Sentences with phrase «very recent efforts»

First, they didn't seek to learn from the past, and even from their very recent efforts.

Not exact matches

And there's some recent history that explains the very public effort.

In more recent years, our advocacy efforts have also focused on regional issues, from our very public role in the 2015 transit and transportation plebiscite, to our work around Metro Vancouver's proposed Bylaw 280 and regional waste management, our longstanding calls for a mobile business licence program across Greater Vancouver, and our advocacy at all levels of government to invest in roads, bridges, and Pacific Gateway trade infrastructure across the region.

It looked like being another very quiet afternoon for Sanchez as the winger has struggled for form in recent weeks but the Chilean dragged Arsenal level with a low effort with 15 minutes in the game left.

The problem: Citizens United has very little to do with the sort of corruption that has swept through Albany in recent years, which means that Cuomo's effort is akin to responding to a Taliban attack by invading Iraq, albeit with far less bloodshed.

«The chairman of the committee on Science Space and Technology is making what to us is a pretty ludicrous assertion, that rather than trying to protect the rights of citizens to ensure that business fraud, and could be very significant business fraud we could talk about inflating up assets by many billions of dollars, their claim is that this is a politically charged effort to silence descending views on climate,» Schneiderman said on a recent visit to Syracuse.

No, she's not actually playing Janis Joplin — but Bette Midler's powerhouse performance in «The Rose» as a fearsomely talented, self - destructive and very Joplin-esque singer was the closest we've gotten to Janis onscreen, despite numerous recent efforts.

In the last fifteen years, Norman Lear has been justifiably canonized as a pioneer and innovator in the world of socially conscious television; but his most recent TV projects, such as the very shortlived Sunday Dinner, tend to be sourly reactionary efforts, lacking the cutting - edge brilliance of his best work.

«Funcom has gone through some challenging times in recent years and seeing the game we have poured so much time and effort into gain this amount of traction so quickly is very invigorating for everyone who works here.

Knightley scrubs some of the char off her namesake that she's earned with her most recent effort, offering a loafer of a character who, at the very least, comes with a few extra layers attached.

A recent episode of Freakonomics Radio looks at an effort to reduce violence and dropout rates among young men in the Chicago Public Schools using a very inexpensive intervention: cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT).

It is very clear that Jeff Mirel made no effort whatsoever to get data more recent than those on any of these programs.

The political opposition and technical challenges around tenure reform have historically prevented these efforts from advancing very far in state legislatures, but both have decreased in recent years.

Policymakers have targeted almost no attention or funding on efforts to improve the reading proficiencies of students in grades 5 — 12 — the very grades that need improvement, according to recent international comparisons.

So while «efforts over recent decades to recruit more minority teachers and place them in schools serving disadvantaged and minority students have been very successful,» the report states, «there continues to be a persistent racial - ethnic parity gap between the percentage of minority students and the percentage of minority teachers in the U.S. school system.»

As Jen noted, the interior is beautiful and very stylish, typical of Volvo's recent efforts.

Playful yet very much attuned to a notion of found beauty, these sculptures ($ 5,500 for the cheese ones, $ 6,000 for the basketball) were the most recent efforts by Chiappa, who on the side does high - profile design work — his company built the store Moss in New York — and who currently has a solo show at MASS MoCA running through next spring.

I think that short commentaries like this on recent climate science papers and reports that are «in the news» are very valuable to your readers, and hopefully don't take as much time and effort as the longer, in - depth analyses of studies that you do so well.

And efforts to establish some sort of long term warming trend hidden away due to other factors have required a great many very complex and convoluted statistical calesthenics — all of which have been rendered irrelevant thanks to the recent data «corrections» by Karl et al..

Recent investigations have shown that in fact hunter - gatherer societies enjoyed a remarkable quality of life characterized by low levels of effort, plenty of leisure time, good nutrition, low levels of disease, egalitarianism, very low levels of suicide, homicide and warfare, a high degree of personal autonomy and close - knit communities.

Dec. 19, 1:44 p.m. Updated below A very important research effort has been under way during recent summers in the warming, increasingly ice - free shallows off Russia's Siberian coast.

Here is more on the very recent decline in global fossil fuel consumption, due mainly to the economic recession but also perhaps to efforts in some nations toward climate change mitigation:

Though it's difficult to exactly trace the influence of lobbying money, by its very nature, both Philpott and OpenSecrets squarely place the blame for recent failures of efforts to label GMO ingredients in Congress, as well as the FDA thoroughly dragging its feet on GMO labeling, questioning the validity of petitions demanding labeling, on the massive influence of Monsanto.

And far from the initial effort to show the potential effect being risible as Schmidt says, it showed that bucket adjustments might very well «matter» and my most recent thoughts seem rather prescient in retrospect.

In any case, it is simply an effort to reconcile the rapid rates of warming in the Arctic with the output of the most recent group of global climate models — everyone agrees that global warming is real, except for a very large number of editors and reporters with the U.S. press, who continue to advocate for the positions held by a small number of fossil fuel funded contrarians and insist on giving them «equal time» — a luxury denied to renewable energy experts.

It is very likely we will see efforts to pressure Chairman Ring into recusals like the recent campaign against Member Emanuel.

In recent years, airlines and airports have taken serious measures to reduce the occurrences of loss luggage, and their efforts have been very successful.

On its own, that isn't a very surprising announcement, given Honeywell's recent efforts in the smart home space.

That's why it's unlikely to feature an entire screen curve like the LG or Samsung efforts of the past did, which didn't do so well - unlike the more recent S6 and S7 edge phones which are very popular.

Data center - driven inferencing is a very competitive market right now, however, because Intel and others have had some success here (such as Intel's recent efforts with Microsoft to use FPGA chips to enable more contextual and intelligent Bing searches).