Sentences with phrase «using as an attempt»

«Bcash» considered a derogatory term by a great majority of the BCH community, and many believe the term is used as an attempt to confuse people.

Fallon Daniels, assistant principal at Danbury High School in Danbury, CT: «Suspensions and other punitive punishments are used as an attempt to find a one - size - fits - all solution to a myriad of issues.

An uninspired trait that plagues certain video games is the gimmicky skill tree, typically used as an attempt to keep the player invested.

We used it as an attempt to work without deadlines, to let words and ideas come without rush, to slow down time.

5G FWA solutions are likely to be largely targeted at enterprises as part of Verizon's business - to - business packages and while they aren't expected to immediately yield significant profits, the telecom giant may be using them as an attempt to further test some of its generally applicable connectivity technologies while simultaneously starting to generate some returns on its massive networking investments several quarters earlier than its shareholders were expecting to see them, according to some industry watchers.

Cycles of non-constructive arguing and a lack of positive affect are major predictors of stonewalling, particularly predicative of stonewalling being used as an attempt to self - soothe or de-escalate, but backfiring and resulting in relationship deterioration.

Sometimes a person might be curious about how a substance will make them feel, or they might be using as an attempt to free themselves from emotional or physical pain.

Negative events such as divorce, family conflict, witnessing violence, and peer victimization all drive teenagers to use drugs beyond experimental use as an attempt to temporarily forget their distressful feelings.

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THE Bank of Queensland will use Western Australia as a testing ground for a return to the use of mortgage brokers and a new branch model in an attempt to firm up its bottom line.

Target used groceries as a traffic driver in the U.S. and attempted to replicate that strategy here, failing to fully realize how competitive the category is in Canada.

VR is still in its early stages, but as we see it advance, we'll see more businesses jump aboard Considering VR can also provide real - time data collection and an estimated 43 million people were actively using the technology in some way as of June 2016, there's no reason not to attempt to embrace it.

And the giant that makes the platform he's building on, Apple, for example, is running large - scale medical studies using its software, and is said to be looking to handle clinical data as the first step to a real attempt to break into the medical market.

... The manufacturers behind the popular Marlboro brand have used Freedom of Information laws to [attempt to] gain access [to] about 6000 confidential interviews undertaken with teenagers as young as 13, which discuss their views on smoking and tobacco....

A business using head - mounted wearables to identify customers and access their preferences could be regarded as invading privacy rather than attempting to customize or speed up interactions.

Musk wants to slow the upper stage down during reentry and target a landing aboard a «catcher ship» like the boat, known as Mr. Steven, that SpaceX is using to attempt fairing recoveries in the Pacific.

Famed bond fund manager Bill Gross attacked the use of negative rates as an attempt to mask the symptoms of an unhealthy global economy, while Ray Dalio, the head of the world's largest hedge fund Bridgewater Associates, has recently argued that negative rates will be ineffective at boosting growth.

Roosevelt was used in 2013 as the test platform for the X-47B, Boeing's attempt to make a UAV for carrier - based operations.

The rise of «quants,» traders who use mathematical algorithms to predict market moves irrespective of fundamentals, attempts to model the markets as a complicated system.

This is deadly and although technologies such as Apple CarPlay and Android Auto attempt to address the threat of smartphone use while driving, they're far from perfect themselves.

It is explained as an attempt to increase transparency within fund management, as clients will directly see how their money is being used.

Fans have more than adopted the sentiment; earlier this season Seattle used undercover cops dressed as 49ers fans to patrol CenturyLink stadium in an attempt to root out overly aggressive Seahawk fans.

Now this m Now y sound damning, but as anyone who uses the internet knows, you can attempt to avoid ads, but you are going to see some ads eventually.

Instead of just taking «no» as an answer, they will attempt a different approach by using their creativity and imagination.

