Sentences with phrase «though recent efforts»

But after three seasons of power output misery and reliability woes, it would be foolish to consider the new Toro Rosso - Honda partnership as a fresh start, because even though recent efforts have been largely fruitless, Honda brings relevant experience this time.

Not exact matches

Though my recent insomnia is partly a barometer of fear, it's a measure of effort as well.

McDonald's recent marketing campaigns have praised the freshly cracked eggs in Egg McMuffins and answered consumer questions on social media about its food, though these early efforts have yet to reverse the decline in comparable store sales.

Though the looming Brexit has put a damper on all things to do with the U.K., Wealthsimple is one of at least five Canadian fintechs making moves across the pond in recent months in response to the U.K.'s increased efforts to attract fintech investment and a collaboration between the Ontario Securities Commission and its local counterpart to facilitate fintech expansion.

This will come as another major blow for United in the transfer market, though recent reports suggest they are now focusing their efforts on AS Roma pair Kevin Strootman and Miralem Pjanic.

Though the Old Trafford boss has been impressed with the recent efforts of Brazilian full - back Rafael the Dutch manager is still keen on luring the 25 year old Everton star to the club when the transfer window reopens.

Greinke is doing his best to make everyone forget about last summer, though, with his most recent performance: an eight - inning, one - hit effort with 11 strikeouts against the Pirates.

As Maggie Haberman reports, de Blasio has had discussions in recent weeks with Google on the heels of his successful effort to get Goldman Sachs to agree not to spend on political ads in this election cycle — even though a recent US Supreme Court decision allows corporations to drop unlimited amounts of cash to try to elect of defeat candidates running for federal office.

But with no pilgrimages planned to Iowa or New Hampshire and no stump speeches for Democrats elsewhere in the country, Cuomo's recent efforts to boost his national profile are more likely about his immediate re-election plans — though a future run for the White House can't be ruled out.

That effort stalled out, though, due to time constraints, said Cornelius Murphy, one of Consensus» co-founders, in a recent interview.

ARC also had an unimpressive 2011, though it did manage to secure positive reviews for two films, including The Way 64, Emilio Estevez's recent directorial effort (starring dad Martin Sheen).

Though rife with many of the same problems that have plagued Atom Egoyan's recent efforts, Adoration ultimately overcomes an almost disastrously plodding opening half hour to become a slight yet somewhat engaging piece of work.

The most recent effort was 1998's Bille August film, which starred Liam Neeson, The King's Speech's Geoffrey Rush and Uma Thurman and was well received by critics, though it only made $ 14m at the box office.

Not having read Roald Dahl's 1982 children's book, I can't say how faithful this adaptation is (though colleagues have suggested that darker aspects have been watered down), but it seems to follow the same basic trajectory: Cute British orphan Sophie (newcomer Ruby Barnhill) gets abducted by the title character (played, or performance - captured, by recent Oscar winner Mark Rylance), who turns out to be the smallest and kindest inhabitant of Giant Country; Sophie winds up enlisting the Queen (Penelope Wilton) in an effort to stop the other, meaner giants (led by a performance - captured Jemaine Clement) from eating England's children.

In recent years, though, the list of Pixar shorts has grown with entries from the Cars Toons: Mater's Tall Tales and Toy Story Toons series complementing their more award - minded original theatrical efforts and the now - standard home video shorts.

The success of this film over the other more recent depressing efforts of the big animation studios could be that it's based on a syndicated comic strip, though I doubt the original had quite the family - oriented focus about it.

Studio Sony, which has a long - term deal with the actor - producer, could be particularly affected, though Hollywood may take solace in the fact that recent efforts Jack and Jill, Blended and That's My Boy have proven less popular with fans than Sandler's previous movies.

though some of this seems to be based on recent money - fueled efforts by corporate reformers to place their allies in school board seats.

Digg is claiming it was already into developing a service that could be seen as something similar to Google Reader, though the search giant's recent decision to withdraw its Reader service has only provided more impetus to Digg's efforts.

Though prevailing models of dyslexia ascribe reading difficulties to poor phonological processing, in recent years dyslexia has been increasingly associated with deficits in visual attention (e.g., [15]--[24]-RRB- and poor oculomotor control [25]--[28], prompting a suggestion [5] that e-readers could be configured to reduce demands on visual attention and oculomotor control and thus make reading less of an effort for those impaired.

The story line for a number of years now has been the «search for yield» and how the recent low - interest - rate environment has been forcing investors down in credit or out the maturity curve in an effort to maintain income though adding risk.

Even though South Korea put the most effort into conservation of the species among the Asian nations, there are no confirmed sightings along the Korean Peninsula or even in the Sea of Japan in recent years.

Newer characters have been introduced in recent games, though little effort has been made with them, with most, if not all, being rather pointless additions.

Milestone's most recent effort Monster Energy Supercross had a decent online component though, so I'm expecting the same here.

Even Bioware's MMO, Star Wars: The Old Republic, has struggled to maintain a consistent cast throughout its lifespan, though the more recent expansions seem to be making a greater effort in that regard.

Though it's worth pointing out that in the two years since this controversy, Ubisoft has made clear efforts to improve the representation of women in the core Assassin's Creed games, with the most recent entry, Assassin's Creed Syndicate, giving the option to play as Evie Frye through much of the campaign.

Though risk has been a notion associated with Colombia due to the country's prolonged and complicated internal conflicts, recent governments have made efforts to contest and mediate this image, resorting to affective publicity.

Though as with another recent study targeting ExxonMobil, the methodology has raised significant questions and the researchers who produced the report are closely connected to efforts that have had a stated purpose of doing damage to the fossil fuel industry.

And that is all the more reason to appreciate the integrity Doug Cotton's recent efforts... even though the verdict of Nature (most folks would say) is against the technical correctness of those efforts.

Though it's difficult to exactly trace the influence of lobbying money, by its very nature, both Philpott and OpenSecrets squarely place the blame for recent failures of efforts to label GMO ingredients in Congress, as well as the FDA thoroughly dragging its feet on GMO labeling, questioning the validity of petitions demanding labeling, on the massive influence of Monsanto.

Though efforts to facilitate speedy redressal of disputes are underway — the most recent being establishment of special commercial courts to settle high - stake commercial disputes as well as constitution of the National Company Law Tribunal and its appellate body — I encourage parties to have in place a strong mechanism for international commercial arbitration, at the outset.

It's currently unclear whether Samsung is planning to cut the prices of its device in an effort to respond to recent market trends, though the company will likely do so by fall following the launch of the highly anticipated Galaxy Note 8.

Therefore, even though all recent school intervention efforts aimed at strengthening life skills to optimize development and along the way prevent risk behaviors deserve our most sincere recognition and applause (Springer et al., 2004), the intervention that we defend here should go further.