Sentences with phrase «small number of attempts»

There were a small number of attempts like Need for Speed: ProStreet, but the quality was vastly inferior to the PS3 and 360.

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.

A third contingent, the smallest, make a wholesale switch to the new technology or business model, attempting to make smaller margins on a larger number of transactions, with mixed results.

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.

That leaves Sprint in a position where it could try to merge with a smaller player or attempt to roll up a number of companies that could leverage Sprint's customer base as well as its spectrum.

Nevertheless, as we have seen, there is a small but growing number of scientists, both in physics and biology, who operate with a relational model, who see some correspondence between the constructs of the mind and reality itself, however inexact, and who also see the possibility of restoring the experience of meaning if the non-human natural world is perceived as dynamic, creative, full of life and purpose, whom process thinkers have engaged in conversation; together they have attempted to explore new visions of reality better suited for adaptation to the urgent needs of the contemporary world.

A smaller number of philosophers do attempt to defend it, and many others, even if they rarely discuss the question directly, show their materialistic bias when they discuss such questions as the mind - body relation.

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

On about the fourth attempt to move in close, I crossed a small clearing and was about to swing around a bush when over it I saw a number of birds wing into the air with loud chirping.

It seems to me that as long as the number of women choosing home births is small, then the absolute number of deaths / injuries will be small (though we know not as a % of attempts).

Instead, the party with the largest number of seats — in this case, it looks like the Conservatives — will attempt to form a coalition government with one of the smaller parties.

Only a small number of districts attempted to get the 60 percent supermajority they need to override the tax cap and increase their spending.

Frankencell J. Craig Venter's attempt to create an artificial cell containing the smallest possible number of essential genes.

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

The researchers note that a limitation of the study is the relatively small number of people on which xenodiagnosis was attempted.

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.

You know it's computer calculations I mean it was the first sort of computerized attempt to forecast the future and, of course it's models are crude, and there's a fairly small number of variables, but they keep...

While there have been attempts to estimate real - time death risks during epidemics, such statistical models require data from large numbers of patients in the order of thousands and therefore could not be applied to the 2015 MERS epidemic in the Republic of Korea with small patient numbers.

Attempts to use a small number of biomarkers, whether analytes in blood, cerebrospinal fluid, or a handful of genetic loci, have not yielded diagnostically useful tests for CFS.

A small number of studies and numerous media reports have attempted to capture the reactions of public school officials to these new threats to their enrollments and revenues.

This special report, «Joining Forces,» examines the attempts by a small but growing number of districts and unions to work together to enhance the knowledge and skills of teachers and, in turn, improve the achievement of schoolchildren.

A small but growing number of teacher union locals have attempted to go beyond the industrial unionism model by fashioning new ways of organizing teaching around high - quality practice and high - performing schools.

This special report examines examines the attempts by a small but growing number of districts and unions to work together to enhance the knowledge and skills of teachers and, in turn, improve the achievement of schoolchildren.

Although few policymakers and wonks are talking about it, a small but growing number of schools are attempting to boost the achievement of low - income students by shifting enrollment to place more low - income students in mixed - income schools.

Monkey Business — Anthony Pritchard recalls Harry Lester and his MG specials and the small but determined team who drove them in competition / Brighton Bound — Our correspondent on Veteran matters Elizabeth Bennett reports on the 2001 London - Brighton Run / Rainbow's End — Designed by Frank Rainbow the Swallow Doretti was a brave attempt by an engineering group to make a British sports car for the American market / Baldwin's Brescia — Nick Baldwin has owned a very special Brescia Bugatti for a number of years.

While Amazon and Barnes & Noble represent some of the larger companies currently operating in the e-reader market, and Apple's upcoming iPad incorporates robust e-book technology, a number of smaller players have been attempting to seize their own piece of the rapidly expanding market.

5) The numbers above include noncommercial writing, hobbyist books, one - off publications written simply to be shared with family members or small communities, and other projects by those not attempting to make a career out of writing.

Finally, some animal advocates explicitly attempt to do work, such as promoting antispeciesism, that helps all animals, including those in the wild and those under human control.25 This work potentially affects the largest number of animals, but only a relatively small number more than work aimed exclusively at helping animals in the wild.

It has come to our attention that a small number of people are having trouble when attempting to launch the PS3 version of Frozen Synapse Prime, specifically when trying to progress past the «Change Screen Space» section of the initial launch process.

Sadly, the online mode seems to have a very small community right now, and despite a number of attempts, I was unable to find any games.

Obviously, there's going to be a smaller pool of players available for games like the 3DS titles, which severely limits the number of people who can go around catching Pokemon and attempting to hit that goal.

After a number of attempts I settled on one small black and white photographic portrait of a dog.

In this piece, Broad attempts to discredit Gore's «An Inconvenient Truth» by exaggerating the legitimate, but minor, criticisms of his treatment of the science by experts on climate science, and presenting specious or unsubstantiated criticisms by a small number of the usual, well - known contrarians who wouldn't agree even if Gore read aloud from the latest IPCC report.

Recently, modelers have undertaken a small number of studies involving coupled atmosphere - ocean GCMs that attempted to quantify the importance of atmosphere - ocean interactions for climate change.

If not, retailers are left with no civil redress against the high number of shoplifters who actually pay for a portion of their purchases while only concealing a small number of items in an attempt to steal.

Amazon offers a smaller number of apps (600,000) than Google Play (over 2.8 million), but the Fire HD 8's Amazon Underground feature attempts to remedy this with free apps, games and in - app purchases.

«Despite these developments, a small number of miners may attempt to go forward with a fork,» David Farmer, Coinbase's director of communications, wrote in a blog post Friday.

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.»

Sadly, it only takes a small number of instances of poor background screening practices before the media attempts to discredit the entire industry.

Most measures had no evidence that they had undergone any sort of psychometric evaluation although a small number of researchers had attempted to evaluate some measurement properties but used dubious methods or the property being assessed fell below suitable quality thresholds as determined by Terwee et al. 12 In addition, some authors referenced that their measure had established psychometric properties but then modified the scale or used it with a completely different population without re-examining the properties in the revised scale.

Four ABFT participants and seven control group participants made low - lethality suicide attempts during the course of treatment, but these numbers are too small for statistical significance analyses.

Consistency of the intervention was attempted by having a small and stable number of therapists.

«We attempted to do an IPO in 1993, when a number of larger retail companies also went public - and we were one of the smaller ones that were unable to complete our offering,» says Ronald Rubin.