Sentences with phrase «small attempts at»

Whether it was the work you had to do for Tom Nook in the original Animal Crossing, Wild World and City Folk or the job you could land serving coffee at the Roost in New Leaf, the series has had small attempts at creating jobs for Villagers to be able to work.

Furthermore, the motivations of the characters and small attempts at symbolic touches give the film a very bizarre feel, as if trying to give ersatz meaning to the meaningless.

Full to the brim in guaranteed salaries, the Washington Wizards made one small attempt at bolstering their jam - packed roster by signing free agent shooting guard Jodie Meeks to a two - year deal worth $ 7 million, according to The Vertical's Shams Charania.

A small attempt at giving you some basic information is provided in the form of a magazine which lists the popularity of platforms and genres.

There's a small attempt at mixing in some theme with the whole warrior, wizard, elf and levelling up ideas, but obviously it's little more than skin deep.

There is a small attempt at backgrounds, but they're still either bright blue or black.

I am Sana and this is my small attempt at sharing my gastronomic journey in my current city Dubai.

Read on to see my small attempt at...

Not exact matches

«We want to have a small, massive impact,» Flombaum says, contrasting the approach of attempting to change the lives — and career paths — of a small number of students at a time to that of online education, which can reach a lot of people, but is likely to have just a small affect on each one.

Like his first attempt at taking over the small town of Leith, North Dakota, the white supremacist's plans for Antler are being thwarted by the town's residents.

Second, broker - dealers either attempt to step back from the marketplace altogether or only agree to transact at very wide bid - offer spreads and only in small size.

Analysts at BofA Merrill Lynch said in a note Thursday that Aereo appears to be attempting to force the case back to the high court so it can find a way of paying some smaller fees for content.

You should test your ad copy and other marketing via surveys, polls, informal focus groups conducted with a handful of your best customers, and direct attempts at selling face to face or to small groups brought together for that purpose, as well as split tests of headlines, offers, and prices via online and offline media.

As a result, he argues, we should expect to see plenty more acquisitions like Walmart's purchase of Jet.com, as the incumbents wake up to the threat that smaller startups are posing and attempt to «hedge their own public valuations by buying the very same unicorns that keep them awake at night.»

WHILE tax officials applaud the product ruling system as protecting small investors, others say the system is nothing but an attempt at revenue saving.

At the core of the Crapo bill is the assumption that the Dodd - Frank financial overhaul was overly aggressive and harmed smaller banks in attempting to rein in the larger financial institutions that caused the 2008 financial crisis.

The director of communications at Coinbase, David Farmer, in a blog post stated that a «small number of miners may attempt to go forward with a fork.»

Every time they received a cash inflow and attempted to buy shares, they would be forced to buy at the elevated ask prices set by the small number of active funds willing and able to transact with them, ask prices that they would push up through their attempted buying.

The deeper I look into myself the more clearly I become aware of this psychological truth: that no man would lift his little finger to attempt the smallest task unless he were spurred on by a more or less obscure conviction that in some infinitesimally tiny way he is contributing, at least indirectly, to the building up of something permanent — in other words, to your own work, Lord.

The danger is this: self - examination may spawn attempts at self - improvement, with the result that looking at self replaces looking to God, and small measures of merit replace the immeasurable grace of God.

Here in the United States we already have a small group of religious zealots infiltrating government at every level in an attempt to turn the US into a christian only nation.

NP: * I realize some are going to mention the child - molesters and those who deny Jesus, etc... But in my opinion this is often an anxious attempt to find at least one small corner of solace where we can keep our divisive and exclusive theologies.

«While many Americans find a trip to the doctor unpleasant, the National Transgender Discrimination Survey found that one in four trans people has been verbally harassed at a doctor's office or hospital, and a small but striking 2 percent have been physically assaulted while attempting to receive medical care.

Each attempt stands on its own, until the point at which practice predisposes us to recognize and seek excellence in little ways, and to realize that our battles are won in the smallest of details.

Michael Behe (in The Edge of Evolution) points out that there is abundant evidence for «microevolution» (smaller population change), but there is a boundary at which the evidence for microevolution stops and evidence for macroevolution either doesn't exist, or any clues that do exist are beset with problems so serious that explanatory attempts boil down to «just - so - stories.»

There is an example of a successful attempt, on a small scale — in fact, on simply one particular point, though an important one: W. Montgomery Watt, in the Introduction to his Muhammad at Mecca (Oxford, 1953), p. x writes, «I have refrained from using the expressions «God says» and «Muhammad says» when referring to the Qur» an, and have simply said «the Qur» an says.»»

At the time, gender - neutral language usage was by no means the norm; to the contrary, the mandate marked an attempt by a small elite of scholars to normalize a change that they wanted to see in the English language by imposing that change on the Bible.

I made this puppy chow in an attempt to have a small sweet snack at my desk for those afternoon cravings.

Peterson, at 30, ranks third in yards and third in attempts in the league, and he's cherishing the big victories and even some smaller ones, too.

the way i see it mbappe was at first only a ghost bid to hide our attempts for another striker maybe lacazette or another but arsenal found out that they actually have a chance even small to get him.

