Sentences with phrase «subsequent efforts as»

By this point there was little doubt as to Washington's talent, and despite the fact that she would be overshadowed by such big names as Anthony Hopkins and Meg Ryan in such subsequent efforts as Bad Company, The Human Stain, and Against the Ropes, she still managed to make an impression with a series of memorable supporting roles.

Not exact matches

Despite Jung's efforts to position Avon and some of its products as more upscale, if marketers needed to hit a sales goal, they might heavily discount items — a no - no in luxury — in a subsequent catalogue.
As I previously have written, repeal of the personal exemption might adversely affect large and non-traditional families, a possibility that the original reform and Senator Cruz's subsequent effort would mitigate (but not eliminate) by doubling the child tax credit.
In describing and accounting for the lives of the Religious Right, which we define simply as religious conservatives with a considerable involvement in political activity, the book and the series tell the story primarily by focusing on leading episodes in the movement's history, including, but not limited to, the groundwork laid by Billy Graham in his relationships with presidents and other prominent political leaders; the resistance of evangelical and other Protestants to the candidacy of the Roman Catholic John F. Kennedy; the rise of what has been called the New Right out of the ashes of Barry Goldwater's defeat in 1964; a battle over sex education in Anaheim, California, in the mid-1960's; a prolonged cultural war over textbooks in West Virginia in the early 1970's — and that is a battle that has been fought less violently in community after community all over the country; the thrill conservative Christians felt over the election of a «born - again» Christian to the Presidency in 1976 and the subsequent disappointment they experienced when they found out that Jimmy Carter was, of all things, a Democrat; the rise of the Moral Majority and its infatuation with Ronald Reagan; the difficulty the Religious Right has had in dealing with abortion, homosexuality and AIDS; Pat Robertson's bid for the presidency and his subsequent launching of the Christian Coalition; efforts by Dr. James Dobson and Gary Bauer to win a «civil war of values» by changing the culture at a deeper level than is represented by winning elections; and, finally, by addressing crucial questions about the appropriate relationship between religion and politics or, as we usually put it, between church and state.
The quest of «the historical Jesus» - as distinct from the Church's subsequent representations of him - has engaged the efforts of New Testament scholars for the better part of two hundred years.
Its attempt at a JCPenney boycott after the retail chain hired Ellen DeGeneres as its spokeswoman was a memorable fail, while none of its subsequent efforts have made waves.
This reflects the fact that people aren't always good at making hypothetical decisions and don't invest as much effort into considering second and subsequent choices as their first choice.
He also commended the effort of the military in the fight against terrorism and insurgency and respect for human rights as manifested in the painstaking efforts that led to their clearance and subsequent release.
Such excavation work is always done as a group, as is subsequent maintenance efforts.
Dr. Catalano and his colleagues believe that other than beginning a life - course effort in reducing obesity in adolescence as discussed in the other reviews in this series, the post-partum period may well be the best opportunity to help ensure the move towards a healthy body weight and lifestyle for a subsequent pregnancy, which also effects the whole family.
The subsequent efforts to manipulate people were as Strangelovian as you might expect given the times, full of ham - fisted Western chauvinism.
The HGP and subsequent research efforts have changed the consensus view of genes and noncoding DNA, casting them as part of an increasingly complex image of genes, DNA and other components of the genome.
If you don't have a physically active job or aren't able to spend lots of time on your feet during the day, this intensity is important for training the body to use fat as a fuel, especially for individuals who compete in events lasting more than two hours.Although it will be difficult to keep your intensity low on these days, if you've decided that you have lots of time on your hands and the type of training you want to do is primarily aerobic (vs. interval based training), then performing your endurance efforts at a higher intensity than Zone 2 will reduce the effectiveness of your harder workouts on subsequent days by fatiguing muscle and depleting carbohydrate stores in fast - twitch muscle.
