Sentences with phrase «sustained efforts by»

Last year's global sensation Pokémon GO didn't crack the overall or App Store revenue top 10, despite sustained efforts by publisher Niantic to reignite the frenzy of 2016 with new Pokémon and other content, but did appear at No. 9 on Google Play.

Sustained efforts by leadership and the community resulted in a PoG plan that placed 21st century skills on the same playing field as academic proficiency.

The best way to reduce bullying is not with a one - time assembly or a poster campaign, but with homegrown, data - driven, sustained efforts by a caring, committed staff — a model I call the six R's, a blueprint for effective bullying prevention.

«That's what I did with the fast - food workers, that's what I did with transgender rights, that's what I did with marriage equality,» Cuomo said, though the latter of which was approved through the legislative process through a sustained effort by the governor and a host of other advocates, and not through executive authority.

Communicate to citizens and particular stakeholders, including local communities, youth, governments, civil society, and the private sector, about the value of snow leopards and their ecosystem, and sustain the effort by celebrating 23 October 23 each year as the International Snow Leopard Day with presentation of an annual International Snow Leopard Conservation Award, and 2015 as the International Year of the Snow Leopard.

But Chicago's program may be the nation's largest sustained effort by a major school district to end social promotion.

«Achieving significant sales of a new book, especially a self - published book, requires a dedicated and sustained effort by a team of experts working with the author.

This is a struggle that can be won, the window is there, but it will require sustained effort by individuals combined with nearly flawless decision making by all organizations at every level of society.

This action was the culmination of many years of sustained effort by Department of Housing and Urban Development officials and committees of the National Association in support of its traditional commitment to equal opportunity in the acquisition and use of real property in America.

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By doing so, you will improve your firm's ability to sustain its change efforts, while building the project management mechanisms needed to properly monitor and manage the overarching transformation program.

The company's sustained effort to be participate visibly in app industry events has produced other leads, including an approach by Facebook's Canadian arm in 2011 to become a preferred marketing developer, which means the social network giant refers on customers who want to build Facebook applications for their products or services.

But by heavily investing in eroding positive market positions for our competitors, we allow our healthy, wildly profitable positions at the top to sustain itself for the longest time possible — so we can instead focus our efforts on more attractive endeavors.

This reality and the conditions that pertain to it mean that you can float on the seas of authority bloat that fuels your vertical, but the efforts that it requires is simply not worth it to build any kind of sustained ranking, as too many levers must float in your favor — such as the website where your link was originally hosted maintaining it's weight before being pillaged by other SEOs capable of basic competitive research — or your competitors being bad enough to not have an SEO who has heard of competitive research — in order for it to be a worthwhile strategy.

A real and sustained effort was made to reconstruct the whole social order upon the basis of the Law of God, not only by giving it statutory force, but by «writing it on the heart», so far as this could be done by positive instruction and through the ordinances of public worship.

• The publisher's description, in case you're wondering, went: «In The Myth of Persecution, Moss... exposes that the «Age of Martyrs» is a fiction — there was no sustained three - hundred - year - long effort by the Romans to persecute Christians.

The book moves back to the judge's childhood and youth, marked by his dead mother's absence; his father's stroke, damaged speaking ability, and death; his courtship; and his professional advancement built on his father's political connections, while moving forward to encompass his wife's stroke and subsequent decline and his effort to sustain his self - sufficient mode of existence while mourning her death.

Yet young people will not normally discover this without the sustained and patient insistence by adults that they expend effort in significant work.

The discipline demanded by the effort to sustain internal relationships is at least difficult.

If the views of these theologians are correct, then the good accomplished in redemption lies in a different dimension from the goad realized by human effort, and we can not sustain the thesis that the work of redemption involves as an integral aspect a process in this world, and the actualization of love in this life.

The inexpressible sadness of our era is that as soon as the dream is revived it dies, overwhelmed by the harsh realities of a world where finally only military might settles international disputes and where even the prospect of total annihilation can not generate a sustained effort for the abolition of war.

Our goal should be to educate this desire in the proper order of love rather than allowing ourselves to be conscripted into the increasingly frantic efforts to sustain the postwar era by administering yet another round of the chemotherapy of disenchantment.

This effort is undermined by his elaborately defended decision to exclude from his discussion any sustained attention to either Catholic or Protestant church - related colleges.

Again and again we have remarked that some of the chronic evil seemingly inseparably associated with mankind has displayed several of its colossal dimensions among peoples who have called themselves Christian, but that repeatedly efforts to counter this evil, some of them at least partly successful, have been put forth by men and women inspired and sustained by Christian faith.

