Sentences with phrase «too small an effort»

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The effort is intended to educate drone owners and prevent smaller aircraft from flying too close to planes and jets — a move that has angered some drone hobbyists.

Congress, too, talks a good small - business game, but the legislative history is replete with efforts to enlarge the definition of small — currently 37 separate standards apply to nearly 1,200 different industries — to include ever more constituents.

But the effort has been marked by stumbles, including menu misfires and complaints that food was too pricey or the portions were too small.

A Government Accountability Office report says the effort to help small businesses pay for health care is too complex to be useful.

True, this has led to an explosion in new companies far beyond the levels seen previously, which is entirely expected — lower barriers to entry to any market means more total entries — but this has actually made it even more difficult for venture capitalists to invest in seed rounds: most aren't capable of writing massive numbers of seed checks; the amounts are just too small to justify the effort.

The dangers with so many of these opportunities is that small businesses in particular lose focus and spread their advertising efforts too broadly and end up doing a bit of everything poorly rather than concentrating on doing 2 or 3 things really well.

Tracking down small business grants might take time and effort, but it could be worth it, particularly if you don't want to take on too much debt.

If most content marketers believe their efforts are not effective, it could be because their budgets for promotion and distribution of owned media are too small.

And I have eleventy - billion of these moments a day too, seemingly small, times when my breath catches and I have no camera or pen nearby so I'm going to have to rely on my something in my soul remembering it forever because it's a step up a mountain, a roll of the rock of my own stubbornness, and I don't have any gods at the top, pushing me back to the bottom, laughing at my futile efforts.

That the disability community is too small to warrant the cost and effort that it would take to create such a book.

They seem like a lot of effort for such a small quantity of treats too.

Made these for my husband as he loves the dish and his only complaint is that the veggies were chopped too small and this was due to my effort and NOT your recipe.

But the scope of CWT's biocrude effort — turning anything into oil — may be too much for one small start - up, he says.

I'm a big believer that there's no effort too small, so we wanted to urge our customers to make a difference with what they wear.

Despite my best efforts to style this top it just felt too big so I decided to return it and try a small.

The collaborations between you and Sheela have been great and I'm only too glad to add some small bit of publicity to your efforts.

When it comes to dating services, there are really only a small portion that are worth your time, with the rest either being too much effort for a small amount of success or no success at all.

From there, no role was too small for the respected talent, ranging from the small screen again in Lovejoy and the cult Sharpe series to big screen efforts as diverse as David Fincher's Alien 3 and Aussie comedy Strange Bedfellows.

Richard Attenborough: an escaped lunatic in A Bridge Too Far (1977) John Carpenter: his longest cameo appearance was as Bennett in The Fog (1980) Terry Gilliam: directed himself in bit roles in Jabberwocky (1977), Brazil (1985), and The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1988); he also directed himself as a member of the Monty Python troupe in Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975), and The Meaning of Life (1983) Ron Howard: small cameo roles in Night Shift (1982), How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000), and A Beautiful Mind (2001) Lawrence Kasdan: Devo's (River Phoenix) lawyer in I Love You To Death (1990) Elia Kazan: Mortuary Assistant in Panic in the Streets (1950) Stephen King: in his lone directorial effort Maximum Overdrive (1986) Spike Lee: cameos (and some larger roles) in many of his own films, including: She's Got ta Have It (1986), School Daze (1988), Do the Right Thing (1989), Mo» Better Blues (1990), Jungle Fever (1991), Malcolm X (1992), Crooklyn (1994), Clockers (1995), Girl 6 (1996), Summer of Sam (1999), and 3 A.M. (2001) Terrence Malick: an unexpected visitor at door, with blueprints, in Badlands (1973)- credited as «Caller at Rich Man's House» Robert Redford: the Narrator in A River Runs Through It (1992) Rob Reiner: a helicopter pilot in Misery (1990) M. Night Shyamalan: Dr. Hill at the hospital in The Sixth Sense (1999), a Stadium drug dealer in Unbreakable (2000), deadly driver Ray Reddy in Signs (2002), and Guard at Desk in The Village (2004) Steven Soderbergh: small cameo roles in Schizopolis (1996), Ocean's Eleven (2001) Oliver Stone: an officer with a phone in his hand in a US base's bunker when it is blown up by a suicide bomber in Platoon (1986)

Those accomplishments are more meaningful when they are authentic, and feeling competent is itself a meaningful reward — better than a collection of stickers or small trinkets or much too scarcely distributed recognitions like «student of the month,» which can lead the majority of students to become resigned to failure despite effort.

During his first five years as chief of Boston schools, Payzant focused the district on literacy instruction, creating a new team of literacy coaches who worked with classroom teachers in a small set of schools, using money freed up from an «audit» of professional development endeavors that revealed too many disparate efforts around the district.

No reform effort is too small for the teachers union to squash.

He also said California's efforts to address its teacher shortage «so far have been way too small.»

The effort is part of the «Too Small to Fail» campaign started last year by the Bill, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton Foundation and Next Generation, a San Francisco - based nonprofit.

One more comment about the Gates Foundation jumping away from the small schools» concept too quickly: This is the main reason that teachers don't make changes easily in their delivery efforts.

The panel is breaking its renewal effort into what it sees as small, targeted pieces, to avoid a repeat of what Congress faced with the health care overhaul law, which was criticized for being too long.

The exhaust note is both a bit loud and a bit boomy (Roush actually does the whang - crackle - thump small - block Ford noise a little better, and without the highway boom), and the shift linkage is a bit too notchy for my tastes (again, Roush's cue - ball, Hurst - copy lever appeals to me more here, with its lighter effort and equally short throws).

In medium to quick corners the chassis shows good balance, but there's still too much body roll — despite the best efforts of the active dampers and anti-roll bars — and it takes a small leap of faith to push right up to the M760 Li's limits on the road.

Capable of exceptional efforts such as the current Leon Cupra 290 and the supercar - baiting Sub8, it's still all too easy to overlook this smaller Cupra model.

The schooner veered adroitly in efforts to avoid the small craft, but too late.

I haven't read a comic book on an ereader, except once and I gave up on it... The Kindle Readers are very difficult to work with... 6 ″ is way too small a screen, plus the delay to zoom in to read the dang thing just takes too much effort.

One possible reason is that the effort is too great, as BlackBerry handsets usually have smaller screens than iOS and Android devices due to the inclusion of a QWERTY keyboard.

What this means is that a strong dog that had so much drive that it was too much for a small person to handle is now easily controllable without a lot of effort.

No effort is too small and no contribution is too little.

Short - legged and a bit clumsy, she was just too small to climb out, despite the determined efforts of her distraught mother.

No surf report in from Keramas which makes me think it was just too small for the effort over on the East side of the island.

Ubisoft had a small stand too and made a lot of effort to stand out with Far Cry 5, the large bear was a picture favorite for many people and I always saw multiple people playing.

Following Miyamoto's dismissal of their first efforts as «boring» and «too similar to the console games,» the team retooled it with stickers and smaller, more puzzley areas in mind.

I hoped that with that experience you could convert a smaller program without too much more effort.

I too would like to thank Steve (and his small band of early collaborators) for putting in such an extended effort and sticking to their guns for so many years.

CCS research efforts, which has even fewer patents issued in the last decade, was too small to be recognised.