Sentences with phrase «promising results of their effort»

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Biogen is marching on in its own effort, and while updated results are expected in the second half of this year, initial study results haven't been promising.

They done so by the skin of their teeth in previous seasons, but last season Bolton finished a clear nine points above the drop, with the teams results definitely improving in the second half of the season under new manager Owen Coyle, so there were promising signs from the Reebok club that they can do a lot better than they for the most part last term, when positive form was almost non-existent and despite some valiant and brave efforts against some classy opponents they just couldn't convert their courageous performances into points which would have propelled them up the Premier League and into a more respectable finishing position.

McDonald's uses the occasion to tout its participation in the Children's Food and Beverage Advertising Initiative (but you already know how I feel about that group — see «Fox Guards Henhouse: Industry's «Self - Regulation» of Children's Food Advertising «-RRB-; it promises to set up a «Kids» Food and Nutrition Advisory Board;» it says the company will submit to third party verification of its efforts, the results of which will be reported publicly; and, my personal favorite, executives from the company will go on a «listening tour» next month to learn more from parents and nutrition experts on the role McDonald's can play in improving child nutrition.

She states that this is one of the more time - consuming paper flowers she offers, but promises the end results are worth the time and effort.

Off topic questions included city enforcement efforts around Airbnb and Airbnb's hiring of de Blasio's campaign manager, why a proposed ban on carriage horses has taken far longer than initially promised by the mayor, Tim Wu's comments on the mayor's central role on defeating Wu and Zephyr Teachout in Tuesday's primary, revised statistics on NYPD chokehold incidents, charter school co-locations, the mayor's lack of a federal security clearance and resulting inability to receive classified information, school bus drivers movement toward a strike, his relationship with Police Commissioner Bill Bratton and his efforts to help elect a Democratic majority in the state senate.

BOSTON — Efforts to close the word gap — the vast difference in the number of words heard by children from low - income and higher - income homes — by working with the parents and caregivers of very young children have shown promising new results in the behavior of parents and children, according to three researchers at a Feb. 17 briefing at the 2017 AAAS Annual Meeting in Boston.

Though the results of the PROMISE (progesterone in miscarriage treatment) trial will be disappointing to many, it will allow researchers to direct their efforts towards exploring other treatments that can reduce the risk.

Therefore, the need to find alternative solutions is pressing, and the results of this new research are a promising break - through in the effort to defeat these resistant superbugs.

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

For these patients, recent efforts of cancer researchers have resulted in promising treatment options that directly target the specific BRAF alteration.

Still, the results of this effort were promising, because genomic information was used to keep cancer at bay, if only for a short time.

The research presentations cover a wide range of disciplines, treatment approaches and cancer types, including a unique form of immunotherapy for ovarian cancer, promising results on a new treatment approach for Hodgkin lymphoma in children and young adults and an effort to build a predictive tool to determine which patients are most likely to respond well to checkpoint inhibitors.

In tackling this task, Feinberg says, they «backed into» the five essential tenets of the KIPP model: High Expectations (for academic achievement and conduct); Choice and Commitment (KIPP students, parents, and teachers all sign a learning pledge, promising to devote the time and effort needed to succeed); More Time (extended school day, week, and year); Power to Lead (school leaders have significant autonomy, including control over their budget, personnel, and culture); and Focus on Results (scores on standardized tests and other objective measures are coupled with a focus on character development).

These results show that several thousands of New Orleans» children have brighter futures because of current reforms, and these efforts — and the progress they promise — must continue to anchor education policy as we transition toward unification.

If it had delivered promising results, more states would have wanted to join, and they would have had the kind of enthusiasm and commitment required for a sustainable effort.

We have clearly shown that the pace of the Chevrolet Corvette C7.R is promising; unfortunately, the results so far do not do reflect our performance or efforts.

The article focuses on a fresh promise from Brazil's president to cut the rate of destruction 72 percent by 2017, in a move seen by many to be related to efforts by some developing countries to get potentially valuable credit for avoided deforestation in whatever climate treaty results from talks next year.

As President Donald Trump redoubles his efforts to fulfill campaign promises on tax reform, a critical part of his program is in jeopardy of being discarded, as a result of the...

The last few years have seen an unmistakable trend towards social media tools and habits that push the absolute minimum of effort and commitment, with the result that the promise of social media — better communication, broader networks, stronger personal connections — is in danger of falling by the wayside.

Within the education community, Parents as Teachers (PAT) has gained prominence as a program for promoting child development and school readiness after achieving promising results in Missouri.12 In New Zealand, Scotland, and other countries, recent development of home - visiting efforts have replicated American models, thus indicating that the promise seen in this country with home visiting is envisioned beyond our shores.13, 14 Lisbeth Schorr, in her 1988 book Within Our Reach: Breaking the Cycle of the Disadvantaged, stated: «[Home - visiting] programs that succeed in helping the children and families who live in the shadows are intensive and comprehensive, flexible, and staffed by professionals with the time and skills to establish solid relationships with their clients.

Given the high costs and dubious benefits to be expected from continuing on the lock»em - up path, and given the encouraging results of many youth oriented prevention and intervention strategies, a significant public investment is surely warranted both to strengthen and expand a youth oriented prevention agenda and to step up the effort to refine and improve on prevention's promise.