Sentences with phrase «several failed 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.

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H.B. 929 Status: Failed Relates to promotion of cybersecurity in the Commonwealth, initiates several efforts to promote economic development, research and development, and workforce development of the cybersecurity industry in the Commonwealth, creates two new matching grant funds, adds one administered by the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Investment Authority for private entities that collaborate with one or more public institutions of higher education on research and development related to cybersecurity.

MPs and bankers are the targets of several efforts which fail to befunny but reveal the utter contempt both are held in.

Last year he threatened to fund primary efforts against several Senate Republicans, but those efforts largely failed.

(While the NYLCV PAC spent money on both Democrats and Republicans, several reports have indicated Litwin earmarked his money for Senator Mark Grisanti's failed re-election effort in western New York.)

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

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.

Charter advocates in Massachusetts sought to increase the number of urban students who can enroll in charters, and the state had several well - qualified charter operators eager to open new schools, but both efforts failed in the legislature and in a referendum after a fierce campaign by teachers» unions.

While it represents an effort on the part of UC to get around Prop 209, having been enshrined by several failed challenges, consider it from a student perspective.

Unfortunately, efforts to successfully personalize learning through adaptive curricula will fail many students for several key reasons:

You will dismiss bad and mediocre cars as disappointing efforts, and wonder why the people who developed them failed to carry their ideas, or care in execution, several steps further.

«DEC tried to emulate Intel to get Intel - based software; there have been several efforts to emulate Windows, which failed; and efforts to clone, without support, the Mac platform.

Led efforts to migrate several non-standard company networks, which had failed to comply with security standards, onto company - supported networks.

(According to my business advisor at the Goins group, most of the students fail to find good deals and it takes several Goins Group staff members a full time effort to find homes that qualify their own criteria.)

During the next three or so years several attempts were made to obtain a mortgage but all efforts failed.