Sentences with phrase «recalls efforts by»

The 1964 book, «A History of Pornography» recalls efforts by some gentlemen of All Souls College in 1674 to surreptitiously reprint erotic drawings using the Oxford University Press.

Though park officials are portraying the questions as a way to gauge community interest in a variety of issues, others suggest placing the questions on the ballot was a calculated move to avoid any recall efforts by residents.

Not exact matches

Indiana is the latest Midwestern state where Republicans have pushed though anti-labor legislation even as the efforts have drawn large protests by union backers and spawned recall efforts.

Indiana is the latest Midwestern state where Republicans have pushed labor legislation with safe voting margins even as the efforts have drawn large protests by union backers and spawned recall efforts.

Robert Bjork, of the University of California, coined the phrase «desirable difficulties» to describe the counter-intuitive notion that learning should be made harder by, for instance, spacing sessions further apart so that students have to make more effort to recall what they learnt last time.

The effort of Gruntvig and his school to whip up the national pride of Denmark by recalling it to the Nordic sagas and its glorious history, Kierkegaard felt to be so much public flattery and a violent poison to the real individual need of the soul.

By regularly resting from their efforts, the Israelites both found themselves refreshed and were able to renew themselves and to recall their God.

Its safety efforts include a recall program in which the fruit in all of its shipments can be identified by code to the grower, acreage, date of packing and picking.

Wisconsin Democrats have made a concerted effort to make what's referred to as a «John Doe investigation» — conducted at first in secret by state authorities — a campaign issue in the gubernatorial recall election, though the issue hasn't garnered much attention outside the state.

Frantic efforts made by this reporter to contact some of the national officers to either confirm or deny this story was unsuccessful, but Chronicle sources at the party office said the National Executive Committee would meet any moment from now to consider the recall of some of the suspended officers who have shown genuine remorse over the matters that led to their suspension.

It will be recalled that due to the concerted efforts of the military quite a number of towns and villages hitherto held by the Boko Haram terrorists were liberated, this brought about an unprecedented influx of IDPs to the camp which the terrorists took advantage and infiltrate in order to wreck more havoc among the society.

By Matt Pommer Did Democrats make a mistake in opting for an early effort to recall Gov. Scott Walker?

Cuomo, as you'll recall, sought to block Indian Point's relicensing applications when he was AG — an effort being continued by his successor, AG Eric Schneiderman.

«It will be recalled that following relentless media attack on my person by the EFCC acting in concert with some powerful families with known ties to the government which culminated in the filing of phantom money laundering and corruption charges against me, I made spirited efforts to engage with relevant officials of government including the EFCC, the Office of the Attorney General of the Federation and the Presidency to furnish them with all the information in respect of the OPL 245 Settlement Agreement between the Federal Government of Nigeria and Malabu Oil & Gas Limited which was brokered by the administration of President Olusegun Obasanjo, GCFR.

He recalled several efforts supported by Western powers to derail the process, including the deportation of one million Ghanaians from Nigeria under Shehu Shagari's administration.

Later, Mrs. Clinton recalled Mr. Trump's stream of insults to women over the years, a determined effort by her to rally female voters to her side.

«It will be recalled that due to the concerted efforts of the military quite a number of towns and villages hitherto held by the Boko Haram terrorists were liberated» Usman said.

Ivanovskiy recalls the scene: «Usually the chief designers came together for such efforts as a forthcoming launch, and by that time it had become a tradition for them to come to the launchpad.

The sixteenth feature film by those unique and unpredictable filmmakers Joel and Ethan Coen, Inside LLewyn Davis is their first film that, storywise, seems to recall some of their earlier efforts.

This is a movie that recalls Peter Weir's 1998 effort «The Truman Show,» where a fellow played by Jim Carrey is unaware that his entire life is being secretly taped and enjoyed by a large TV audience.

The Wolverine is directed by James Mangold, who made the excellent flicks Walk the Line and 3:10 to Yuma, and written by Mark Bomback (Total Recall, Live Free or Die Hard) and Scott Frank (The Lookout, The Interpreter); it is a respectable effort.

readers will recall, first came the effort to hand Hartford's Clark Elementary School over to Achievement First, Inc., the charter school management company formed by Governor Malloy's Commissioner of Education, Stefan Pryor.

The report also indicates that the vehicles were modified by CAFEE prior to testing ostensibly in an effort to replicate a prior recall.

The story is narrated by Arthens himself, as he recalls meals and times in his life in an effort to identify the elusive dish; the people and things in his life also recount their experiences and opinions of him.

Starting with a lack of clarity and communication about when pre-orders would be delivered, moving on to a stop in deliveries and a recall of a significant chunk of vans, and compounding things with an offer of a free charging station for early purchasers as an apology for delays, which was then followed by months of radio silence about when that station would be delivered — it's fair to say that Chrysler's outward facing communications efforts have not exactly covered themselves with glory.

Our efforts also led to a nationwide recall by Chrysler Corporation of its minivan due to defective door latches on certain models.

I was going to write something about the misguided effort by California voters to attempt to recall Judge Aaron Persky in response to his light sentence on convicted sexual assaulter Brock Turner, arguing that anyone supporting such efforts can not complain when state judges are removed or non-retained in response to, for example, pro-LGBTQ rulings (e.g., three members of the Supreme Court of Iowa in 2010).

Recalling the effort, one she describes as «an incredible process,» she explains that Vermont's dental assistants were supported by people who believed in them, just as they believed in their own position.

She bristles as she recalls his effort to navigate the townhome purchase by himself, even trying to write up the sales contract.