Sentences with phrase «unsuccessful effort»

But many researchers had argued that those remains were only evidence of unsuccessful efforts at wider migration.

Asking for such specific feedback can help all stakeholders review how successful or unsuccessful the efforts on recruiting, on hiring, and on supporting new principals have been.

Several unsuccessful efforts have been made recently to increase this limit.

Many interview participants described unsuccessful efforts to connect to helping professionals.

When unsuccessful efforts to produce speech are rewarded, the child feels inspired to make a greater effort, which may lead to actual speech.

Leonard had long supported unsuccessful efforts to get Congress to adopt some form of carbon cap and trade initiative, where the federal government would enforce a slowly lowering cap on emissions, with some companies selling reductions beyond their cap levels to others that were likely to violate the cap.

Older traces of modern humans previously discovered outside Africa, such as the roughly 100,000 - year - old remains from the Skhul and Qafzeh caves in Israel, were discarded by scientists as evidence of unsuccessful efforts at wider migration.

Aussie Farmers was losing $ 500,000 a week when directors finally pulled the plug in March after major shareholders including Everyday Gourmet, Hendale AM (Singapore) and Sujajo Investments withdrew their support following unsuccessful efforts to restructure, recapitalise or sell the business.

«I think of Bloomberg's millions the same way I do the millions Steyer flushed down the toilet last year — flotsam,» Laura Sheehan of the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity said, referring to the millions San Francisco billionaire and environmentalist crusader Tom Steyer spent last year in mostly unsuccessful efforts to elect candidates committed to government programs to combat alleged man - made climate change.

First, the administration should heed the lessons of previously unsuccessful efforts to halt North Korea's nuclear program.

Until the FBI raided his office, home and hotel room in April, President Donald Trump's longtime personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, was known mostly for his star turns on cable television as his client's most cringe - worthy defender, along with his spectacularly unsuccessful effort to silence a porn...

Since the collapse of the country's national airline, Ghana International Airlines, in 2010, government has made albeit unsuccessful efforts at reviving the sector with a national carrier.

This was Doheny's third unsuccessful effort to capture the 21st district seat.

De Blasio was soundly defeated by Success CEO Eva Moskowitz in a very public fight over school space, despite largely unsuccessful efforts to de-escalate the battle with a conciliatory speech at Riverside Church and other overtures.

Upstate mayors have launched unsuccessful efforts in the past to seize control of their cities» public schools.

Erie County contracts with Crisis Services to offer a 24 - hour Addiction Hotline, 831-7007, meant to provide rapid access to treatment services, but Estrada said many don't use it or simply recall their own unsuccessful efforts in the past to get themselves treatment.

Yesterday, the Los Angeles Daily News Editorial Board decried the CTA's so - far unsuccessful efforts to kill the Teacher and Student Success Act (AB 1220), a bill authored by Assemblymember Shirley Weber (D - San Diego) at the urging of teacher organizations Teach Plus and Educators for Excellence.

The central problem with cubes is that they are an utterly unsuccessful effort to split the difference between providing someone with 4 walls and a door that closes on the one hand, and on the other hand, a desk in a room full of desks.

There had been a prior unsuccessful effort to increase the jurisdiction in 2005 as SB 142 that started as an increase to $ 15,000, was amended down to $ 10,000, and finally eliminated from bill entirely.

The former Chancellor led the ultimately unsuccessful effort to get a 40 % turnout threshold for the AV referendum.

My local mega-bookstore is full of videos and other nonbooks, in a mostly unsuccessful effort to lure teens.

And let's not forget the trillions of dollars in debt that America's politicians have saddled taxpayers with in an unsuccessful effort to alleviate these economic ills.

-- The lessons learned by alcoholics from their own failures and the unsuccessful efforts of other human beings and entities.

(Voldemort killed both of Harry's parents in his unsuccessful effort to kill Harry himself.)

I have a container of grated carrots in my fridge from an unsuccessful effort at carrot cake.

