Sentences with phrase «second attempt of»

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The 23 - year - old quantitative trader was in the middle of an extracurricular bet — on the web site PredictIt — that Senate Republicans» second attempt at overhauling Obamacare would fall short of the 51 votes needed to pass.

Today, Corcoran is happily married to her second husband, Bill Higgins, and has two children, Tom, a 22 - year - old graduate of Columbia University, whom Corcoran had after seven years of in vitro attempts; and Katie, 11, whom she adopted after an exhaustive search, using the skills she honed writing ad copy for dream homes.

Wild Acre Metals has flagged a second attempt at acquiring technology company Nuheara after the target completed a working prototype of its wearable IQbuds hearing product.

I remember the Super Bowl losses (all four of them), the playoffs hopes, the missed field goal attempts with seconds left on the clock.

Following the release of Trump's updated, second attempt at the travel ban, AirAsiaExpedia CEO Jonty Neal told CNBC that «with this new order, and in particular its impact on travel to the U.S. from Asia, it's really too soon to tell.»

Two failed lawsuits attempted to prevent the sale; the second one was thrown out of court only last month.

As positive as FXR's second attempt at outsourcing distribution was in Scandinavia, Reimer was leery of using the same model when he expanded into less - secure Russia.

On the second page, Oppenheimer catalogues the family's many misfortunes and humiliations: «Drug addictions, alcoholism, overdoses, adultery, homosexuality, child abuse in the form of molestation, suspected kidnapping, a murder plot, a shooting, tragic accidents, suicide, attempted suicides, and other mayhem.»

The most interesting chapters of The Two - Second Advantage deal with attempts to take that human predictive ability and to blend it with real - time computing — as the authors have it, to design and build predictive systems that put «Gretzky's brain in a box.»

The second investigation, «File 2000,» reportedly concerns Netanyahu's alleged attempts to strike a deal with publisher Arnon Mozes of the Yediot Ahronot newspaper group to promote legislation to weaken Yediot's main competitor in exchange for more favorable coverage of him by Yediot.

«It has always saddened me that Canada is probably one of the only school systems in the world (or at least the world wealthy enough for full, functioning educational systems) that does not require at least an attempt to learn a second language.»

The second reason is that monetary authorities have learned the value of clear communication from previous unfortunate experiences, such as in 1994, when almost no attempt was made to forewarn markets.

Second Cup's marijuana move — which is only a small part of its overall strategy, according to Bregman — is the latest in a string of attempts to turn the struggling company around, including everything from store redesigns to management shuffles.

U.S. stocks jumped in the open on Wednesday, attempting for a second day to bounce from a recent plunge, as investors eyed stimulus moves out of China and U.S. data.

Following the failure of Poke, Slingshot is Facebook's second attempt to mimic Snapchat.

LONDON (AP)-- British Prime Minister Theresa May has firmly rejected the notion of a second referendum on the country's membership in the European Union, insisting Wednesday that the U.K. wouldn't attempt a back - handed effort to remain in the bloc.

Meanwhile, the government is also attempting to boost sentiment via the «second arrow» of Abenomics, fiscal policy.

Instead of assuming that the prospect isn't interested and the deal is hopeless, just contact the prospect, get started with a second attempt at appointment setting, and move on.

The system then searches for suspicious patterns, such as a high number of failed login attempts within a few seconds, and alerts analysts.

Last year we estimated that they could use $ 500,000 — $ 1 million more than their 2016 budget of $ 2.5 million, primarily to be used to establish an operating reserve1 and to begin some of their additional planned expansion.2 This year they are attempting to exceed that additional funding estimate, with a fundraising goal of $ 4.66 million.3 This includes the second half of their $ 1 million grant4 awarded by The Open Philanthropy Project (Open Phil) in 2016.5

A second attempt at pulling out of the U.K., then, seems likely.

«We are deeply concerned about all deliberate attempts to offend members of any religious or ethnic group,» said Stephen Engelken, the second - ranking diplomat at the embassy.

This is Michael's second week at «Faithful and True — Atlanta» a 16 - week counseling program that, like dozens of others like it around the country, combines traditional psychotherapy with the Bible in an attempt to treat addictive behavior.

However, work by Richard C. Tolman in 1934 showed that these early attempts failed because of the entropy problem: according to the Second Law of Thermodynamics, entropy can only increase.

Which is to say that the path which the individual life must take is one of growth from nothingness to being, by attempting first to understand that one's life situation is ambiguous; second, by opening oneself up to the creative God - power within oneself and waiting for its revelation, however gradually it may come; and third, by acting upon its discovery.

The second unfortunate consequence of the Lemon test is that it calls into question attempts to accommodate the religious needs of religious minorities.

It means cooking out on the grill, digging out our crimson sweatshirts, nearly peeing in our pants after a last - second field goal attempt, and falling asleep on the couch to the sound of the crowd noise from another, less consequential (Big 10) game.

