Sentences with phrase «previous efforts such»

That would put it at over four times the sales of the Wii U and ahead of previous efforts such as Gamecube and N64, though well short of Wii's 100 million unit haul.

Not exact matches

Though the timing of the Swiss decision proved a surprise, most foreign exchange experts thought the peg would have to be abandoned, just as previous such efforts had.

Mr. Ettinger simply asks why such a possibility can not be considered as an extension of all previous efforts to save and extend life when threatened by disease.

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.

According to political scientist Michael McDonald, this defies previous patterns, suggesting Democratic voter mobilization efforts — such as mail balloting — could counter the GOP «enthusiasm» advantage and benefit Senator Kay Hagan.

Previous efforts using BCIs have focused on moving computer screen icons such as cursors, but Miranda's team sought to achieve the much more complex task of enabling users to play and compose music.

I ask John Baez if such efforts are as hopeless as previous perpetual - motion machines.

«Previous studies have shown that black people are more likely to have a poor sense of smell than whites and yet may be less likely to develop Parkinson's disease,» said Chen, who is part of MSU's Global Impact Initiative, an effort to help accelerate research in key areas affecting the world such as health and energy.

Inkjet printing of photonic crystals onto a surface is cheaper, but previous efforts have struggled to integrate responsive photonic crystal inks into such a system.

Many previous efforts to overhaul the TSCA failed after lawmakers couldn't strike a consensus among competing interest groups, such as chemical companies and environmental groups.

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.

Yeah, that's what we thought, but those previous efforts are generally such testosterone - driven sausage parties, you can be forgiven for forgetting if any actresses were involved.

The only nominee that now looks out of place in such company is The Towering Inferno, a big budget, star - studded disaster movie from producer Irwin Allen, whose previous effort The Poseidon Adventure was more deserving of such acknowledgement.

It's his second such stop - motion film, but it'd be incorrect to label his previous effort, Fantastic Mr. Fox, as a children's film, just as it would be to call his child - focused romance Moonrise...

#ad #He still includes a few trademark plot twists, but realizations do not dawn on the audience with such force as they did in his previous efforts, The Sixth Sense and Unbreakable.

Cruz also shocks; after exhibiting all the expressiveness of a block of wood in her previous stateside efforts, who knew she was capable of such a scenery - plowing, over-the-top-and-into-earth's - orbit performance.

He further recommends that judges and legislators be guided in their efforts by a «successful remedies model» to be drawn from previous adequacy litigation — perhaps tempting if such «successful» models actually existed.

Previous studies of school - leader efficacy have measured the effects of various demographic variables, but without much effort to explain why such variables might influence sense of efficacy.

The School Improvement Grant program attempts to accomplish what previous reform efforts have failed to do: make a real difference for children facing the dire challenges of poverty, such as unstable housing, neighborhood violence and parents with limited education.

So while BMW has M, Mercedes - Benz has AMG, and Audi has S and RS, Lexus has been pushing F. And I have to give Lexus credit for a couple of its F efforts, such as the previous IS - F with the 5.0 - liter V8 and, of course, the LFA supercar with the Formula One - derived V10.

And as I mentioned in a previous post, trade publishers such as Penguin Random House and HarperCollins are joining the effort to make ebooks used in the school market accessible, which points to larger shares of their general lists being certified accessible.

As such, she chose to transition to the retail side of real estate financing in effort to work closer with families, veterans, and those who had previous financial hardships to achieve their goals of home ownership.

That being said, there was a conscious effort to retain her same presence she had during the previous games, as fans have held her in such a high regard since her debut in Uncharted 2: Among Thieves.

Previous efforts — such as the multimillion - dollar effort to drill into Lake Ellsworth in 2012 — have failed.

To dismiss reports of previous melt as being purely regional seems to ignore the fact that the previous records, such as they are, are limited in scope and uniformity -LCB- almost rather anecdotal in nature -RCB-, unlike today's program of a broad systemic effort.

Such mobilization of climate finance should represent a progression beyond previous efforts.

Mr. Zuckerberg said that he's responsible for what happens on Facebook «at the end of the day» but noted the firm's previous efforts effectively prevented such incidents from happening post-2014.

Or will this gun reform effort fade like the ones did after horrific previous events such as Sandy Hook?

The new position diverges from the utility's previous efforts to attract companies using large amounts of electricity, such as bitcoin miners, Remy observed.

This program reduced the high mortality rate of inner - city infants from summer diarrhea when previous efforts of private agencies had failed.5 In the late 20th century, as funding for public health nurses has declined relative to the need, home - visitation programs have focused on families with special problems such as premature or low - birth - weight infants, children with developmental delay, teenage parents, and families at risk for child abuse or neglect.6