Sentences with phrase «such efforts fail»

Even when such efforts fail, there can be a silver lining.

Such efforts fail 99 % of the time.

If such efforts fail and DACA does expire next year, the health care profession will face a serious challenge, he added.

«If such efforts fail, our way of life will become counter-cultural, always a difficult situation for Christians ¯ one our forebears faced in many ages past, one that the Lord himself predicted for us.

«Bruce Conner: It's All True»: Museums around the world vied over many years for the chance to work with artist Bruce Conner on his retrospective; ultimately, all such efforts failed during his lifetime.

Not exact matches

As evidenced by a number of recent rebranding strategies that failed miserably, even large companies with the staff and resources to implement such an effort sometimes fail to get it right.

While such efforts might boost workplace happiness in the short term, they fail to have any lasting effect on talent retention or performance.

The greatness and inviolability of a subject have never yet exempted those who endeavor to find expression for it from the effort of giving their very best from the artistic point of view; and to fail to fulfill this demand when a religious subject of such a sublime nature as the story of Our Lord is involved, is not merely an aesthetic sin.

These gifts combined with a free university education to so many people for whom there were then no appropriate jobs, as well as a civil war, led to the failure of the experiment failed, but in a time when it is clear, at least to me, that global pursuit of more and more wealth is suicidal for the human race, I think it would be worthwhile to study such efforts.

My revelatory commission forbade me to resort to extrahuman sources of either information or expression until such a time as I could testify that I had failed in my efforts to find the required conceptual expression in purely human sources.

Such efforts are likely to fail more often than they succeed, but even the defeats can be instructive.

There have been intense and motivated efforts over the past two millennia to defend such a position rationally, and they have all failed.

If we fail to make such an effort, we risk isolating Christian faith from cultural and academic life.

players like Ozil always present the fans with a bit of a conundrum, especially when times are tough... if you look around the sporting world every once in awhile there emerges a player with incredible skill, like Ozil, Matt Sundin or even Jay Cutler, who have a different way about themselves... their movement seemed almost too lackadaisical, so much so that it seemed to suggest indifference or even disinterest on the part of the player... their posture always appears somewhat mopey and they generally have an unflattering «sour puss» expression on their face... for some their above average skills are enough to keep them squarely in the mix, as their respective teams try desperately to find a way to get the best out of them visa vie player acquisitions or the reworking of tactics... when things go according to planned the fans usually find a way to accept their unique disposition, whereas when things go awry they become easy targets for fans and pundits alike... in the case of Ozil and Sundin, their successes on the international stage and / or with their former teams led many to conclude that if we surrounded such talented individuals with players that have those skills that would most likely bring the best of these players success would surely follow... unfortunately both the Maple Leafs and our club chose to adopt half - measures, as each were being run by corporations who valued profitability over providing the best possible product on the field... for them, they cared more about shirt sales and season tickets than doing whatever was necessary... this isn't, by any stretch, an attempt to absolve Ozil of any responsibility for his failures on the pitch... there is no doubt oftentimes his efforts were underwhelming, to say the least, but this club has been inept when it comes to providing this prolific passer with the kind of players necessary for him to flourish... with our poor man's version of Benzema up front, the headless chickens in Walcott, the younger Ox and Welbeck occupying wide positions far too often and the fact that Carzola, who provided Ozil with great service and more freedom to roam, was never truly replaced, the only real skilled outlet on the pitch was Sanchez... remember to be considered a world - class set - up man goals need to be scored and for much of his time here he has been surrounded by some incredibly inept finishers... in the end, I'm not sure how long he will be in North London, recent sentiments and his present contract situation seem to suggest that he will depart at season's end, but how tragic would it be if once again we didn't put our best foot forward and failed to make those moves that could have brought championship football back to our once beloved club... so when you think about this uniquely skilled player don't be so quick to shift all the blame on his shoulders because he will not be the first or the last highly skilled player to find disappointment at the Emirates if we don't rid the club of those individuals that are truly to blame for our current woes

While my efforts to persuade the Board of Selectmen, the town manager, and the Rec Department director to allocate permits in a more equitable fashion, and to use their power to make sure that the programs using town - owned facilities met minimum standards for inclusiveness and safety, fell on deaf ears (we ended up being forced to use for our home games a dusty field the high school had essentially abandoned), I returned to a discussion of the «power of the venue permit» 10 years later in my 2006 book, Home Team Advantage: The Critical Role of Mothers in Youth Sports, where I suggested that one of the best ways for youth sports parents to improve the safety of privately - run sports programs in their communities was to lobby their elected officials to utilize that power to «reform youth sports by exercising public oversight over the use of taxpayer - funded fields, diamonds, tracks, pools, and courts, [and] deny permits to programs that fail to abide by a [youth sports] charter» covering such topics as background checks, and codes of conduct for coaches, players, and parents.

That effort failed when the USDA ultimately informed lawmakers that the agency's lawyers found USDA lacking the legal authority to grant such waivers.

Decades of effort to demonstrate that high calcium diets chiefly derived from dairy products build strong bones have failed to prove any such correlation.

When a troubled teen fails to respond to outpatient treatment or efforts by the authority figures in his life, it may be time to consider a more intensive program such as a therapeutic boarding school.

But such conclusions fail to explain why India is a reluctant partner in the international effort to protect rights.

