Sentences with phrase «unsuccessful efforts at»

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.

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

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

Not exact matches

Apparently, the man had made multiple efforts — «guard shopping» as one of the security personnel put it — to get a look at the trading inside the confines of 11 Wall St.and was unsuccessful each time.

Warren Buffett donated about $ 2.2 billion of stock in his annual gift to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, betting that risk takers at the group will make breakthroughs in global health and U.S. education even as they acknowledge that some efforts will be unsuccessful.

The company claims this is an attack by the United Auto Workers over UAW's unsuccessful unionization efforts at the plant.

Many pregnant women try to quit or at least cut back on cigarettes, but without any support or help, these efforts remain unsuccessful.

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.

Effort to speak with the state coordinator of the NCBSG, Mr. Ignatius Edet was unsuccessful as he dropped his call after the issue was mentioned to him, while the state chairman of the All Progressives Congress, Dr. Amadu Atai, could not be reached as at the time of filing the report.

Frantic efforts made by this reporter to contact some of the national officers to either confirm or deny this story was unsuccessful, but Chronicle sources at the party office said the National Executive Committee would meet any moment from now to consider the recall of some of the suspended officers who have shown genuine remorse over the matters that led to their suspension.

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.

Kaku's story is an outgrowth of a session at Aspen called «Einstein's Unfinished Symphony,» which was supposed to be a discussion about the great physicist's long and unsuccessful effort to come up with a unified field theory — what has become known as a theory of everything.

What You Need To Know: His first feature length narrative since 2008's commercially unsuccessful «Miracle at St. Anna,» Spike Lee's latest exploration of Brooklyn was first surprise - announced over Twitter and was somehow dubbed a sequel to his breakthrough effort «Do the Right Thing.»

I want to keep working at solving the problem that, notwithstanding the great efforts we've made in Massachusetts over a couple of decades in setting high goals, measuring progress, holding people accountable, and investing and building the capacity of the system to deliver, we've still been — however successful we've been comparatively — unsuccessful at: closing persistent achievement gaps.

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.

After several unsuccessful turnaround efforts and years of chronic low performance at Cameron Middle School, Metropolitan Nashville Public Schools (MNPS) decided to try something different to dramatically improve student outcomes: gradually convert operation of the school from the district to a charter management organization.

Though Blaine's effort was unsuccessful at the federal level, most states adopted some version of his proposed amendment, often in addition to an earlier constitutional provision prohibiting the «compelled support» of religion.

One week after MediciNova's prior communication, on January 29, 2009, strategic advisors at RBC once again contacted MediciNova's Chairman reiterating that efforts to reach MediciNova's CEO and CFO were unsuccessful and urging him to review and return the confidentiality agreement so that diligence could commence as soon as possible.

Avigen's strategic advisors at RBC sent an email to MediciNova's Chairman on January 22, 2009, stating that efforts to reach MediciNova's CEO and CFO were unsuccessful and urging him to review and return the confidentiality agreement so that due diligence could commence as soon as possible.

However, in an effort to boost the yield of the MIP and thereby garner more management fees for itself, Fidelity, before the period at issue in the lawsuit, engaged in an imprudent and ultimately unsuccessful investment strategy by, among other things, causing large amounts of the MIP's assets to be held in various forms of securitized debt.

He probably was unsure at first so the effort to catch him at first was unsuccessful.

«At present, CSIRO and other measurements show that atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations are rising progressively faster each year — so the judgement of the atmosphere is that global efforts to reduce emissions have so far been spectacularly unsuccessful.

He spent about $ 50 million in an unsuccessful effort to pass Proposition 87, the November ballot initiative aimed at taxing oil companies to fund alternative energy initiatives.

Although traditional conservation efforts have been aimed at protecting apes from bushmeat poaching and habitat loss, efforts to combat organized wildlife trafficking has been largely unsuccessful.

And as described in this post at Legal Pad, unconventional measures, specifically a YouTube video, are what attorney William Teesdale took in a desperate, but as yet unsuccessful, effort to help his client, a Guantanomo detainee, gain his release.

The trial judge considered Ms. Brake's mitigation efforts, which consisted of increased hours at an existing part - time cashier job at Sobeys which she held while employed by PJ — M2R Restaurant Inc.; a job at Tim Hortons; attempts at starting a babysitting and cleaning service business which were ultimately abandoned; unsuccessful applications for several store manager and supervisor positions in the retail sector; and work in a cashier position at Home Depot which she still held at the time of trial.

But all my efforts at getting a health insurance policy have been unsuccessful.»

Any effort at a solution that requires the litigation of «parental alienation» in the legal system will be unsuccessful.