Institute, our firm's business and economics research arm, have analyzed previous downturns and found that when individuals and governments focus on paying down debt, these efforts curb economic growth for three to five years.

Having beaten back previous efforts to update the rules, Wall Street now has more at stake.

The USO fell after the initiation of Quantitative Easing III by Ben Bernanke as the flood of US Dollars overwhelmed speculators who piled into the oil ETF, betting it would rise at it had after previous economic stimulus efforts.

Our previous efforts were aimed at a local nursing home.

Apparently, the government had been training chefs at its culinary training facilities to send abroad for the previous decade, but this project formalized and enhanced these efforts significantly.

I watched him in his previous club in Germany so am not surprised at his effort.

When Klopp was hired, many predicted Lallana and Lovren would be among those to shine under the German tactician due to his previous efforts with a similar calibre of players at Borussia Dortmund.

This stage represents the final effect of the event on the clinician, who may leave the clinical profession altogether, stay in her previous role but never function at her previous performance level, or thrive by taking lessons learned and working to ensure that deficits in the process led to the outcome are addressed in effort to decrease the likelihood that such an event will occur.

I felt the urge to push twice, but unlike my previous births where the pushing stage took enormous efforts and strength out of me and were quite painful, here I felt no pain at all.

Still, an improvement over previous GOP efforts — at least it's topical and fun.

That's a familiar response from Malliotakis, who has similarly refused to offer a position on previous Republican efforts at dramatically changing Obamacare in July, June and May.

At the same time, there does not appear to be much appetite to allow voters to switch enrollment from a blank to membership in order to participate in primary, nor has there been much of an effort in previous years to open the state's primaries to those voters not enrolled as Democrats or Republicans.

The governor has nibbled at New York's multi-layered governing structure for years, but most previous efforts — including voter referendums — have yielded little fruit.

Details of the complex, called the SUNY Poly Institute for Public Health Technology, provide a view into previous efforts by the Cuomo administration to explore putting a life sciences and biotech hub in the Capital Region anchored at SUNY Poly.

As the de Blasio administration seeks to meet its ambitious affordable housing goals and, in that effort, pass significant changes to the city's zoning rules, Diaz Jr. has emerged as the loudest opponent of the plans, further ruffling feathers at City Hall after several previous high - profile disagreements this year.

Researchers established the first camp here in 1989, at the start of an international effort that drilled the 3,053 - meter - long Greenland Ice Sheet Project - 2 ice core, retrieving a record of climate over the previous 110,000 years.

«These findings build on previous studies into disproportionate rates of diabetes prevalence and hold important clues for efforts aimed at preventing diabetes and better managing the disease,» said Jane Bolin, JD, PhD, BSN, co-researcher and director of the Southwest Rural Health Research Center at Texas A&M.

Indeed, compared with a previous unionization effort in 2006, which encountered opposition and ended with the withdrawal of the union's petition, «Everything has gone fairly smoothly,» says Matthew O'Connor, a bioengineering postdoc and chief union organizer at the University of California (UC), Berkeley, who also serves as president of Berkeley's postdoctoral scholars association.

Previous brain - machine interface systems have made it possible for people to control robots, cursors, or prosthetics with conscious thought, but they often take a lot of effort and concentration, says José del R. Millán, a biomedical engineer at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland, who develops brain - machine interface systems that don't need to be implanted into the brain.

«Our study suggests that if we had looked at whether or not Zika would be a problem using previous epidemiological evidence, we would not have wasted energy or effort worrying about tourists getting Zika,» said Robert Snyder, the study's lead author and program manager for the Center for Global Public Health.

Previous efforts to create a mono - wheel that is stable when stationary, like the Gyrover, developed by Ben Brown at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, have a second wheel that spins within the first to act as a gyroscope.

The effort will cover 10 times more of the sky than previous programs, scanning at least five times more of the spectrum a hundred times faster and with 50 times greater sensitivity than past efforts.

«Previous efforts are not accurate or robust enough,» said Kenneth Cassman, an agronomist at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln, and a co-leader of the atlas.

They also offer a possible solution to a problem that has dogged previous efforts to address obesity at the neuronal level.

Another component of the project is that the researchers can compare the data they are collecting to the data they collected during a previous effort in California, looking at waterfowl distributions from 1995 to 2007 that were closely tied to the availability of water.

«Previous efforts to create sequential shape changing components involved placing multiple heaters at specific regions in a component and then controlling the on - and - off time of individual heaters,» explained Jerry Qi, a professor in the George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering at Georgia Tech.

Previous research efforts by the Resuscitation Outcomes Consortium found that paramedics who deliver defibrillator shocks within three minutes of arriving at the scene of a cardiac arrest can boost survival, and that the depth of chest compressions and the rate at which they were applied make a significant impact on survival and recovery of patients.

This effort builds on previous investigations, such as the USGS Central Valley Regional Aquifer System and Analysis (CV - RASA) project and several other groundwater studies in the Valley completed by Federal, State and local agencies at differing scales.

The discretionary part of the agency's budget is still subject to OMB approval, so priority setting (for example, in the allocation of staff among activities and divisions) continues to be part of the annual appropriations process.169 Moreover, the President's budget may propose changes to mandatory spending, proposals that OMB has by definition approved.170 At least in the current and previous administrations, OMB has required agencies to submit, as part of their annual budget requests, a description of any effort to take discretionary action that would increase mandatory spending, and has strictly limited its approval of these efforts.171

This proclamation linked many previous conservation efforts to produce the largest protected marine area of its kind at the time.

Previous efforts to link Western wildfires with climate change have hinted at a profound relationship but led to unconvincing results, largely because long lists of factors influence ignition and wildfire properties.

Working collaboratively with his cast, which features several prominent independent filmmakers, Joe Swanberg follows up his previous efforts, «Kissing on the Mouth» and «LOL», with this delicate look at friendship, ambition, and the pursuit of happiness.

At first, I wasn't sure about this album, I thought it was a lil» bit borin» comparin» it to their previous efforts, which were made for dance clubs and ecstasy.

Vinson, whose previous starring effort came with Step Up 3D, gets to show off a few more nifty moves, as she runs, slides, ducks, and parries while the masked baddies go booga - booga at predictable intervals.

Tepid reviews and dismal box office performance put this movie at odds with the directors» previous efforts, but fans of the film will nevertheless be pleased to find the DVD and Blu - ray release on store shelves this Tuesday, January 26.