The majority of second attempts occur in the ninety days after the first.

It is within the context of an evolutionary view of time that I shall attempt to get a proper understanding of God's time, first because our general purpose is to make God's eternity relevant to our modern evolutionary world, and second because this seems to be the context in which the Scriptures thought of God's time.

(Second group) 3 Miracles — Carries water on cloth, produces a feast from a single grain, stretches a beam of wood to help his father finish constructing a bed Attempts to teach Jesus, which fail, with Jesus doing the teaching 3 Miracles — Heals James from snake poison, resurrects a child who died of illness, resurrects a man who died in a construction accident

A second reason is the overt attempt to overcome insulated bubbles of concentrated attention found in the numerous specialized disciplines of contemporary science (GST 36).

The central chapter on the Second Premise (K 65 - 140) contains: (i) a refutation of the attempted application of Cantor's transfinite mathematics to the domain of extramental reality, (ii) two philosophical arguments which attempt to show the conceptual absurdity of the notion of an infinite past of finite actualities, and (iii) two arguments from physics (concerning Big Bang and Thermodynamic theory, respectively) which attempt to show that probably the natural universe had an absolute beginning a finite time ago.

Each is a mythic expression: that is, first, an attempt by a people to explain the unexplainable by using the legends handed down from generation to generation; and second, a rationalization of the status quo.

When you understand the vast number of possible chemical reactions per liter per second and the truly large number of attempts (coin flips) that really entails — you will find that the «Law of Averages» and statistics are not on your side.

Gorbachev, having so dramatically fallen from his post as the second most powerful man in the world, and having failed in an attempt to come back as Russian president, has reinvented himself as a world environmentalist, founder and president of the Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) «Green Cross International.»

In this second conclusion, Schweitzer boldly demands a moratorium on all further efforts to achieve a scholarly, historical reconstruction of the life of Jesus; He claims that his research has proved the futility of all such attempts, and in any case, such studies are not what the modern world or Christianity needs.

The essential plot of the story of the lie is repeated a second time of Abraham in chapter 20 where the scene is Gerar, not Egypt, and where, with a greater show of moral sensitivity, the story attempts to mitigate the patriarch's lie (v. 12) and maintain the sexual integrity of his wife (vv.

The main point is that the inclusivist can read the second part of this paper as an attempt to understand cohesive nexus in terms of the logic of relations.

the gospel of Matthew — that will be carried out in two stages: first, the attestation of a genuinely «universalistic» undercurrent that overextends the christological witness but buttresses the theocentric emphasis; second, an attempt to make use of a Whiteheadian understanding of the nature of language in developing an adequate hermeneutical perspective on the significance of this undercurrent.

In this second part of my paper, I shall attempt to discern some relational structures that Whitehead's metaphysics attributes to reality: relational structures involving nexus.

He does this in two important respects: the first is in regard to the standoff between the attempts to show that theology engages the whole person because it is something «subjective» and personal and the attempts to show that it does so because it is something «objective» and public; and the second is in regard to efforts to replace the picture of theology as a movement from theory to practice by new pictures of the relation between theory and practice.

The way in which Dodd attempts to reconcile the kerygma and the quest is in the second place misleading, since it interprets the «historical section of the kerygma» (42) in terms of a positivistic view of history, rather than in terms of the theological approach to history which actually characterized primitive Christianity.

Such a view was accepted by Justin and Irenaeus in the later second century, although in the third century Dionysius, bishop of Alexandria, attempted to minimize the authority of the book by proving that since John son of Zebedee wrote the gospel ascribed to him, he can not have written the book of Revelation, since the two writings employ different ideas, styles and vocabularies.

What it wills is a subordination to (or defiance of) one's sovereign obligation to seek and attempt the Second Good.

Jang Song Thaek had largely been considered the second in command of the reclusive country, until he was found guilty of charges including attempting to overthrow the government, gambling, drug use and womanizing.

That's when officers Randy Lozoya and John Tennis showed up and attempted to run down Mann within seconds of arriving before shooting him.

The second set — the questions of a systematic theology — may then attempt to determine exactly how the vast and diverse material of past and present Christian experience may be ordered to form a coherent theological whole.

Maybe, as a second scenario, this hypothetical «I» rejects the teaching because he believes it to be a misinterpretation of scripture, or even an attempt by church leaders to unreasonably control their parishioners.

Second, since the inherency of evangelical truth in the book is focused on its main claims, it follows that there is much in the text that is «lesser,» not a main claim, but probes and attempts over the generations to carry the main claims to specificity.

Debate over this issue remains prominent among process theologians to this day and will be discussed more fully in the second part of this paper, but it should be remarked here that Hartshorne has consistently attempted to envision God, in this and in some other respects, after the model of the human person.