Sentences with phrase «promising early efforts»

With a plot that seems more suitable to Charlie Sheen and Michael Douglas than Roy Rogers, Wall Street Cowboy is a major disappointment when compared to the star's promising earlier efforts.

Not exact matches

These efforts are early but also promising.

The idea here is that, in an effort to fight the Sunday Blues, you convince your friends to come to you with the promise of food — and at an early enough time so you can get many long, lazy, tipsy hours of hanging - out in and still be in bed by 10:30 p.m..

This is the wish that I have for all my children — that I can be a bridge during their early years in cultivating a relationship with their birth families (by making the effort to stay in lots of contact, keeping promises, etc.) so that when they are older (is 5 considered older?

The cash - strapped DNC also received criticism earlier this year after a Vice report revealed that they had not allocated any of the promised $ 10 million in funding to state Democratic parties for rebuilding efforts.

This was an action the governor promised to take after a broader legislative effort was blocked earlier this year by Republicans in the state Senate.

«An arms length relationship between the Tory leadership and the No campaign that meant Cameron was unable to stop the targeting of the politically toxic Nick Clegg and his broken promises Main AV could only be defeated if a large number of Labour supported voted to keep First Past The Post and from the earliest days of the campaign huge efforts were made to ensure the No campaign was genuinely cross-party»

So far, early efforts to treat the chronic inflammation with a drug in an animal model of traumatic brain injury have revealed promising results.

That movie — written and directed by Ryan Coogler — will be the first of the studio's prestige - aspiring efforts to hit the screen, and the early reports are promising.

At its most basic level, NCLB attempts to fulfill the promise of earlier efforts by putting in place specific implementation timelines for those states that wish to continue to receive federal aid.

In an effort to demonstrate how our KIPP alumni were faring after they left our schools, we published The Promise of College Completion: KIPP's Early Successes and Challenges in 2011.

It appears to take intensive efforts over a period of several years to produce lasting effects, but the fact that even the least intensive models of early intervention produce strong immediate effects suggests that a combination of approaches within a comprehensive preventive program will have great promise in increasing children's cognitive functioning and reducing future dropout.

The effort, called Louisville Promise, is in its early stages, but organizers hope to raise funds...

Efforts to attract students of color early in their academic careers have shown promise as a model for bringing more of these students into the profession.48 Bristol, T. J. (n.d.).

SIG Effort Posts Promising Early Results One - year improvements seen in many schools, Ed.

Though more work remains as teachers continue to teach to higher standards, these scores are «a promising early sign'that students are up to the challenge and that teachers» efforts are paying off.

Another winning effort by Tyler; for readers of Reynolds Price's The Promise of Rest and early Tyler novels such as Dinner at Homesick Restaurant.»

That's still a «future thing» in terms of its completion: the promise is to peak by 2030, with a «best effort» toward an earlier date.

These efforts ultimately led to the creation of the Home Visiting Services Account (HVSA) in 2010 in legislation, a public - private partnership between the Washington State Department of Early Learning (DEL) and Thrive Washington (Thrive), a statewide nonprofit organization that matches public dollars with private funding to invest in a portfolio of evidence - based and promising practices for home visiting programs.