Does he go the Petrino route and attempt to land at a smaller FBS school?

I can only hope that this attempt is taken more seriously than the largely muted and clearly unsuccessful protests of late last season... although the plane writing escapade brought some much - needed attention to the matter, it failed to resonate with fence - sitters and those who had just recently fell off the Wenger truck... without a big enough showing of support the whole endeavor appeared relatively weak and poorly organized, especially to the major media outlets, whose involvement could have significantly changed what was to follow... but I get it, few wanted to turn on their club, let alone make a public display of their discord... problem is, they are preying on that vulnerability, in fact, their counting on you to keep your thoughts to yourself... who are you to tell these fat cats how to steal your money... they have worked long and hard to pull the wool over your eyes... they even went so far as to pay enormous sums of cash to your once beloved professor to be their corporate spokesmodel so that the whole thing would be more palatable... eventually the club made it appear as if this was simply a relatively small fringe group of highly radicalized supporters, which allowed the pro-Wenger element inside the club hierarchy to claim victory following the FA Cup win... unfortunately what has happened to this club can't be solved by FA Cups or a few players coming in, the very culture of this club needs to be changed and that starts at the top... in order to change the unhealthy and dysfunctional narrative that has absorbed this club we need to remove everyone who presently occupies a position of power... only then can we get back to the business of playing championship caliber football, which should always be the number one priority of this organization... on an important side note, one of the most devastating mistakes made in the final days of this hectic and poorly planned transfer window didn't have to do with the big name players like Sanchez or Lemar, but the fact that they failed to secure Jadon Sancho, who might even start for Dortmund this season... I think they might seriously regret this oversight... instead of spending so much time, energy and manpower pretending that they were desperately trying to make big moves, they once again lost the plot due to their all too familiar tunnel vision

Before Liverpool can resume their attempt at winning this year's Champions League, though, there is the small matter of securing qualification for next year's tournament.

No it's not just the schools and the school food programs that are the only problems in the USA, but it's a darned good that Jamie Oliver is attempting to make a stab at improving this one small area.

It's not a bad idea to give your daughter a small hand mirror to use so that she can look at and find the vaginal opening before attempting to insert the tampon.

Imagine being the only little person in a small town, or the first little person to attempt a v - birth at a birthing center.

Your newborn might be too small at first, or might require so much two - handed (and visual) guidance to latch on correctly that attempting to nurse lying down is about as restful as trying to wrestle an eel.

But Downing Street later attempted to allay his concerns, insisting the missile defence system is not aimed at Russia but rather a small group of rogue states with nuclear weapons.

On late Wednesday afternoon an RAF patrol identified a force of pro-Gaddafi troops who had been fighting at the Zawiya oil refinery and were attempting to redeploy in a small tugboat along the coast.

At that point, a small but growing number of researchers began attempting to understand, measure and map the shadow world.

Initial results were discouraging: attempts to simply replace the protein therapies with small - molecule drugs that hit the same targets largely failed, says Saeed Fatenejad, a rheumatologist at Pfizer who is responsible for clinical development of tasocitinib.

Previous attempts at correlating disease transmission with human movement have relied on smaller data sets gathered through monitoring how people given GPS tracking devices move over a period of time, for example.

Specifically, Toni Gabaldón's group at the Centre for Genomic Regulation in Barcelona has compared the Iberian lynx genome with those of other species, attempting to identify genes that have lost their function because they have remained isolated and the existence of a small population of specimens of this species.

And although there was only a small uptick in the maternal mortality at the hospital during that time (roughly 4 percent instead of 1 percent) the drop in the number of pregnant patients led caregivers to wonder if women were attempting home births and perhaps dying doing so, she says.

Private citizens have small chance of denting the authority of the Establishment — and certainly not at their first attempt — but Goldstein may well inspire a debate which could run and run and ultimately force a large and healthy change in the way all «closed» trades and professions manage their affairs.

If you don't have access to a kettlebell, supplement with a small dumbbell or beginners can attempt this with no weight at all.

As the body attempts to maintain the integrity of the small intestinal lining at all costs, proteins that would ordinarily be used for normal growth and repair elsewhere may be appropriated instead for emergency repairs in the intestinal tract.45, 46 Furthermore, lectins consumed with the diet may travel through the damaged «leaky gut» into general circulation, provoking allergic reactions and immune system disruption.

Cutting spaghetti into small pieces is a no - no and attempting to eat it one string at a time will literally take forever.

As if online dating werent already a minefield of unfortunate experiences with emotionally devoid small talk and swift attempts at a meaningless hookup, hopeless.

The trouble with that is even in their attempt at genuine kindness, the National Union of Mineworkers are reluctant to accept the LGSM's support because they don't want to be associated with the gay community, so the activist group instead decides that they'll bring their donations directly to a small mining village in Wales named Onllwyn and it's here where the forging of communities makes its memorable punch.