Flanagan indicated he wanted a broad - based review of economic development spending, including some areas that are potentially sensitive to Cuomo, such as the money his administration spends on advertising job - creating efforts and a review of the «lack of accountability for major deals and projects that fail miserably when it comes to creating jobs.»

Efforts to get the reaction of the SUF members, such as Tinubu, Marafa and Hunkuyi, who were made chairmen of «juicy committees», failed as none of them agreed to speak with The PUNCH on the issue.

Such a committee comes after efforts this year to overhaul the state's campaign - finance laws failed in the Legislature.

In accord with his stance on discretionary spending, Mulvaney has tended to favor efforts to cut or constrain dollars for science agencies, such as his 2012 vote in support of a failed amendment to cut $ 1.3 billion — nearly a fifth of the budget — from the National Science Foundation.

In acknowledgement of such efforts, the commission has awarded these institutions the «HR Excellence in Research» label, which they can lose should they fail to report sufficient progress every 4 years.

One of the complaints is that UN agencies such as the WHO, UNICEF and the UN Development Programme have failed to coordinate their efforts.

Many previous efforts to overhaul the TSCA failed after lawmakers couldn't strike a consensus among competing interest groups, such as chemical companies and environmental groups.

Body shame is so prevalent in our culture, you might frequently find yourself caught up in other people's body drama — such as a conversation about your sister's failing efforts to stay on Whole30 or your coworker's guilt about gaining a few pounds.

Yet without such effort, my body fails rapidly and I can't stand that.

Efforts to grow the trees on cultivated land often fail because it is difficult for the species of bee required for pollination to survive in such an environment.

Weinstein flirts gently with slapstick throughout, such as in Menashe's mishaps with a vanload of gefilte fish, or his failed efforts to bake kugel for the memorial.

Knaggs» career reached a peak in the mid -»40s, when he worked in supporting roles in ambitious major studio films such as None but the Lonely Heart (a fascinating but failed attempt at a serious drama by Cary Grant) and unusual independently made features like Douglas Sirk's early Hollywood effort Thieves» Holiday, while also making the rounds of such popular medium - budget Universal Pictures productions as House of Dracula, The Invisible Man's Revenge, and Terror By Night.

Additionally appearing in such made - for - television efforts as Fail Safe and An American Daughter (both 2001), Rothaar has also made frequent appearances in television's JAG.

The protagonist is such a profoundly boring and uncharismatic character, as played by Jack Lowden, that it falls to these successive manic pixie dream girl archetypes to push him into doing really anything at all, and when his efforts fail - which they almost always do - they are cast aside.

Even Niccol's failed efforts such as Simone and Lord of War were more interesting than most of the drivel squeezed out by the Hollywood meat grinder, so consider us excited.

The Divergent Series: Allegiant is the latest genre effort to fail at the box office, and trend could leave such films with female protagonists in cinema purgatory

A discombobulated effort with such distinctive sequences, it fails to maintain a full arc.

Some home - school advocacy groups have attempted to secure a federal law or Supreme Court ruling that would establish uniform national guidelines grounded in First or Fourteenth Amendment rights, but to date such efforts have failed (to the great relief of home - school advocacy groups that oppose this strategy).

State efforts at carrying out requirements to test English - language learners under the No Child Left Behind Act are receiving increased scrutiny, as hundreds of schools across the country fail to meet goals for adequate yearly progress at least in part because of such students» scores.

However, this effort failed in 1973 as a result of the Supreme Court's ruling in San Antonio v. Rodriquez that such claims did not have a basis under federal equal protection laws.

But they argue that without trusting relationships among teachers, principals, parents, and students, such efforts are likely doomed to fail.

The accountability systems encouraged all manner of dubious practices, such as focusing teacher effort on a small subset of students at risk of failing the exams rather than advancing every child's learning.

In an effort to make a potentially dry subject («governance and politics in education») come to life, I asked each of my students to identify one at - risk student and research the student's life, trying to determine how schools meet or fail to meet such...

All states have been actively engaged in efforts to turnaround failing schools, but the effectiveness of such efforts has varied dramatically across jurisdictions.

Yet despite research such as this, reform efforts often have failed to acknowledge teachers» existing knowledge, beliefs and attitudes, according to Gray and Bryce (2006).

The move towards collaboration in places such as Delaware offers great potential for improving teaching and learning conditions, but efforts to spread PLCs run the risk of being labeled «another policy fad» if we fail to provide educators with the support and autonomy necessary to make PLCs worthwhile.

MADISON — Assembly Republicans are backing off their plan to force failing public schools to be converted into independent charter schools in an effort to reach a deal with Gov. Scott Walker and state senators who opposed such a penalty.

Combine these realities with moves such as the AFT's failed lawsuit against New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg's school reform efforts and revelations such as those last week by Dropout Nation, and suddenly, the pitch from teachers» unions is as failed as their vision for American public education.

The School Improvement Grant program attempts to accomplish what previous reform efforts have failed to do: make a real difference for children facing the dire challenges of poverty, such as unstable housing, neighborhood violence and parents with limited education.

The bill failed to pass despite massive amounts of money and effort being poured into Tennessee to advance vouchers, by groups such as Students First and the American Federation for Children (of which Secretary DeVos is the former chairwoman.)

But such efforts can fail unless the author has a body of work to draw upon and act as a lure.