A team effort with longtime friend Romano would result in the straight - to - video comedy Grilled in 2006, with subsequent voice work in the animated family comedies Monster House and Barnyard arriving in theaters later that same year.James would maintain his position as a go - to guy for family friendly comedy over the coming years, appearing in films like I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry, Paul Blart: Mall Cop, Grown Ups, and Zookeeper and providing a voice in Hotel Transylvania.
Panned by critics as immature and vulgar, Deuce Bigalow nevertheless did decent business in theaters and found a niche after it's subsequent release on home video, prompting Schneider to prepare a sophmore effort, The Animal.
No, Smith's not a sentient collection of racist gas spores, but as with Trump and the Republican nomination, Smith after Sundance seemed wholly unprepared once his initial efforts to succeed actually worked — and he appeared unwilling to accept the subsequent responsibilities.
Though subsequent efforts have shown great care to stay both true to the original script and culturally accessible to American viewers, this one makes the poor choice of casting 21 - year - old Van Der Beek (just beginning his «Dawson's Creek» run) as a character who sounds about 11 in the original Japanese presentation.
After the first Iron Man, the subsequent efforts occasionally feel like they exist largely to connect to Avengers rather than to stand as narratives in their own right.
Schaefer's subsequent non-TV films were as forgettable as his TV work was memorable; arguably the best of his Hollywood efforts was An Enemy of the People, a 1978 labor of love co-conceived by Schaefer and star Steve McQueen.
The movie, set in 8th - century Norway, follows alien warrior Kainan (Jim Caviezel) as he crash lands on Earth along with a fearsome creature known as the Moorwen, with the bulk of the storyline detailing Kainan's efforts at insinuating himself within a local Viking tribe and leading their subsequent charge against the aforementioned creature.
I suppose that's the wonderful thing about Fuqua, too, as his subsequent efforts Bait and Training Day demonstrate.
As a trustee and subsequent school board president, she became known for her advocacy efforts in closing the achievement gap and setting a higher standard of excellence for all children.
The collaborative, cross-departmental evaluation effort utimately yielded greater understanding and buy - in for evaluation findings and identified meaningful outcomes, such as connections between special programming and subsequent visitor engagement and learning.
As an introduction to the special issue, the article highlights the increased effort to use data in practice and policy, summarizes contributions and limitations of existing research on data use interventions, and previews subsequent articles in the issue.
Students» beliefs about themselves as learners will be caught up in the tangle of any explanations surrounding the assessments, and as we know, decades of research demonstrate the power of student belief to be a factor impacting subsequent effort and persistence in learning.
Remember, this year's Los Angeles School Board race was the most expensive school board election in U.S. history, as the powerful charter lobby ran candidates in an ultimately successful effort to gain a pro-charter majority on the board in this city that is desperately fighting against charter expansion and the subsequent financial strangling of Los Angeles Unified School District.
Jacobs described new, harder tests connected to the standards as the «lightening rod,» which, when paired with the simultaneous rollout of test - based consequences for teachers, has incited not only inflammatory rhetoric, but subsequent pushback — with some states seeming to delay accountability efforts indefinitely.
If your goal is to make sense of your struggles or share a family history, your approach to writing and subsequent marketing efforts will be different than if you are using it as a marketing tool to promote your business.
As a long - time book reviewer and observer of other people's book marketing efforts... I've reviewed a lot of books for authors who have approached me directly, but very few come back and ask me to review subsequent books.
It will be a lot of effort for the first book, but many will volunteer to review subsequent books as well if you ask.
This was most likely done in an effort to save on customer service costs, as finding an income - driven repayment plan for borrowers and the subsequent paperwork takes much more time than simply switching a borrower to forbearance.
Sponsored by the Los Angeles County Arts Commission, the main idea of «Project Willowbrook» was to develop a creative profile of the community of 35,000 people that can now help guide subsequent efforts to meet Willowbrook's cultural needs as the county invests hundreds of millions of dollars in the new Martin Luther King Jr..
A sort of Salon des Refusés (whose precedents may be tracked through the subsequent succession of more independent minded efforts, from Kurt Schwitters's Merzbau to Donald Judd's sited galleries in Marfa), The Bell is at once a monument to the artist and an anti-monument, as Smithson defined it.
