Sentences with phrase «question years of efforts»

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That it is intense is hardly questioned.42 And it grows year by year, largely as a result of government effort to use education as a unifying, pride - producing agency.

This is the scarcely questioned and surprising result today of an enquiry which for almost two hundred years has devoted prodigious and by no means fruitless effort to regain and expound the life of the historical Jesus, freed from all embellishment by dogma and doctrine.»

Achieving this is not purely a question of human effort or management structure (we have had plenty of those over the years).

I shall not speak here about this, my own views on the matter may be found in a little book written some years ago, Praying Today (Eerdmans, 1974), in which an effort was made to meet some of the problems and answer some of the questions that personal devotion may suggest.

Those are just some of the questions in a confidential survey sent to 400,000 active - duty and reserve troops this week as part of an effort to gauge reactions in the ranks if the military lifts its «don't ask, don't tell» policy that has kept g - ay and le - sbian troops in the closet for the last 17 years.»

The figure for the Soviet Union is open to question because it has not been possible in recent years to get accurate information concerning the fate of Islam under Communism and it is known that efforts have been made to curtail Islam, partly for ideological reasons and partly to break the ties of the Muslims with the Turkish and Iranian areas.

Murphy's race against Democratic candidate Justin Wagner in 2014 was one of four contested Senate campaigns in question last year that saw transfers from county committees to candidates in an apparent effort to avoid donation limits.

Also from the OP's linked article: «The sanctions in question included those imposed by Obama for Russia's annexation of Crimea in 2014 and others inflicted late last year to punish Moscow for its suspected efforts to interfere in the 2016 election.»

Earlier this year when the Port Authority announced that it was backing out of a 40,000 square foot lease at Moynihan Station (the transformed James A. Farley Post Office building), it raised the question of whether the agency would still make a financial contribution to the $ 3 billion effort of the post office and Penn Station.

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But in his district, where the 81 - year - old, 21 - term congressman heads into a June primary looking increasingly vulnerable, the question of whether his fund - raising efforts have crossed the line is joined by another: Has he simply stayed too long?

«Despite the efforts of teachers and pupils, the value of this year's test results will be poured over and questioned and schools face the prospect of being held to account unfairly on the basis of this year's results data.

The leader of an effort to unseat Mayor Bill de Blasio is calling into question whether de Blasio's spending through his nonprofit Campaign for One New York over the last few years violates city campaign finance spending limits.

The trial would have re-opened the vexed question of parliamentary sleaze during the Tory party conference, and only a year after the government had made strenuous efforts to bury the issue.

In response to a question about the White House budget proposal's potential impact on NIH's ambitions, Collins pointed to passage late last year of the 21st Century Cures Act, a $ 6.3 billion measure that authorizes a decade of funding for the «moonshot» program to cure cancer, the Precision Medicine Initiative, the BRAIN initiative and efforts to combat opioid addiction.

The planned «Census of Marine Life,» a 10 - year, billion - dollar effort, aims to answer three questions, says co-developer Jesse Ausubel of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation in New York City: «What did, what does, and what will live in the ocean?»

Efforts to sequence the closely related common «house» mosquito Culex pipiens quinquefasciatus may also help resolve some of these questions when completed, potentially as early as the end of this year.

The critique from an Institute of Medicine (IOM) and National Research Council (NRC) panel raises questions about whether the National Children's Study (NCS) can sustain the political support needed to assure funding for the ambitious effort, which has already cost $ 1 billion and could require billions more in coming years.

Although in the last years, more efforts were invested in order to elucidate the detailed composition of the protein corona, this still remains a challenging question which needs exhaustive analysis and techniques.

Salt goes on the run, using all her skills and years of experience as a covert operative to elude capture, but her efforts to prove her innocence only serve to cast doubt on her motives as the hunt to uncover the truth behind her identity continues and the question remains: «Who is Salt?»

As our two - year arts@newman pilot program comes to a close (read more about it), we are entering the process of evaluating and reporting on our efforts, posing questions for future growth, and reflecting on the incredible journey we have undertaken.

Before I yield to yet another data collection activity, my experience this fall collecting data related to the start - of - the - year math assessment reminds me that I need to employ a number of screening questions to determine if the effort will be worth it:

(Last year, EdNext sponsored a similar effort, recruiting a number of the same leaders to discuss these questions in a virtual forum.)

