Sentences with phrase «vast efforts at»

Coupled with the history of private diaries and vast efforts at creative writing, there is evidence that today's youth are highly motivated to write for self - expression and to communicate.

This is precisely why abortion advocates expend such vast efforts at international meetings pushing for abortion policies that do in fact seek to subvert the democratic process by foisting an a priori abortion agenda on nations around the world.

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Roari has vast experience working with National and Provincial Organizers, coordinating the outreach efforts of NDP MPs, and managing and supporting political engagement campaigns at the municipal, provincial and federal levels.

Labour lost because they: a) broke manifold electoral promises b) lied shamelessly to the people and parliament c) engaged in industrial - scale corruption and lame cover - up d) wilfully enraged their newest supporters e) eschewed democracy at every opportunity f) treated the electorate like idiots g) alienated a vast constituency of voters with strong personal interest in the well - being of our servicemen h) inherited the most benign of economies and recklessly maxed out the public debt i) devoted inordinate time and effort to policies based on immature class war antics j) engaged in open internal dissent while being too cowardly to take any definitive action k) offered a wholly negative electoral campaign Unless confidence is restored in these areas, Labour will continue to be despised.

«A man who faces decades in prison for his own vast and hidden criminality struck a cooperation deal... in a desperate effort to save himself,» Keating said at the time.

Later today, Mr Cameron will launch a «messianic» trade offensive at a meeting with business leaders, in an effort to move on from Lockerbie and focus on driving economic recovery in the UK in the face of the vast budget cuts.

Massey, who has raised and spent well over a million dollars in his campaign so far and is contributing some of his own vast wealth to the effort, is seen as the frontrunner at this point.

BOSTON — Efforts to close the word gap — the vast difference in the number of words heard by children from low - income and higher - income homes — by working with the parents and caregivers of very young children have shown promising new results in the behavior of parents and children, according to three researchers at a Feb. 17 briefing at the 2017 AAAS Annual Meeting in Boston.

New research from Carnegie's Ivana Cvijanovic (now at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory) and Ken Caldeira, as well as Douglas MacMartin of Caltech, shows that while an incredibly large effort could, in principle, restore vast amounts of sea ice by this method, it would not result in substantial cooling.

Chancellor Klein hit the ground running, talking to Michele Cahill, a senior program officer at the Carnegie Corporation with vast experience, the day after his July 2002 appointment — and asking her to lead the high - school reform efforts.

Yet even with this ambitious effort — which far exceeds the outreach in the vast majority of cities — only about 140 parents sought transfers, says Lew Frederick, director of information at the Portland Public Schools.

Additionally, research from scholars at University of California - Davis found that approaches to bullying and harassment have a better chance of success if bystanders, who make up the vast majority, are the focus of efforts to shift social norms.

Gist, whose reform efforts led to the firings of all teachers and staff at one of the state's worst - performing schools, said test scores in the state need vast improvement, the graduation rate must grow and too few high school graduates — just more than half — are heading directly to college.

Now, or beginning at some point between now and June 30, Amazon will be making a major effort to organize the vast majority of Kindle store prices so that they fall in the $ 2.99 to $ 9.99 range.

Wealthy people could use help managing their vast enterprises, and reducing their own efforts at home that take them away from their profitable endeavors.

The issue is complex and vast, with efforts to begin spaying and neutering the animals on a national level in an effort to begin chipping away at the problem hitting roadblocks.

In discussing oil shale, Mr. Bush made a fresh effort to get Democrats in Congress to consider unlocking the vast deposits of the Green River Basin, saying the cost of production is low enough to make such supplies competitive at current prices.

Aside from the difficulty in testing an arbitrary number of camera apps and modes, this approach reflects the experience of the vast majority of smartphone photographers, who use their devices in the default setting, and also of the phone vendor, who presumably makes an effort to have the default setting present the camera at its best.

The vast majority of executives spend most or all of their job search efforts on job boards, but very few of them − especially executives at the top level (c - suite, President, GM, SVP, etc.) − land jobs through job boards.