Sentences with phrase «previous failed effort»

It all started with a tweet to Musk, who had initially posted a video montage of SpaceX's previous failed efforts entitled «How Not to Land a Orbital Rocket Booster.»

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In May, the PCAOB disclosed that E&Y had failed to make sufficient efforts to address previous PCAOB criticisms, which included, among others, «apparent failure to appropriately challenge management» and failure to test loan loss reserves.

Luther then related how Cardinal Cajetan failed to make peace with him and how Miltitz, whose previous efforts were defeated by Eck, had now tried again by suggesting to the Augustinians that Luther should write to the Pope himself.

The town board authorized the trap program in April after a public hearing on a proposed law that would allow cats to be taken to shelters if complaints are received from property owners, and while they unanimously backed the motion, there was some skepticism among councilmen that the process would be successful, especially as a previous TNR effort in the neighborhood had failed.

Like the profile of Hoon and Hewitt themselves, that weaselly formulation may have sapped confidence that this move would succeed where so many previous efforts had failed.

is RECOGNIZING that the mayoral control «reform» — like previous efforts to change the system's governance without clearly articulating the educational purpose of the reform or facing society's deep systemic problems of poverty and racism — still leaves the city with schools that fail to meet the academic, social and emotional needs of our students;

This validation may succeed in initiating change where previous efforts have failed.

But the most ambitious effort yet to find traces of Yersinia in the remains of Black Death victims has failed, and the researchers involved argue that a previous study that did report finding Yersinia was flawed.

And it seems unlikely that this year's abbreviated legislative session will produce successful legislation to roll back the marquee climate rules when previous efforts to do so have failed.

Previous efforts to pinpoint localized waves had failed due to the complexity of considering all possible waves, but Mayboroda and Filoche found a way to reduce the problem to a single mathematical expression.

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.

Previous domestic efforts to establish the tree in the South, which came to a peak in the early 1980s, failed as winter freezes scythed dead swaths through experimental plantations.

We performed BLASTp searches with individual protein sequences of human perilipins that generated no significant hits to Nematoda sequences in the UniProt database, consistent with previous efforts that failed to identify a perilipin - related protein in this phylum.

Though it performed comparably in France and less significant European markets, The Past otherwise failed to recreate the box office impact of Farhadi's previous effort, its $ 1.3 million North American gross a far cry from A Separation's $ 7.1 M.

I wrote about them on November 22, 2013, noting how SIG was following the script of previous failed turnaround efforts.

Falling into the same trap that had ensnarled countless previous reformers, the administration contended that generations of failed turnaround efforts were the consequence of insufficient funding and the wrong strategies.

Famed business - school thinker Clayton Christensen was splendidly profiled in The New Yorker a few weeks back, which set me to reflecting on his influential meditation on K - 12 education, Disrupting Class, the 2008 book (co-authored with Michael Horn and Curtis Johnson) that startled the edu - cracy with its bold prediction that half of all high school courses will be delivered online by 2019 and its explanation that technology will produce the «disruptive innovation» in education that previous reform efforts have failed to bring about.

Of particular interest is EM's claim on its web site: «Previous efforts to reform mathematics instruction failed because they did not adequately consider the working lives of teachers.»

Backers of the latest high - profile push for common standards believe it can succeed where previous national - standards efforts have failed, partly because it comes at standards from a different direction.

Previous efforts to develop adequate measures of leader - efficacy beliefs have failed to produce instruments completely suitable for our purposes.

Sen. Luther Olsen, R - Ripon, chairman of the Senate Education Committee, agreed that the formula is flawed, but previous efforts to make changes have failed to yield a better system.

Unlike previous federal efforts, it combined specific performance goals for all students and high - stakes consequences for schools and districts for failing to meet those goals.

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.

7.85 - inch display and Android 4.2.2 in this latest effort HP has quietly released another mid-range Android tablet — that's actually on sale now — that like previous efforts fails somewhat to capture our imagination.

Efforts failed at previous sites.

Efforts failed at two previous sites.

These NPCs are strange enemies left over from previous, failed, colonization efforts.

Thus like previous IPCC reports AR5 fails to include even the track records of the acceleration of those six potentially major non-linear positive feedbacks that scientists in the field observe to be active, let alone including any rational estimate of their combined potential to offset society's efforts at emissions control.

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

Chrome apps may fizzle and fail, just as the previous Chrome apps effort wasn't very compelling.

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

1964: Despite previous failed attempts in the 1930s and 1950s, efforts are renewed to establish a center in Peoria.