Sentences with phrase «several efforts at»

Thankfully, there are several efforts at providing glossaries and indexes that are thorough and easy to understand.

How difficult that will be is already evident from the fruits of the several efforts at establishing a center - left government.

Not exact matches

Several workers also told the Guardian that they were fired from the factory just before Ramadan, the Muslim holy month that began at the end of May, and rehired a month later in what they believe was an effort to make them ineligible for a religious holiday bonus that is required by Indonesian law.

This issue is at the core of efforts by several tablet manufacturers to bridge the gap with hybrid devices.

The trigger for the latest Redstone family feud, according to several sources, was a dispute over corporate governance issues — such as Shari's effort to more closely tie executive compensation to performance — at Viacom (viab) and CBS (cbs), a media empire that encompasses MTV, the CBS broadcast network, the Paramount film studio and the pay - TV channel Showtime.

As researchers noted in The New England Journal of Medicine, «though the practice of transferring three or more embryos in a single cycle has declined steadily, several factors may constrain efforts at further reduction.»

While there is no evidence that a large number of Chinese students or academics at US universities poses a threat to US interests, the Chinese government uses several education efforts as vehicles for soft power.

He emailed several different Trump campaign advisers to tell them about these efforts, and at least one campaign official — national co-chair Sam Clovis — appeared to encourage them.

The Dream Defenders have several policy objectives aimed at helping marginalized people, but one of its larger efforts revolves around gun violence and ending Florida's «stand your ground» law.

Praiseworthy efforts are being made to improve the music at Mass, and several free publications of the Propers of the Mass are available to download.

The past two years have seen the appearance of an informative Encyclopedia of the American Constitution (4 vols., edited by Leonard W. Levy [Macmillan]-RRB-, several outstanding studies on its intellectual background (including Forrest McDonald's Novus Ordo Seculorum: The Intellectual Origins of the Constitution [University Press of Kansas] and Morton White's Philosophy, The Federalist, and the Constitution [Oxford University Press], at least one pathbreaking effort to trace the document's role through the years (Michael Kammen's A Machine That Would Go of Itself The Constitution in American Culture [Knopf]-RRB- and a gaggle of good books on its religious themes (see Martin Marty's review in The Century [«James Madison Revisited,» April 9.

Tyagi Bill supported by the Prime Minister Desai restricting religious conversion and also the discrimination of scheduled caste converts to Christianity in the special benefits to people of the scheduled caste background, may be mentioned as violations of the covenant on the part of the State; and the Christian people have been unhappy at giving up minority communal safeguards and many efforts to organize Christian political parties off and on have been made in several states especially in the South by Christians.

After two weeks of interviews with St. Louis faith leaders and advocates, and several days on the ground moving between mobilizing efforts in Ferguson and dialogues with evangelical faith leaders, I see the same dynamic at work here.

Confusion is built into this effort to think in several languages at the same time.

After meeting for several weeks for lecture and discussion, the young mothers were asked if they would be interested in continuing to meet in a small sharing group in which they could support each other in their efforts at being adequate mothers.

Again and again we have remarked that some of the chronic evil seemingly inseparably associated with mankind has displayed several of its colossal dimensions among peoples who have called themselves Christian, but that repeatedly efforts to counter this evil, some of them at least partly successful, have been put forth by men and women inspired and sustained by Christian faith.

They represented several generations of frustrated efforts at religious reform, and they sought out a new habitation because they were convinced that their lives and fortunes were in danger at the hands of the Crown.

Discussions with executives at several national and regional baking companies pointed to an increased focus on innovation and stepped - up marketing efforts.

This Limited Additions rollout is one of several that will rotate throughout the year as part of the efforts to showcase the «best kept secret at Bar Louie.»

With a great deal of their success this year attributed to the sensational efforts of forward Harry Kane and several other starters, Tottenham Hotspur have begun working on deals to keep three of their stars at White Hart Lane for the foreseeable future.

At least several of the 14 boxing commissioners who otherwise supported him had voted for this resolution in an effort to avoid punishing boxers for the sins of their managers.

Over the course of his nine years at Chelsea, Ivanovic came in with several important goals and his current effort may count for the same.

Park District naturalists and volunteers will discuss restoration efforts in progress at the swamp and several nature walks and family activities are scheduled.

In an effort to help children observe and learn about the habitats and wildlife at our wildlife sanctuaries and have fun at the same time, we offer several activities to use during, before, or after your outdoor adventure.

And the counter reaction to that has been a much bigger effort done by several hospitals to make the experience better, lessen interventions, use CNMs instead of residents and provide several tools to avoid c.sections, so that you can have the safety of an early intervention without being bed ridden and forcibly tied to a monitor and an IV at the hands of OB wannabes.

It took a little more effort than one day, but at 27 months, she has been accident free for several weeks!

I was so angry at one point that I was actually shaking, as I had made a good faith effort to keep my tone civil, asking questions and not insulting or personally attacking (although I did ask several people tweeting about how much they loved eating Nestle chocolate about how they felt knowing that it was made with slave labour).

