Sentences with phrase «very long effort»

Because statewide assessment was new in Vermont, this project was conceptualized as a system that would take hold gradually — it would be decentralized and «a very long effort» (Mills & Brewer, 1988, as cited in Koretz et al., 1994).

Not exact matches

Intuitively, it makes sense that striving to beat someone who competes at or just above our level and with whom we have a long track record will increase both effort and performance; winning is suddenly very personal.

The ice balls release with very little effort & last a very long time... They are Awesome!

Unfortunately, that's the very nature of research: despite efforts to accelerate innovation, basic research takes as long as ever because of the thoroughness, rigorous testing, and extended time required for commercialization.

Many of us were very low profile for a long time by no accident, but when efforts to steam roll things started it seemed like the options were to speak up or bail out...

I said that it shouldn't be willfully ignored the way that it is, It may well hold the secret to the decades long effort to find a true cosmological principle that explains why quantum theory is so very wrong when it comes to hierarchy problems from first principles.

Sir Oliver Lodge very justly remarked not so long ago that, properly understood, the doctrine of evolution is a «school of hope» — and, let us add, a school of ever greater mutual charity and ever greater effort.

If the product of their work is not taken seriously» as, for instance, an invaluable reference in a synod of bishops dedicated to a program of comprehensive reform» it may be a very, very long time before people of their quality will make a comparable effort to help the bishops with much of anything.

Even if we determine the meanings the writer had in mind when he used a particular phrase, the very fact that we have to make an effort to see his point reveals that he no longer communicates directly.

Whilst missionary efforts met with considerable success in the Americas, Australasia and Sub-Saharan Africa, Christianity, despite considerable support in the Philippines and South Korea, remains very much a minority religion in most Asian and North African countries, where the great faiths of Hinduism, Buddhism and Islam have been long established.

Since then, I take all kinds of steps to prepare for air travel, especially long, international flights and find the extra effort to be very much worth it.

It'll keep in the fridge for as long as it'll last (which is never very long, in my experience) and is absolutely worth every second of effort.

Once I realised how exciting and not to mention addictive it was to play The Pantry Game, I started doing it more often and before long there was so much more variety at our meal table with very little effort.

This is one of those «mindless» recipes that does not take long at all to make and requires very little effort to get you a healthy and tasty meal.

His set - piece deliveries were very hit and miss, but Eriksen covered a lot of ground and tested Ospina with a couple of long - range efforts.

«When you have had longevity in the game like Arsene has, and I have been in the Premier League for a long time, our paths have crossed on numerous occasions, we had a few run - ins but other times we were very civil and respectful of each other's efforts.

Cazorla: [6.5 / 10] As usual, Santi had two very good long - range efforts, both of which were saved by Green.

Weir very nearly had a long range shot equalize for them only to have Chelsea «keeper Carly Telford stop the effort easily at the near post.

There will always be those children that start to sleep through the night, with no trouble, super early on, and then there will be others who, despite your best efforts, refuse to sleep for a very long time.

State Conservative Party Chairman Mike Long said the governor's effort actually «undermines the very essence of what made New York State the Empire State,» because it seeks to protect people regardless of whether they are in the country legally.

Similarly, the tax code contains lengthy and difficult long sections pertaining to the tax treatment of mergers and breakups into multiple companies of publicly held companies, and the tax treatment of related companies in multinational groups of affiliated companies, that have to be very detailed in an effort to prevent taxes from being avoided by restructuring a transaction in a way that wouldn't otherwise be considered or make economic sense.

Both men have very long histories in campaign politics; Rogers served as deputy campaign manager for George H.W. Bush's 1988 presidential campaign while Griffith served as southern regional political director of that effort.

The first strike against Mr. Recchia's campaign came long before any of his verbal missteps, in the very place his effort started: Brooklyn.

Businesses in the public and private sectors teach people to recognize phishing, but those efforts often fail or don't work for very long because the training ignores users» habits and instead focuses exclusively on how users process information, says Vishwanath, whose latest research on email habits and phishing outcomes is published in the Journal of Computer - Mediated Communication.

Longer, hotter fire seasons where extreme fire behavior has become the new norm, as well as increased development in forested areas, is dramatically driving up the cost of fighting fires and squeezing funding for the very efforts that would protect watersheds and restore forests to make them more resilient to fire.

If all went as planned, Glen Wurden would be a very happy man, and one experiment closer in his long - shot effort to exploit a nearly limitless source of energy.

«Our capabilities and culture are a very good fit for tackling long - term problems that require a sustained effort.»

