Sentences with phrase «such low effort»

The sad fact is that it was the Wii itself that created the space for such low effort games.

Popcorn is such a low effort snack that can really be something special.

Not exact matches

Swiss drug giant Novartis is partnering with California - based Science 37 in an effort to expand clinical study participation (while lowering the costs of such studies) through «virtual» trials.

By 2013, they had fallen to $ 1.46 billion, despite the company's efforts to steady the business in the last couple of years through steps such as improving reps» cut of the action, and streamlining its product assortment to focus on lower - priced products.

Successfully addressing such an issue will take much more time and effort, and will have a lower chance of getting the desired pay - off — the «thumbs up» rating in the impending follow - up email.

But there isn't such a computer, and without proportional representation, our valiant efforts at voting our principles are undermined or rendered neutral by a crude system designed to favour incumbents and lower expectations of what is possible.

The federal Affordable Care Act has several provisions designed to promote such efforts as a way to lower health care costs.

«These efforts vary greatly in intensity and popularity, and have manifested in a variety of forms, such as legislation for close - in - age exemptions to age of consent laws, advocacy to change the way age of consent laws are examined in court, to lower the age limits, and reduce related penalties.»

Each beverage company may undertake additional activities including: introducing and expanding new lower - calorie products and smaller - portion packages; product placement such as end aisle and checkout displays featuring only reduced - calorie beverages; merchandising efforts such as repositioning reduced - calorie beverages on shelves; providing coupons and other incentives promoting no / lower - calorie options; and taste tests / sampling programs in and out of store.

The beverage companies will utilize a range of marketplace activities in these Little Rock neighborhoods in an effort to help people reduce their calories: such as making lower - calorie and smaller - portion beverages more available in stores, providing incentives for consumers to try these options and displaying new calorie awareness messages at points of sale.

He's turned round players who had previously flattered to deceive such as Danny Drinkwater and Jamie Vardy and got every last ounce of effort out of a squad which in a certain light, has an alarmingly lower league hue.

This guide is designed to assist countries with limited resources in their efforts to reduce neonatal mortality and to ensure care for newborn babies with problems due to complications of pregnancy and childbirth, such as asphyxia, sepsis, and low birth weight or preterm birth.

«Low» included indirect male engagement strategies such as general mass outreach efforts such as community health fairs and mass media campaigns; «high» included male engagement strategies with direct personal contact, such as interpersonal communication through home visits or through groups such as community - based organizations.

Many moms, however, report that extreme efforts to promote the benefits of breastfeeding, such as a lower risk of SIDS or chronic disease later on in life, has contributed to a culture that shames mothers who can not exclusively breastfeed, as does judgment from finger - wagging family members and friends.

«We shouldn't be blaming mothers that our rates were so low,» said Bartick, «because mothers are not supported well and their efforts to breastfeed are undermined by such things as poor hospital practices.»

«Spending cuts inevitably hit those on low and middle incomes, while taxes - such as a Robin Hood Tax and real efforts to deal with tax avoidance - can be targeted on those who can afford to pay.

Building such efforts into our tourism economy, I have assisted in the introduction and expansion of creative, low - impact forms of development, such as support for film production and agricultural tourism and the construction of the Maurice D. Hinchey Catskill Interpretive Center.

State lawmakers allocated more than $ 600,000 for prevention and research efforts, such as funding Cornell University's program that distributes rabies vaccines to wild animals with low - flying planes and low - cost rabies clinics for pets.

Such concerns related to the issue of the digital divide and ageism stress the need for lowering elders» level of expected efforts for using new technology.

What proved possible included an extension of the Kyoto Protocol for a period of either five or seven years (excluding Canada, Japan and Russia but adding nitrogen trifluoride, used in semiconductor manufacture, to the list of gases covered — CO2, methane, nitrous oxide, sulfur hexafluoride, perfluorocarbons), a Green Climate Fund to help low - income countries cope (albeit without any actual funds yet), an Adaptation Committee to coordinate such efforts globally, rules for a global program to reduce deforestation and how to monitor such deforestation, and a Climate Technology Center that will help launch projects to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

The low - carbon fuel standard orders providers to reduce the carbon intensity of their fuels by 10 percent by 2020 through efforts such as blending in biofuels that result in less greenhouse gases emitted when burned.

«Risks related to economic adversity will in all likelihood not be mitigated by efforts to bolster interpersonal support such as marriage support programs targeted to low - income parents,» concludes Kingston.

These efforts range from basic research about how polymers and other materials will react during the heating and deposition process to more industrial applications, such as developing a lower - cost, high - temperature process for working with thermoplastics used to make air and space vehicle components.

But even a university's efforts to communicate such policies can be perceived as dismissive of low - SES students» needs when the message also emphasizes, for example, that «only half of our students require financial aid,» as the authors found.

We suspect that many of these new candidates at the low signal - to - noise limit may be false alarms created by instrumental noise, and discuss our efforts to identify such objects.

The inclusion of tumors is based on availability and representativity, however, an effort has been made to include high and low grade malignancies where such is applicable.

Efforts are underway to develop medications that inhibit vision loss additionally to IOP lowering, but no such medications are currently available.