What began last spring with a simple question over lunch with Dean Kathleen McCartney became the inspiration for a major fundraising effort by a group of first - year Ed.D. students.

The discovery that teachers in some schools may have kept copies of last year's exams and used them to help students prepare for this year's tests, which ask the same questions, knocks off track, at least temporarily, state efforts to raise student achievement through greater school accountability.

(L to R) Beth Schueler, Lisa Utzinger, Janine de Novais, and Liz Hale Rozas What began last spring with a simple question over lunch with Dean Kathleen McCartney became the inspiration for a major fundraising effort by a group of first - year Ed.D. students.

The New York Times reported earlier this year on efforts to mend some of the fences broken during tussles over questions of teacher compensation, but wide gaps still exist between the two positions.

«The departure of two of the most visible break - the - china leaders is important and it raises the question of staying power — whether successors can build on these efforts, or whether they'll reverse course and opt for something more conventional, is going to be a big story over the next two years,» Hess said.

But statistics showing African - American students in the district were eight times more likely to get an out - of - school suspension than white students last year raises questions about whether the discipline code works against efforts to close the achievement gap.

With Duncan's resignation coming as a surprise — and only one week after an equally unexpected resignation from Speaker of the United States House of Representatives John Boehner (R - OH)-- the education community is left questioning the future of Congress's year - long efforts to replace NCLB.

To start to answer that question, you can compare your savings efforts with parents in our survey report who saved an average of $ 5,900 last year in their children's college savings account (s).

However, with the economy better off than it was a few years ago and questions heard about the additional benefits of further bond buying, this effort is likely to fade away.

This year we crowdsourced the questions from readers who won a copy of the Abnormal Returns: Winning Strategies from the Frontlines of the Investment Blogosphere for their efforts.

Twin Galaxies» recent efforts to build a dispute system for the purpose of allowing scores to be questioned in a centralized and documented manner have enabled all of the available evidence regarding Billy Mitchell's score performances to finally, after many years, be concentrated, examined and discussed by non-anonymous members of the gaming community and Twin Galaxies administration.

«Ultimately, we put a lot of effort into something we can build on, whether that's the approach to the story and the lore behind the game, the way the Doom marine, kind of his personality, who he is and some of the questions behind who he is, those are all things that we feel like are a nice foundation to really build on for years and years and years.

I've spent a lot of time over the last year thinking about this question: how can The Abundant Artist achieve 10 times as much impact, while I exert the same amount of effort?

The theme of my previous post, «Still «Naked By The Window,»» was the fascination of watching patriarchy take care of its own, in this case tracking the orchestration of efforts, over a period of years, to restore Carl Andre's personal reputation in advance of his retrospective at Dia, there being no question of needing to restore his artistic reputation which is unquestioned and secure.

WE CAN SOLVE IT: SO FAR STILL A QUESTION MARK Last week, the Alliance launched http://www.wecansolveit.org, a $ 300M / three - year effort to promote awareness of solutions.

After reading this email to the late climate scientists Steven H. Schneider (released from the 2 year FOI effort to NOAA) below...... I have this question for Bill Lambrecht of the St. Louis Post Dispatch:

So here is the question: Are Australians willing to delay the growth in real GDP by 12 months and in doing so play their part in global efforts to tackle climate change, or would they prefer to have the growth a year earlier and do nothing about climate change, sponge off the rest of the world and become an international pariah?

The question of colour trade - marks is still relatively new in Canada, but will likely gain more prominence in the next few years, as more companies seek to protect distinctive colours which form part of marketing efforts.

A woman who has launched a constitutional challenge of Ontario's Family Law Act in an effort to require her 21 - year - old son's biological father to continue paying support for him because he is disabled, is an important case that highlights vital questions around child support and the care of disabled adults, says Toronto family lawyer Steven Benmor.

As the years go by, I find myself making increasing use of three types of questions in my effort to help partners find their voice and come up with the missing conversation.

For more than twenty years, and now as a full - time mediator, I've been fortunate to limit my professional efforts to helping Colorado couples in the greatest of personal and family transitions find their own answers to often challenging questions.