IPCC has not been integrally involved in the development of either the RCP's or, should they materialize, the SDP's; but IPCC has been the motivating force behind their creation and its leadership certainly anticipates that they will play the same role in subsequent assessments as the SRES trajectories did in past efforts.
War - time efforts such as the Battle of the Coral Sea, and fights to control the islands of Peleliu, Midway, Iwo Jima, the Philippines, or subsequent nuclear testing on the Bikini Atoll.
It means that a thorough and objective look must be taken at the research work that was done, and at how it was done, before the work can be accepted and relied upon as the foundational basis of other follow - on work efforts — including the addition of such caveats as may apply in performing subsequent work which uses the research product as a basis.
Strengthen their commitment to the free and unrestricted exchange of meteorological and related data and products; Increase the volume of data and products exchanged to meet the needs of WMO Programs; Assist other Members, to the extent possible, and as agreed, by providing additional data and products in support of time - sensitive operations regarding severe weather warnings; Strengthen their commitments to the WMO and ICSU WDCs in their collection and supply of meteorological and related data and products on a free and unrestricted basis; Implement the practice on the international exchange of meteorological and related data and products, as described in Adopts (1) to (3) above; Make known to all Members, through the WMO Secretariat, those meteorological and related data and products which have conditions related to their re-export for commercial purposes outside of the receiving country or group of countries forming a single economic group; Make their best efforts to ensure that the conditions which have been applied by the originator of additional data and products are made known to initial and subsequent recipients; *» Free and unrestricted» means non-discriminatory and without charge.
But the DOE paper itself, as well as subsequent debates about it, left out many important parts of the environmental movement and their contributions to keeping environmentalism alive: environmental - health advocates, the environmental - justice movement, the international «sustainability» movement, and the dozens of other grassroots efforts related to the environment.
Thanks to publications such as ABC's report: Sudden Death on the High Seas — Longline Fishing, a Global Catastrophe for Seabirds and subsequent advocacy efforts by ABC and others seabird deaths in Hawai'i and Alaska are down by up to 85 %.
The resolution expresses the CBA's view that to achieve «a reconciliation of the prior occupation of Canada by Indigenous societies with the subsequent assertion of Crown sovereignty» as required by s. 35 of the Constitution Act, 1982, an effort must be made to appoint aboriginal judges to appellate level Canadian courts, including the Supreme Court of Canada.
As the court interpreted the two reports together, it concluded that the trial judge could have reasonably decided that the reports constituted a good faith effort to summarize the causal relationship between the defendant's alleged failure to comply with the standard of care and Hathcock's injuries and subsequent damages.
Here's an excellent article on some of the steps being taken by law firms to improve the recruiting process (based on best practices employed in other professional services industries such as consulting) in an effort to make better matches and cut down on some of the subsequent turnover that has over 55 % of associates leaving their firms after 5 years.
As her airborne chat with the banker made clear, and her subsequent research confirmed, companies» well - intended diversity training efforts usually don't resolve any issues and often make matters worse by making men «feel they are being punished,» — a surefire recipe for resentment and resistance.
«As the transcript... reveals, the chambers judge's focus was on the lack of effort on the mother's part «to normalize the relationship with the father» and what he concluded were her attempts to alienate their daughters from their father subsequent to Dr. La Torre's second report.
What did it mean to you to have the REALTOR ® organization undertake this effort and subsequent efforts, such as the Hurricane Katrina relief?
But the sense of satisfaction that came from NAR's 9/11 effort and subsequent relief efforts remain as strong today as they did in those uncertain days of fall 2001.
In explaining a July 1998 sale of his company, then known as The Prudential Florida Realty, to The St. Joe Co., and its subsequent identity change, Cope said, «We have great respect for the Prudential organization and enjoyed our tenure there, but we believe the growth in our company has come from our own efforts and initiative rather than the national umbrella.
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