Sentences with phrase «ultimately successful efforts»

His arduous but ultimately successful efforts to expose the truth about Flint's polluted water have cost Edwards a great deal of money and a number of friends, as well as the pain of being «harassed, lampooned, and threatened,» The Washington Post reports.

Before the UC postdocs voted to unionize, the UC system engaged in a difficult and ultimately successful effort to provide decent, uniform benefits to all UC postdocs.

Remember, this year's Los Angeles School Board race was the most expensive school board election in U.S. history, as the powerful charter lobby ran candidates in an ultimately successful effort to gain a pro-charter majority on the board in this city that is desperately fighting against charter expansion and the subsequent financial strangling of Los Angeles Unified School District.

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The effort was ultimately successful as ride - hailing apps were allowed outside of New York City as part of an agreement between Gov. Andrew Cuomo and the state Legislature.

But if they visit the shelter first or watch videos about life on the street and are then asked to brainstorm for ways to help these people, they will be a lot more active (and ultimately, more successful) in their efforts.

We at Fordham have lived through a long, slow, painful — but ultimately successful — effort to repair Ohio's charter law, which was full of loopholes and lax provisions bearing on schools and authorizers alike.

Three forces will be central in determining whether or not the common core is ultimately successful in accelerating and not hindering efforts to reform education: oversight, infrastructure, and politics.

Beginning with Brown v. Board of Education in 1954, nationwide efforts to dismantle segregation and integrate schools through anti-discrimination lawsuits, although modestly successful on occasion, have ultimately foundered, producing neither dramatic racial integration nor significant improvements in academic outcomes for black students.

Doing so means involving families in decision making and being willing to embrace a participatory, democratic model of schooling in which stakeholders share power — a model that can be slower and messier than schools directing family partnership efforts, but ultimately more successful.

There is no question that all of the key players want to attract developers and ultimately hope they are successful, but Yahoo finally made something abundantly clear: developers want to be rewarded for their efforts and see a return on their investments (time included).

Yet, while the growing availability of contract manufacturers and smaller order minimums have made private labeling a legitimate possibility for more retailers than ever, building a successful program requires a lot of time and effort that many small pet store owner / operators will ultimately find prohibitive.

However, whether such efforts would ultimately be successful is questionable, given the lack of support for such a system expressed by Green Party Leader Andrew Weaver.

In June, as the GOP Congress was slogging through an ultimately failed effort to repeal the 2010 Affordable Care Act — commonly known as Obamacare — Ryan predicted a more successful result for a tax bill, but one that would include elements of drama.