Sentences with phrase «thwart our efforts at»

«We see this as a subtle attempt by this intolerant Akufo - Addo administration to frustrate and thwart our efforts at organising this demonstration.

All told, even with extensive experience, the best possible preparation and ideal conditions, America's Mountain is still capable of thwarting any effort at conquering its summit.

When animal lovers learn about the cruelty and killing that are rampant in U.S. shelters, and that national animal protection organizations such as the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS), the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) and People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) defend these shelters and thwart efforts at reform, the first and the most logical question they ask is: Why?

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The fund, which is now the iShares S&P / TSX 60 Index ETF (XIU), preceded the first U.S. - listed ETF by three years, according to an article in The Globe and Mail that also noted how earlier efforts at creating an exchange traded fund south of the border were thwarted by a successful lawsuit from the Chicago Mercantile Exchange.

Rather, we learn about otherness of purpose by the brute resistance of the other to our purposes — whether this is a child who has been told no, or a plant that is thwarted in its effort to grow towards the light by a pair of pruning shears, otherness of purpose is, at its ground, metaphysically other at the outset, and epistemologically other only emergently.

Of course at the time Gov. Andrew Cuomo denied any connection to the efforts of Sen. Jeff Klein to form the IDC to thwart Democrats from getting the Majority in the Senate!

Our sources at the radio station indicate that this is a clear witch - hunting move by the ruling New Patriotic Party to thwart efforts of the main opposition National Democratic Congress to expose their corrupt acts and faults since the management and staff of Muntie FM are believed to be sympathetic towards the NDC.

Although none of these two guys has personally met me in person or collaborated with me on anything, they have been using my name in their diabolical agenda of thwarting the efforts of Nana Akufo - Addo to unseat the most incompetent leader of our time at the presidency.

Trump railed against efforts by some frustrated Republicans planning a last - ditch effort to try to thwart him from becoming the party's nominee, threatening at one point to stop fundraising if Republicans don't rally around him.

At the same time, gambling opponents pointed to the wording of the casino amendment that highlighted the potential benefits of gambling, including an increase in economic development and school aid as a sign the administration was trying to sway voters with non-neutral language (an effort to halt the amendment as it appears on the ballot was thwarted by a state judge this month).

Suffolk County District Attorney Thomas Spota, at his Hauppauge office on Tuesday, Sept. 3, 2013, repeatedly «thwarted» efforts to investigate the questionable actions of Edward Walsh, the Suffolk County Conservative Party leader and recently retired lieutenant in the Suffolk sheriff's office, federal prosecutors said in a filing on Tuesday, March 8, 2016.

Some victim's advocates viewed Independent Reconciliation and Compensation Programs such as the one in Buffalo as further efforts by bishops to thwart the Child Victims Act, the latest version of legislation aimed at expanding the statute of limitations and establishing a look - back window for child sex abuse cases.

But last week, at a meeting of the European Astronomical Society here, astronomers lamented that the system has so far thwarted discovery efforts — and announced new schemes to probe it.

Academics have been frequent targets of killings and abductions in Iraq the past year — part of a campaign that appears aimed at thwarting reconstruction efforts and silencing intellectuals; some estimates put the death toll in the hundreds.

Brighton is now the home of two universities, the University of Brighton (formerly Brighton Polytechnic) and the University of Sussex at Brighton, which only added the «at Brighton» suffix relatively recently (some say to thwart the poly's efforts to «usurp» the city's name).

A quick review of blog posts this past June and my favorite June looks, and I'm happy to see that despite the rain's efforts to thwart my spirit and absolute madness at work, I still managed to slip in some lovely vintage.

Critic Consensus: Raw, brutal, and bitter, Cartel Land offers a ground - level look at vigilante efforts to thwart organized crime at the Mexican - American border.

Jack's killer - disease revelation admittedly does inject the proceedings with some much - needed energy, although even this aspect of the film ultimately falls flat due to Bell's overtly sinister turn (ie one's efforts at buying into the character's claims are consistently thwarted by his exceedingly evil demeanor).

«Zero Charisma» is a movie about emotionally inert people who labor mightily to change their lives in small ways, and whose efforts at self - improvement are thwarted by emotional feedback loops that cause them to make the same mistakes over and over.

Aimed squarely at those who use the social media platform to bully, threaten and harass others, Twitter's new tool for thwarting these efforts is a new button for reporting abuse.

And it could thwart early education initiatives aimed at getting all children ready for kindergarten and broader efforts to ensure every child masters reading by the end of third grade.

Whatever the inadequacies of the engagement efforts, shouldn't we focus our criticism first and foremost on those elected officials, union leaders, and activists who were pursuing a strategy of deception and vitriol — who woke up every day seeking to thwart positive change for kids, seeking to prevent the expansion of schools that were getting outsized success for children, seeking to undermine policies designed to increase equitable access to the district's better schools, seeking to gum up efforts to empower parents with choice, and seeking to thwart all efforts aimed at fostering an honest conversation about which educators were truly superlative and which were badly underserving children?

If you would like to contact me, my email address is Michael at fkbooksandtips dot com (I type it out that way in a small effort to thwart the spammers).

If you would like to write to me, my email address is michael at fkbooksandtips dot com (I type it out that way in a small effort to thwart the spammers).

The fund, which is now the iShares S&P / TSX 60 Index ETF (XIU), preceded the first U.S. - listed ETF by three years, according to an article in The Globe and Mail that also noted how earlier efforts at creating an exchange traded fund south of the border were thwarted by a successful lawsuit from the Chicago Mercantile Exchange.

Her efforts to become a schoolteacher were thwarted by anti-Japanese sentiment and she ended up at the pioneering Black Mountain College, in North Carolina, where her teachers included the painter Josef Albers, dancer Merce Cunningham, and architect / inventor Buckminster Fuller.

Even so, as Yve - Alain Bois remarked, Barré will at the same time make every effort to ensure that each individual painting also thwarts the viewer's expectations about its most obvious connection to the whole.

That effort was thwarted, Dr. Schmidt said, and scientists immediately notified colleagues at the University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit.

[296] Further, by refusing to participate in the trial process and by continuing to assert the truth of her allegations, Ms. Halstead has attempted to thwart the plaintiffs» efforts at seeking vindication and repairing the damage to their reputations.

Originally appearing on CNBC: We have to change the paradigm of the way we look at the threat, says Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance discussing the need to work with other countries in an effort to thwart cyberattacks.

Unfortunately, when you're doing something big and out of the ordinary like changing your career, sometimes it seems there are naysayers at every turn, thwarting your efforts.