Pride remains the predominant keyword associated with Bilbao despite the agonising lengths the club went to in their unsuccessful efforts for victory.

If anyone doubts the validity of what Harrison says they only need to remember the unsuccessful efforts that England manager Fabio Capello went to last month when he did everything in his power to convince the 35 year old Scholes to come out of international retirement and help England's World Cup cause in South Africa.

The proposal acknowledges the European Food Safety Agency's (EFSA) approval of the use of BPA in 2008, but dismisses this finding and indicates its unsuccessful efforts to have EFSA apply more severe rules governing BPA.»

At 68, Tolbert is making his third run for public office following his unsuccessful effort against Brown in 2013 and another failed bid for the Buffalo Board of Education in 2014.

In the same year, he published Dirty Politics Dirty Times, a biographical account of his successful battles against The Times newspaper and New Labour and their ultimately unsuccessful efforts to destabilise the Conservative Party.

The group on Tuesday released its legislative score cards for the 213 members of the Legislature on Tuesday, using three measurements: Their vote on the 2013 SAFE Act, the unsuccessful effort in 2015 to repeal it in the Senate and whether the lawmaker is a sponsor of a safe - storage bill, known as Nicholas's Law.

Alcantara's deep ties to labor earned her the support of liberal unions like the Hotel and Motel Trades Council and NYSNA, some of whom had invested heavily in 2014 in an unsuccessful effort to help mainline Democrats reclaim control of the Senate.

The station has made strenuous but unsuccessful efforts the verify Mr. Kennedy Agyepong's claims.

Sugarman's memo paints a picture of a coordinated effort by the mayor and his allies — dubbed interchangeably as «Team de Blasio» and «Team Coordinated» — to deliberately circumvent legal campaign donation limits in three upstate races in what turned out to be an unsuccessful effort to help Democrats win control of the state Senate in 2014.

The state teachers» union is heading into session in a weakened state after spending millions in an unsuccessful effort to elect Democrats to the Senate, alienating Republicans in the process.

Jaeger said she was involved in the ultimately unsuccessful effort to recruit Trump to run in 2012 because she was dissatisfied with the field of candidates.

Authorities are also examining whether de Blasio's unsuccessful effort to win control of the state Senate violated campaign finance and election laws.

Rechnitz also gave the maximum $ 102,300 to de Blasio's unsuccessful effort to unseat Republican lawmakers in Albany during the 2014 elections to gain control of the Legislature for the Democrats.

Combined, the three groups spent $ 4.5 million in the unsuccessful effort to get McDaniel elected.

Meanwhile, the media company has since published that «The station has made strenuous, but unsuccessful efforts to verify from Mr Kennedy Agyepong's claims that large sums of questionable amounts of money had been found in the former BOST CEO's personal account».

In seeking to make de Blasio suffer, Cuomo has a partner in Flanagan, whose members are still smarting from the mayor's unsuccessful effort to help the Senate Democrats take back the majority in 2014.

De Blasio — who was criticized over how he steered donations to Democrats during their unsuccessful efforts to take control of the Senate in 2014 — said helping Democrats in the Senate «should be in the forefront of all we do here.»

The leaked State Board of Elections report said de Blasio and his political aides broke state campaign - finance laws in 2014 when coordinating fundraising efforts for Democratic State Senate candidates, as part of an unsuccessful effort to reclaim control of the chamber.

The mayor has spent weeks avoiding answering questions about his past and upcoming discussions with Vance and Bharara regarding their respective probes into his unsuccessful efforts to help Democrats take the State Senate in 2014, and his now - defunct political nonprofit, the Campaign for One New York.

Pataki had strongly campaigned for Bush including an unsuccessful effort to keep John McCain off the New York primary ballot (which Bush ultimately won).

The New York City bill, expected to be introduced within the next month, also mirrors a so - far - unsuccessful effort in Albany to require more reporting from Airbnb.

Rechnitz also donated the maximum $ 102,300 to the mayor's unsuccessful efforts to unseat upstate Republican legislators to retake the Senate for Democrats.