Sentences with phrase «unsuccessful efforts of other»

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

Not exact matches

On the other hand, efforts to make conceptual sense of the world based on this model were unsuccessful.

A state Elections Board enforcement counsel accused de Blasio and his aides of funneling large contributions from unions and other donors through county Democratic committees to three State Senate candidates upstate in 2014 in an unsuccessful party effort to retake control from Republicans.

Efforts to enact early voting and other reforms were unsuccessful when the state Senate, led by a coalition of Republicans and breakaway Democrats, did not act on the bills.

Assemblyman Barclay said efforts by him and other state lawmakers to have the law repealed have been unsuccessful and offered little hope that can happen, noting the current political makeup of the state Legislature.

However, because those efforts were unsuccessful, and your legislature is not scheduled to reconvene until January 2015, I can not extend Washington's authority to implement ESEA flexibility, and Washington and its LEAs must resume implementing the requirements of Title I of the ESEA, as amended by the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (NCLB), as well as all other ESEA requirements that were waived under ESEA flexibility, for the 2014 — 2015 school year.

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.

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.

«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.

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.