The sustaining theological motive for this effort is reflected by H, Richard Niebuhr in his discussion of the historic debate on the relationship of faith and culture:

Skill in craftsmanship is attained only by arduous and protracted effort sustained by a concern for ideal values and dedication to the task of realizing them in material things — that is, by a zeal for incarnating excellence.

Recruitment, development and skillsVisitors can also learn more about the PPMA's efforts to sustain and develop the industry's workforce on stand B01 with a special focus on recruitment, development and skills, led by PPMA BEST.

Sponsors are enticed by what Wallace brings as a spokesman, and RPM is hoping it can parlay that interest into increased funding, something the organization has lacked and hindered any sustained rebuilding efforts.

These movements were characterised by their efforts to sustain a non-hierarchical structure, their deliberate distancing from established political parties that seek state power, and their refusal to recognize the state as the only legitimate framework for democratic decision - making.

He said that sustained Customs anti-smuggling efforts had kept the service warehouses filled with seizures in spite of the various donations made by the service to IDPs.

The pending vote by the gaming commission comes after a sustained media campaign by the Oneida Indian Nation in an effort to deny the Lago Resort and Casino in Tyre a license.

«This report just like several others by the medium, were part of systematic and sustained efforts aimed at denigrating the Nigerian Army and tarnish its image.

All efforts by NAN to ascertain the state of the victims, who serious sustained injuries from the National Hospital proved abortive.

Syracuse Police Chief Frank Fowler said after work is done in an area, police talk with neighbors to try to get them to form neighborhood watch groups to help sustain the collected effort being made by city agencies.

He said measures taken by the police in collaboration with traditional rulers were already yielding positive result, adding that there was «the need to redouble our efforts to sustain the recorded success».

Despite their best efforts to stabilize abdominal wounds sustained on the battlefield, military first - responders have few options when it comes to stanching internal bleeding caused by, for example, gunshots or explosive fragments.

Although reformers can point to piecemeal efforts that have moved the needle at particular schools, those programs typically owe their success to a deep and sustained commitment by a single prominent scientist or campus leader.

They both represent a sustained intellectual effort by an individual or a team of individuals to produce an original piece of work.

Last year, an evaluation of a decadelong $ 250 million program funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) to improve the skills of some 70,000 science and math teachers in 31 states concluded that such efforts could make a difference — if they were done well, with high - quality materials, supported by policies, and sustained over many years.

The Human Placenta Project, launched last year by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) despite uncertainty over how much money would back in the effort, has just received a whopping $ 41.5 million in 2015 to study the vital mass of tissue that sustains a developing fetus.

What's more, the phosphocreatine system can provide energy for 15 seconds of sustained effort such as holding a static pose and that system can be recharged by mitochondrial oxidation of fat.

His sequel to an idea from an interlude in another not - always - successful effort feels like just that: all barely - there concept, sustained by passion and perseverance rather than quality content, with no follow through in the execution.

Given that the RHSU Edu - Scholar rankings, by design, favor scholars who've bodies of work and sustained influence, these junior faculty deserve particular note for effectively making the (rarely rewarded) effort to engage in the public square.

The non-cognitive skills we measured include conscientiousness, self - control, and grit — a term coined by our collaborator Angela Duckworth to capture students» tendency to sustain interest in, and effort toward, long - term goals.

By emphasizing the importance of «working strenuously toward challenges, and maintaining effort and interest over years, despite failure, adversity, and plateaus in progress,» educators can help to encourage the habits of sustained effort and focus that increase the likelihood of achieving goals (Duckworth, Peterson, Matthews, & Kelly, 2007).

They have done it by focusing on what works and by a sustained effort of working together.

Sam Davidson, California field director of the national advocacy group Trout Unlimited, says of the school's efforts to protect trout habitat in California, «There is wide acknowledgment that without involvement in these efforts by young people, we will ultimately fail or fall short of the results needed to sustain our state's remarkable fish heritage.»

«Genuine learning situations are marked by the presence of inter-related interest and effort, by undivided and sustained attention in a developing activity.»

The UDL connection involves learners having options for sustaining effort and persistence by fostering collaboration and community.

Despite the best efforts of the teachers to provide leadership for their school, along with efforts by the district to establish formal teacher - leadership positions, the combined effects of frequent principal turnover and frequent teacher turnover made it impossible for this school to sustain any momentum in its improvement efforts.

Workshops sustained by online performance portals that enable learners to identify opportunities on which to focus before they attend formal training and continue to sustain their efforts long after class