Sentences with phrase «substantial effort by»

Despite substantial efforts by the Mexican government to protect vaquitas, the recovery team recently reviewed the latest results from advanced acoustic monitoring technology that showed the vaquita population continuing to rapidly decline.

«This milestone culminates substantial efforts by our company working with the FAA to position Southwest as a leading participant in a modernized air traffic control system.»

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Mishkin noted «I am less optimistic about the prospects for core PCE inflation to move much below 2 % in the absence of a determined effort by monetary policy,» adding that «a substantial further decline in inflation would require a shift in expectations, and such a shift could be difficult and time - consuming to bring about.»

The Subscriber further acknowledges that the Indices were compiled, prepared, revised, selected and arranged through the application of methods and standards of judgment developed and applied through the expenditure of substantial time, effort, and money by Barclays Capital and constitute valuable commercial property and / or trade secrets of Barclays Capital.

Thanks to the Robert W. Wilson Innovation Fund, the Rainforest Alliance undertakes efforts across the globe that expand our scope of impact by delivering greater value to our stakeholders and creating more substantial benefits in the ecosystems and communities where we work.

There were no periods of possession enjoyed by either of the sides, nor were there any substantial efforts on target, as Fabianski and Daniels were left to be mere spectators.

According to the source, all efforts by the government team to reach labour leaders in the state on their mobile and contacts have proved abortive, as the leaders remain adamant that a substantial part of their arrears must be settled before they can call off the strike.

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Conversely, climate policy that results in little or no effort to control greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide would likely result in a substantial release of carbon from the permafrost region by 2300, the study found.

By calling for re-energizing CCS development, PCAST is making two judgments: 1) that the coal industry is highly likely to remain competitive even as it complies with EPA restrictions on emissions of SOx, NOx, Hg, and other toxics; and 2) that a substantial price on carbon is highly likely to arrive in a time frame of relevance for a CCS development effort.

New research from Carnegie's Ivana Cvijanovic (now at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory) and Ken Caldeira, as well as Douglas MacMartin of Caltech, shows that while an incredibly large effort could, in principle, restore vast amounts of sea ice by this method, it would not result in substantial cooling.

However, registration of cardiac arrests was prospective and uniform, following the standardized Utstein style for reporting out - of - hospital cardiac arrest and revised for data quality assurance by the RACE - CARS team.18 Our results support efforts of other communities seeking to improve bystander and first - responder intervention, since they come from a quality - improvement database of a substantial portion of the state of North Carolina, with stable reporting over a 4 - year period during a broad implementation program that used a standardized protocol, as recommended by the American Heart Association.13, 20,40

«Substantial effort is being expended to personalize cancer treatment by gaining a better understanding of the genetics of an individual patient's cancer,» Wahl says.

The direction by David Leitch (who was, indeed, an uncredited co-director of John Wick) is brisk and fluid, and the script, which Reynolds co-wrote with Deadpool scribes Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick is, as noted, a substantial upgrade on that earlier effort.

The Atlantic: The direction by David Leitch is brisk and fluid, and the script, which Reynolds co-wrote with Deadpool scribes Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick is, as noted, a substantial upgrade on that earlier effort.

A consensus for change is developing, but as Bridget Terry Long points out in a new policy proposal commissioned by the Hamilton Project, reform efforts often sidestep substantial questions about how to improve academic preparation and — importantly — help students avoid remedial placement altogether...

That is, aggregate rewards are smaller if any state acts without comparable efforts by others; at the same time, even the gains of acting independently are substantial.

But after substantial progress in the 1970s and»80s, the effort has largely stalled, except for a brief period from 1999 to 2004, where there were some gains, particularly in reading, according to a report released this month by the Educational Testing Service, which develops standardized tests used across the country.

A substantial portion of these gains may be produced by the simple reallocation of time and effort.

And its evaluation of the efforts reported by nearly 1,600 school systems concluded that fewer than half the programs could be called «substantial» in terms of the time...

These substantial increases have been driven by key factors beginning with increased national awareness of the crisis of low high school graduation rates, and efforts to spotlight the problem.

Ralph Smith, managing director of the Campaign for Grade - Level Reading, a collaborative effort of political, education, business and advocacy leaders to close the nation's literacy gap, said «We shouldn't be at all surprised by the NAEP scores... we can point to nothing substantial in terms of interventions or programs that would have made that number different.»

An initial review of the 1201 (a) MOE certifications revealed that that there is substantial variation among the States in the way they calculated and certified to their planned level of effort regarding State funding for the types of projects that are funded by the Recovery Act for the statutory period of February 17, 2009 through September 30, 2010.

Barnes & Noble says that before publishers enacted agency pricing, it could not compete against Amazon: «[a] s a result of Amazon's pricing (which priced most bestselling books sold by Barnes & Noble below Barnes & Noble's, and Amazon's, direct costs), Barnes & Noble was losing substantial money in an effort to compete with Amazon's pricing, and was unable to gain significant market share.»

The debt settlement companies examined by the States can not demonstrate any justification for their substantial advance fees based on the effort required to set up an account.

