Sentences with phrase «scale efforts like»

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These efforts include stuff I was working on like TechCrunch50 / LAUNCH Festival, Sequoia Scouts & the Open Angel Forum (where Uber Pitched), and notably, Naval's work on AngelList (TWIST # 244) and Paul Graham's scaling of YCombinator to mind - blowing heights (TWIST # 421).

Like you (but on a much lower scale), I'm invested in several different things to diversify, but my latest effort has involved value investing in sector ETFs.

There is something to be said for the scale of time spent in the effort of prayer because, like all worth - while things, prayer is not an easy — although it is a very simple — thing for us.

Women, like blacks and members of other oppressed groups, must break their inner bondage and gain self - esteem if they are to use fully their potential in collective efforts to change the systems of injustice (discriminatory laws, pay scales, admissions policies to professional schools, among others).

Like many of his other efforts at this stage, your 18 - month - old is not likely to be dissuaded from scaling the crib if that's what he really wants to do.

Labour lost because they: a) broke manifold electoral promises b) lied shamelessly to the people and parliament c) engaged in industrial - scale corruption and lame cover - up d) wilfully enraged their newest supporters e) eschewed democracy at every opportunity f) treated the electorate like idiots g) alienated a vast constituency of voters with strong personal interest in the well - being of our servicemen h) inherited the most benign of economies and recklessly maxed out the public debt i) devoted inordinate time and effort to policies based on immature class war antics j) engaged in open internal dissent while being too cowardly to take any definitive action k) offered a wholly negative electoral campaign Unless confidence is restored in these areas, Labour will continue to be despised.

The scale of operations for such an effort is enormous and involves what, to an outsider, would seem like an impossible number of meetings each day.

«We need a planning process that is equal to the scale and complexity of the challenge, rather than continuing to depend on piecemeal efforts that put wildlife species and human communities at higher risk in the face of global pressures like climate change and a race for resources.»

Ultimately, we'd like to have motion estimates on the order of 5 - 10 hertz to accurately capture the dynamic response for a wide range of infrastructure,» says David McCallen, who leads an ECP - supported effort called High Performance, Multidisciplinary Simulations for Regional Scale Seismic Hazard and Risk Assessments.

Large - scale genome sequencing efforts, like the Human Microbiome Project, have focused on the community of microorganisms that live in the human gut.

What makes the effort particularly tricky is that the prediction of natural variations like El Niño are typically only accurate on the scale of a few months, so looking out several years presents a serious challenge.

It could be an idea for a large - scale project like The Cancer Genome Atlas, a multiyear effort that involved researchers from institutions across the country working collaboratively to catalogue all of the changes to DNA and molecules in more than 30 different cancer types.

Large - scale sequencing efforts like the 1,000 Genomes Project and The Cancer Genome Atlas now consider BAM the standard format for data exchange.

But during the aerial «dogfight» sequences, the film is something else again: a grand - scale spectacular, the likes of which has never been duplicated, not even by more expensive efforts like Hell's Angels (1930) and The Blue Max (1965).

Given its length, trying to tackle To Be Kind n one sitting might feel like the musical equivalent of scaling Everest, but with so many dizzying peaks along the way the effort is well rewarded.

For directors like Christopher Nolan and Steven Spielberg who tend to work on a massive scale with even larger budgets it takes more time and effort to turn in that final product, which makes it quite surprising that Ridley Scott has become as efficient at delivering a steady flow of features in the past few years.

A continuous improvement approach, like that adopted in California, would track progress on all of the measures in the dashboard, using scale scores to better measure growth and progress for all students, so that schools can continually assess and fine - tune their efforts.

Of course, for all of these efforts, scale and effectiveness depends not only on teachers like Gady embracing outside experts but also on sourcing reliable experts who are willing to give there time.

He makes similar arguments about how efforts to improve teacher quality, instructional approaches like Success for All, and high - expectation techniques practiced by educators like Jaime Escalante and Rafe Esquith are not promising models for reform because their success is due to the selection of students or other factors that can not be replicated on a broader scale.

March 2015 GoNOMAD continues our business partnership, the 360 Travel Network, an association of three sites and seven travel blogs, running content marketing campaigns for major brands like Trivago.com, Allianz Travel Insurance and Enterprise Rent - a-car, providing a full range of branding using display advertising, as well as content marketing, and a large - scale social media promotional effort.

Those who like their RPGs to deliver an epic - scale world - saving power fantasy would probably be served better by something other than Stoic's debut effort, which has no particular interest in making its player feel good about the decisions and scenarios they're being presented with.

Speaking of those two, their combo - to - special techniques do the most damage (over 50 % health) in the game despite the damage scaling and require less hits and less effort than a combo from a more complex character like Bakugo or Todoroki who don't even reach 50 %.

«Like Phaidon's excellent volumes on painting (Vitamin P) and drawing (Vitamin D), this is a comprehensive effort, representing artists from all fields (documentary, portraits, video, etc.) and 30 countries... The scale of the project and the talent of those chosen is undeniable.»

Some of us tried doing a data - collecting effort like this locally, and got a lot of resistance and outright stonewalling from said servants; who's up for organizing one on a national scale?

The only way the South CAN and will WANT To take on this effort if it's supported to do so... so until there's a commitment to finance to meet the scale of the challenge and a massive shake up of intellectual property controls, to be blunt, it looks like the North saying: do as I say, not as I do or have done for the last 250 years.

Efforts like composting, and maybe even small - scale waste - to - energy projects, could pop up at churches, temples, and other centers of worship as these organizations work to wring every bit of use out of this «waste» while reducing their carbon footprints and other environmental impacts.

The effort only looks like a failure to those who thought the effort was anything more then full scale demonstration projects at this point.

The absence of such efforts tells us we've been as a species behaving like we're dumb as a bag of doorknobs since the issue started to be talked about on any scale four decade ago.

It's a multi-prong approach to reach this goal, which would include Passive House construction along with Decent House / site generation and other efforts contributing to demand destruction, coupled with a shift in transport to non petroleum based fuels (electric vehicles and etc.) Since our focus here is on housing, I really would like to see Decent House scale up for the huge existing housing stock inventory yet to be touched by this approach, along with Passive House lessons applied to new construction, where the basic concept is to shift the burden of maintaining a comfortable, healthy living space toward the envelope, while reducing the intensity of HVAC required.

It is hard to argue against projects such as large scale vaccination efforts and the like.

SHSs and other solar lighting technologies provide modest amounts of electricity to several million people like Doña Maria across the developing world; small scale solar energy systems have emerged as keystone technologies in international efforts to address energy poverty.

Compliance efforts, like the U.S. based Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), are more relevant than ever, and new laws in Brazil, China, Russia, the United Kingdom, and many other countries have dramatically increased due diligence and formal government investigations on a global scale.

Innovations such as the deployment of artificial intelligence (AI) as part of M&A diligence efforts and the use of workflow and data analytics to drive contract remediation for large scale events like GDPR and Brexit are examples at play today.

In the meantime, companies like Apple, Google, and Samsung have started funneling their own resources and tech talent into AR efforts, which have resulted in full - scale mobile AR platforms.

Successful investors have learned to manage their investing like a business and not a hobby by creating systems to scale their efforts and build wealth...

Like many real estate brokers, Jim Napier of Napier ERA in Richmond, Va., recognized the value of public relations as a marketing tool, but never found the time in his busy schedule to launch the necessary full - scale effort to get results.