Efforts to combat heroin and opioid abuse over the last several years have totaled millions of dollars in new efforts as well as regulations placed on insurance companies to deal with the issue, marking one of the few bipartisan issues facing lawmakers at either the state or federalEfforts to combat heroin and opioid abuse over the last several years have totaled millions of dollars in new efforts as well as regulations placed on insurance companies to deal with the issue, marking one of the few bipartisan issues facing lawmakers at either the state or federalefforts as well as regulations placed on insurance companies to deal with the issue, marking one of the few bipartisan issues facing lawmakers at either the state or federal level.

The Anyinam branch alone owes and amount of four hundred and ninety - five thousand, seven hundred and eighty - one point eighty - three Ghana cedis (GHS495, 781.83.00) Mark Osafo Agyapong explained that he has ten thousand Ghana cedis (GHS10, 000.00) at the bank but several efforts to withdraw the money have not been fruitful and so decided to join the demonstration.

At 9 a.m., Monroe County Executive Cheryl Dinolfo will be joined by Sheriff Patrick O'Flynn and several town supervisors to discuss response efforts to flooding along Lake Ontario, Mayer's Marina, 7 Lake Rd., Webster.

A package of 14 measures to address the heroin and opioid epidemic, expected to pass the Senate yesterday and today, focuses on law enforcement efforts, following several years of legislation aimed more at prevention and treatment.

The Unity Maps, developed by joint effort of several advocacy organizations, puts all of Inwood and much of the eastern half of Washington Heights into City Council District 10, while District 7's northern border would start at the George Washington Bridge and end farther south at 113th St.

In a debate at the East Hampton Library last month, all three candidates were largely in sync on many of the issues, though Mr. Bragman, a political newcomer, made several efforts to criticize and draw a distinction between himself and Mr. Cohen, who is chairman of the town's nature preserve committee.

Blakeman, according to several accounts, has been struggling to raise money since the beginning of his effort (although he's got a fundraiser at a nightclub called Glo on Long Island with Rep. Pete King this week).

Several newly elected council members, including Ritchie Torres and Helen Rosenthal, conceived and organized the series in an effort to change, or at least expand, the way the speaker is selected.

In its effort to curb the activities of Boko Haram, Nigerian military at the weekend rescued over 5, 000 hostages held captive by the terrorists» group while ten terrorists were killed in several clearance operation in the North East.

Mr. Seabrook, the union leader who has been a proud obstacle to plenty of the reform efforts aimed at Rikers Island by Mr. de Blasio over the last several years — he filed court documents to try to stop a new use of force policy and has held City Hall press conferences decrying the mayor's policies and telling him to «shape up or ship out» — pointed to something that would probably be an even larger obstacle to closing down the city's controversial jail complex: resistance from residential neighborhoods who don't want inmates nearby.

MTA board member Mitchell Pally, a frequent critic of Penn's current condition, said Cuomo's plan would streamline several parallel efforts to changes at Penn, which houses multiple transportation agencies and retail landlords.

President Obama took several sharp swipes at Trump yesterday, though didn't name him outright, during a commencement address at Rutgers University that could be the beginning of a forceful effort to help elect a Democratic successor as president.

Several top associates of the Kano governor were seen in Kaduna at the weekend, where they apparently attended a strategy meeting ahead of the reconciliation efforts.

After several failed efforts to secure official recognition for rapper Christopher Wallace, who also went by Biggie Smalls, New York City's parks department has renamed the basketball courts at Crispus Attucks Playground, roughly on the border between Clinton Hill and Bedford - Stuyvesant, in his honor.

At the same time, lawmakers and the governor could not agree on any anti-corruption efforts in the wake of several scandals.

Good government groups are organizing a grassroots effort to advance the push for nonpartisan redistricting reform a concept at the center of a several statewide platforms, including one advanced by Democratic gubernatorial hopeful Andrew Cuomo and another by former NYC Mayor Ed Koch.

According to Mr. Portuphy, several efforts directed at the leadership of the NPP to call its members to order have failed hence his charge.

«NYS will provide Saab with several incentives aimed at supporting Saab's efforts, which are expected to further stimulate industrial growth and create new jobs within Saab's New York - based subsidiaries,» the company said.

In a news briefing held at Hein's sixth - floor office in the county office building in Uptown Kingston Wednesday afternoon, Hein gave an update on the efforts to help people whose lives have been turned inside out by the havoc - wreaking floods which swept away several homes, drowned numerous cars and swallowed up at least several million dollars worth of the county's infrastructure.

Karen Hinton — married to State Operations Director Howard Glaser, one of the governor's oldest friends and a key figure in Cuomo's high - stakes efforts to legalize casino gambling, bring a new power utility to Long Island, and finalize a decision on hydrofracking for natural gas — is a «managing director» at Mercury Public Affairs, which was founded by several former aides and advisers to Republican former Gov. George Pataki.

The Saranac Lake Local Development Corp., formed several years ago by the Village of Saranac Lake for revitalization efforts, also won $ 300,000 to assist with Dew Drop Inn renovations at 27 Broadway.

Therefore, efforts to speak to the outgoing chairman of the party on the allegation proved abortive as several calls to his mobile phone was neither picked nor responded as at the time of filling this report.

Several attendees also spoke of the importance of having members of their community in key City government positions, expressing frustration at having mostly failed in that effort.