As positive as FXR's second attempt at outsourcing distribution was in Scandinavia, Reimer was leery of using the same model when he expanded into less - secure RussiAs positive as FXR's second attempt at outsourcing distribution was in Scandinavia, Reimer was leery of using the same model when he expanded into less - secure Russias FXR's second attempt at outsourcing distribution was in Scandinavia, Reimer was leery of using the same model when he expanded into less - secure Russia.

To Foreigner's «Cold As Ice,» the commercial features a man working in a meat freezer, using a hair dryer and attempting to defrost the pounds and pounds of patties located throughout the fridge.

Business managers who attempt to use these behaviors in the world of work will eventually fail in leading others successfully — and will probably live a lonely life, as well.

Of course, it'll be a great recruitment tool for the company; the more data women enter about their reproductive cycles — and Glow gets personal: It asks about the sexual positions couples use while attempting to conceive, for example — the better Glow will work as Levchin, Huang, and the team apply machine - learning to the information to develop a deeper understanding of how to advise future users on how and when to conceive.

«Defendants and their co-conspirators also obtained, and attempted to obtain, false identification documents to use as proof of identity in connection with maintaining accounts and purchasing advertisements on social media sites,» the indictment says.

Here are some ways I've attempted to use my 30 - minute chunks, and maybe they'll spark some ideas for your marketing spurts as well.

Worse still, some will actually wait until the user attempts to use the function, such as a camera app with a specific filter, then only offer it as a purchase.

As a starting point, I will attempt to recreate the NDP's results, by using the same study on federally regulated workers.

The problem occurs when brands attempt to gather as many followers, likes and retweets as possible through the use of content, including material that does not provide true value, as well as questions.

Jennifer Winter recalls on The Muse the time she had a colleague who used phrases like this as «an attempt to soften the blow.»

This can help to ensure that new capital is not put to use in an attempt to save previous investment decisions — an activity known as «throwing good money after bad.»

However, that didn't stop detractors from arguing that the government could attempt to block the merger since Amazon might use it as a way to dominate a new market with its retail and supply chain power.

By now, most people are likely aware of the government's attempts to use the All Writs Act from 1789 as a tool to force Apple write new software with weaker security so that feds could unlock an iPhone 5c they had in custody.

But making an attempt to do something is necessary, as there is every indication that Russia will continue to try to meddle in US elections moving forward — and it will use the internet to do it.

Netanyahu said, «Hamas commits a double war crime when it deliberately attempts to strike at Israeli citizens and uses Gaza's civil population as a human shield.

I would leave the straight razor to the professionals as these are much harder to use when attempting to shave your own head.

My increasing concern is that we won't see much from the incoming administration that doesn't involve intimidation, misuse of power, self - dealing, and attempts to use discretionary edict - as a substitute for equal protection and legislative process.

Guessing: A hacker attempts to log on to your account using likely words and phrases such as children's names or addresses.

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As the use of computers for business gained widespread adoption, small businesses were attempting to adopt a range of applications once available only to large companies.

Some traders, in an attempt to avoid false signals from the RSI, use more extreme RSI values as buy or sell signals, such as RSI readings above 80 to indicate overbought conditions and RSI readings below 20 to indicate oversold conditions.

Chris Burniske has a new book coming out that frames Bitcoin as both a currency and an asset class, and he's attempting to use monetarist math and the velocity of use as the building blocks.

The case is the most important antitrust case since those that led to the breaking up of AT&T, completed in 1984, and the Department of Justice's attempt to block Microsoft from using its Windows operating system to monopolize software such as Web browsers on computers.

Zuckerberg tried to give a longer answer about how the «average American uses eight different apps» to connect with their friends, attempting to frame Facebook as just one of many apps.

The effort is part of Facebook's reaction to the 2016 U.S. presidential election, when Russian - sponsored actors attempted to intervene by posting ads — as well as using fake users, accounts and groups.

Bank of America cited anti-money laundering concerns as part of its decision to ban its credit card customers from purchasing cryptocurrencies, as well as the possibility that thieves might attempt to use stolen credit cards to purchase cryptocurrencies.

A Taiwanese startup is aiming to use the blockchain technology as it attempts to transform the travel and animal husbandry industries.