As a brief overview, the Management and Board have embarked upon a failed merger that garnered virtually no support from its shareholders, and was opposed by ISS, and continued on that path until the date of the special shareholders meeting and scheduled vote, spending lavishly in a failed effort to close it; attempted to implement substantial new options to itself, a plan opposed by ISS and the shareholders, which was withdrawn; continually paid itself outrageous sums of the shareholders money over the past three years; rejected highly qualified outside board members with deep, broad healthcare company experience supported by its shareholders; held many Board and Committee meetings with nothing to show for it; formed a new Strategic Transactions Committee that is highly paid but that has produced no deals for the shareholders to consider or for any outside valuation experts to formally review; spent lavishly on accountants, auditors and counsel; failed to successfully hire any outside professional negotiators and finally extinguish or remove the outstanding lease obligations; distributed no cash to the shareholders despite holding excess amounts; formed no special purpose entity to hold any royalty and milestone rights and payments for the benefit of its shareholders; and thus generally failed in its fiduciary duties to shareholders.

Thanks to the substantial efforts put forth by their caregivers, both of these dogs are thriving, although we certainly do not know for how long.

Examples of the museum's ongoing efforts of acquisition and programming in this area include substantial gifts of miniature paintings from Mr. and Mrs. John Kenneth Galbraith (Catherine Atwater, class of 1934) and the exhibitions, «The Way I Remember Them:» Paintings by Nusra Latif Qureshi (2004) and Dislocation / Negotiating Identity: Contemporary Photographs from South and Southeast Asia (2016).

A Los Angeles Times article few days ago provided a fresh look at the tussle over global warming in classrooms, focusing on a move by the National Center for Science Education to add a substantial climate component to its longstanding effort to keep ideology and religion out of classes on biology and evolution.

Some researchers do worry that if the Pentagon activities simply displace efforts previously carried out by other agencies, there could be substantial risks.

We need to start thinking in practical terms about how to get the technologies we need ready — as the authors say, «deep energy system decarbonization is likely to require an ambitious, focused agenda of rapid innovation and improvement in every critical technology area, even those commercially available today, as well as substantial «demand pull» efforts and policies to ensure early demonstration, industry maturation, scale - up, and «learning by doing.

Setting aside the word propaganda, I will readily assert that there has been a longstanding and well - financed effort to raise public concern by downplaying substantial, persistent and legitimate uncertainty about the worst - case outcomes from greenhouse - driven warming and over-attributing the link between such warming and climate - related disasters and other events.

The European Parliament's Environment Committee voted on its position on the Effort Sharing Regulation 30 May, and proposed quite substantial improvements to the original draft by the European Commission.

3) «Climate Destruction Sponsors» — There are some extremely wealthy people, most of which have or have had substantial investments in fossil fuel extraction and sales who have funded climate science denial efforts by institutions such as the Competitive Enterprise Institute and the Heartland Institute as a means of delaying action on climate change.

The explanation for this, though, rests on an understanding of wider political and economic interests — could it be, perhaps, that this is the result of the billions of pounds pumped into the economy by professional denialist foundations such as Nigel Lawson's Global Warming Policy Foundation and the legions of right wing Tory backers (not to mention the combined, and substantial efforts, of the global oil industry and other vested interests) which influence, through their ownership, most of the mainstream media?

Fueled by the intense and relentless lobbying efforts of insurance companies, legislative agendas designed to limit the liability doctors, nurses, surgeons and other medical professionals face in cases of medical malpractice have been gaining substantial ground during the past ten years.

You acknowledge and agree that the Firm has expended substantial time and effort to create the Firm Website, and the Content and Services provided through the Firm Website, and that the Firm exclusively owns or has been licensed by third parties to use and sublicense all rights, title and interest therein and all associated information, data, databases, images and other material.

Except for a typographical correction of a small amount, Former Attorney — by having good records and showing a willingness to take the stand for purposes of explaining the overall litigation efforts — won a substantial fee award from Former Clients who, while disgruntled, apparently did not rebut that the performed services should be paid.

The IMC continued: «That decision and the efforts invested by the leadership of the republican movement in presenting the arguments in favour of the change were further substantial evidence of their commitment to the democratic process.»

You acknowledge that the Services have been developed, compiled, prepared, revised, selected, and arranged by How - To Geek and others through the application of methods and standards of judgment developed and applied through the expenditure of substantial time, effort, and money and constitute valuable intellectual property of How - To Geek and such others.

Supply chain sources said that the unit cost for 3D sensors adopted by latest iPhone devices hit a high of US$ 60 as the technology involves substantial efforts in the development of software, hardware and system integration, significantly pushing up smartphone costs.

Significantly exceeded continuous improvement goal of $ 600,000 by a substantial margin through lean and continuous improvement efforts.

Further, when issues are challenging or tensions run high, the divorce mediation process, once begun, can always be abandoned without substantial commitment or effort by either party.

These substantial increases have been driven by key factors beginning with increased national awareness of the crisis of low high school graduation rates, and efforts to spotlight the problem.

To show misappropriation, plaintiffs must typically show that they've made a substantial investment of time, effort, and money in creating the thing that was misappropriated; that the defendant has appropriated the thing at little or no cost; and that the defendant's acts have injured the plaintiff, such as by taking profits.

Thaler referred to the announcement earlier this year by National Credit Union Administration Chairman Debbie Matz to NAFCU that the agency will consider credit unions» «good faith efforts toward substantial compliance» with the new TILA / RESPA rule for credit unions the agency examines.