I imagine that a formidable challenge for many young scientists is the decision to remain in academia when there are other paths that could bring more money for less effort, especially with such low levels of government funding for research.

The first piece of Mildrexler and colleagues» effort was the creation of a forest vulnerability index that, in effect, relates climatic drivers of vulnerability, such as extreme temperature and low precipitation, directly to physiological stress factors, which reduce photosynthesis and deteriorate forest health.

In addition, while it's true that most types of cardio are counterproductive to bulking efforts, performing some steady state cardio exercises such as low intensity jogging and cycling two or three times per week can help you meet your fitness goals and support better health without endangering precious muscle mass.

Because your aerobic base can do that, then it doesn't have to rely very much on the anaerobic system when you're talking about low or moderate efforts, such as working, moving around, yardwork, etc..

Why fad diets such as low carb or low fat diets may actually HINDER your efforts for a lean sexy body... They can actually disturb your hormonal balance and program your body to be fatter in the long run!

High - intensity training is traditionally considered the primary approach for improvements in competitive performance.5 However, some studies demonstrate that lower intensity training also results in fitness improvements in endurance athletes.6, 7 Endurance competitions such as the Ironman triathlon do not rely on maximal efforts, but instead are typically much lower, such as 70 — 75 % of VO2max.

For these sorts of extremely low load high velocity movements, where smaller muscle groups are the prime movers (such as the rotators and deltoids), maximum effort work should be more directed towards the core, with the athlete concentrating on high resistance abdominal rotations and back / shoulder movements to build up the structures that support the arm.

A handful of earlier films had examined (for some, exploited) juvenile delinquency but these productions, such as Youth Runs Wild (Mark Robson, 1944) and I Accuse My Parents (Sam Newfield, 1945), had been low budget efforts of smaller studios.

I like many qualities of Lynn Shelton's work (Humpday, Your Sister's Sister) and her latest, low - key effort has particular promise because it has such a strong, well - chosen cast, led by Rosemarie DeWitt, Ellen Page, Scoot McNairy, Josh Pais, Allison Janney, and Ron Livingston.

The same can not be said for Bruce Willis, who has retreated to a strange corner of cinema these days, giving the bare minimum effort, and showing up in low - budget cop dramas such as Acts of Violence.

Accountability provisions such as these are likely to be muted under the new NCLB waivers, which stipulate that states must focus their improvement efforts on the lowest - performing 15 % of schools, but de-emphasize performance of student sub-groups in every school.

Certainly, the history of school accountability and efforts to improve low - performing schools under IASA would justify such suspicions, and some examples of what schools are doing in response to NCLB restructuring sound very feeble.

Moreover, even where districts have taken these steps in an effort to buffer the impact on their lowest achieving students, such policies have been only partially effective.

Such efforts share a single set of beliefs: Low - income kids are capable of achieving at the highest levels; great schools can make a world of difference; the traditional urban school district is not the only path to great schools.

However, school closings come with other costs, and recent intensive efforts at improving low - performing schools, such as the School Improvement Grant program, have shown promise.

Mr Herrington said that such efforts may involve pairing struggling schools with others, but would also involve working with academy sponsors to find out if there were additional ways in which they could be supported, including through things such as the DfE's new Talented Leaders programme which encourages high - performing headteachers to consider working in lower - performing parts of the country.

Put simply, contrary to the arguments of many White Democrats (as well as pundits such as Jonathan Chait of New York, Frank Bruni of the New York Times and academic Mark Lilla), focusing on the efforts of Black, Latino, immigrant, and low - income communities for economic, social and political equality (which has often been derisively called «identity politics»), is critical to Democrat success in winning elections as well as in winning support from younger voters who are also concerned about these matters.

We endeavor to make proactive, positive efforts to recruit, retain and serve the highest - need students, such as students with disabilities, English language learners, students from low - income backgrounds, and students with challenging life circumstances.

As the school planned for year two, it became a target site of NEA's Priority Schools Campaign, which worked with school administrators and staff to provide resources and training, such as C.A.R.E. training (Culture, Ability, Resilience and Effort), to help raise achievement among minority and low - income students.

In most states, there is a large and growing gap between the percentage of students of color1 and the percentage of teachers of color.2 Efforts to increase teacher diversity have led to marginal increases in the percentage of teachers of color — from 12 percent to 17 percent from 1987 through 2012 — but this positive statistic obscures other troubling facts, such as the decline in the percentage of African American teachers in many large urban districts and the lower retention rates for teachers of color across the country.3

During a time when large numbers of low - income children are continuing to fall behind academically, however, an innovative approach to educating them with both academics and enrichment such as sports and arts has emerged: expanded learning time as part of school - reform efforts.

This setting of low expectations by the state, which has been criticized by reformers in the state such as former Commissioner for Higher Education Stan Jones (now the head of College Complete America), makes a mockery of the otherwise strong efforts by the state to transform education for children.

As the winner of The Broad Prize for Public Charter Schools, KIPP Schools will receive $ 250,000 to support college - readiness efforts for low - income students, such as scholarships, speaker series or campus visits.