Yes, Lewis is yet another living proof that determination and continuous effort can take almost anyone to the very top, as long as the person sticks to his / her goals and believes in himself / herself.

The reason for this is very simple: when you don't eat enough to support the healthy functioning of every system in the organism for longer periods, your body slows down some of them in an effort to spare energy for more vital functions, and the reproductive system is the first one to get shut.

The same goes for women who have previously been diagnosed with PCOS, for example; as long as we are using hormonal birth control, it is very hard to know if any efforts to rebalance hormones have actually shifted the levels and ratios of the hormones your body naturally is making.

You won't have to doubt yourself or make any second guesses about your training plan any longer... you'll instantly know that all of your effort in the gym is being put to the very best use possible.

Even if you are attempting to speed up weight loss by keeping your daily carb intake to below 100 g you can see that it can be done with very little effort or thought as long as you stick to nuts / seeds, fruits, veggies, and meat.

As I mentioned already there are many different variations of HIIT cardio, all are very effective as long as you give 90 % or 100 % of your efforts.

Sure they spend a lot of time in the gym, but they have VERY long rest periods and rarely do intense efforts for long.

I don't consider myself very knowledgable in that regard but I do make an effort and have for a long time now.

It is nothing more than EHarmony's effort to take money from the very segment of society that they have for so long chosen to discriminate against.

One of his most accomplished early directorial efforts is SO LONG AT THE FAIR (1950) starring a very young Jean Simmons and Dirk Bogarde.

In 2005, his sophomore effort L'esquive — a raw, direct exploration of teenage sexual politics in the banlieues (the French suburban hoods) by way of eighteenth century playwright Marivaux - unexpectedly trumped critical favorite Kings and Queen and populist heavyweights A Very Long Engagement and Oscar nominee The Chorus at the César Awards, winning Best Picture, Best Director and Best Screenplay.

At 30 minutes, there's certainly a feeling that the album could have run far longer and been even more satisfying, but even so this should be in any James Newton Howard fan's collection, and while he has written many fine scores since, this remains one of his very best efforts.

But, as a mature gamer who is very conscious of my purchases, I appreciated it and would welcome similar efforts — as long as it was clear who the intended audiences were, as it was here.

It is very predictable but overall this film surprised me by actually having some heart and effort, and it's one of the best family films I've seen in a very long time.

In their effort to be contemporary, the researchers omit all sorts of long - term trends and patterns that might be even more revealing than the «very latest» data.

Among the findings: (1) art activities can be integrated into classroom content and used to encourage rehearsal - type activities (such as songs) that incorporate relevant subject matter, (2) incorporating information into story, poem, song, or art form may place the knowledge in context, which can help students remember it, especially if the students are creating art that relates subject matter to themselves, (3) through artistic activities like writing a story or creating a drawing, students generate information they might otherwise have simply read, which will very likely lead to better long - term retention of that information, (4) physically acting out material, such as in a play, helps learners recall information, (5) speaking words aloud results in better retention than reading words in silence, (6) increasing the amount of effort involved in learning new information (such as being asked to discern meaning from an ambiguous sentence or to interpret a work of art) is positively associated with its retention, (7) emotionally charged content is easier to remember than content linked to events that are emotionally neutral, and (8) information presented as pictures is retained better than the same information presented as words.

Duckworth calls grit «the tendency to sustain interest in and effort toward very long - term goals.»

These lessons are suitable for higher GCSE pupils especially «AS and A level,» students The author provides a step by step method of using the long division metod to divide algebraic fractions and polynomials and then he goes on to provide a very fast method of dividing algebraic divisions and complex polynomials which saves the pupils enormous time and effort for doing the same work.

When they were first getting started, they borrowed a piece of equipment from the local council, which Moody describes as «a camera on a very long pole», in an effort to see which species were using the boxes.

According to the Character Lab website, grit is «the tendency to sustain interest in and effort toward very long - term goals.

The Prize: Who's In Charge of America's Schools: Plenty of well - deserved praise and equally - warranted scorn has been heaped upon New Yorker writer Dale Russakoff's report on the very mixed success of now - former Newark Supt. Cami Anderson's effort to overhaul the New Jersey city's long - floundering district.

For instance, arguably the trendiest thing going in education today is «grit `: «the tendency to sustain interest in and effort toward very long - term goals».

If Americans do not make systematic efforts to address how to get parents back into the schools, he warns, they will likely face an uphill battle with some very unpleasant long - term consequences for the country.