Sentences with phrase «weak efforts by»

That also means that praise should not be given for trivial accomplishments or weak efforts by students such as minor task completion or the student completing their responsibilities.

A very weak effort by Fiat / Alfa, which is probably why it's been delayed year after year.

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If they get to the end of your content feeling no better off than before they started reading / listening / watching it, you not only did a disservice to your business with your weak effort — you've done the entire Web a disservice by cluttering it up with yet more junk.

Chapter 2 looks at efforts by policymakers to revive weak credit growth, which has been seen by many as a primary reason behind the slow economic recovery.

It did so by reminding its readers that the SEC's efforts to apply the fiduciary standard to brokers «have been stymied by financial - industry opposition and weak Congressional support.»

Last week, Sechin was quoted as saying that the recent rise in oil prices was due to a weak dollar, instead of efforts by OPEC to combat the global crude supply glut.

Canon is stepping up efforts to take advantage of a weak yen by moving some of its production back home, in a move that could signal a shift in momentum of the Japanese manufacturing sector.

In this effort I hope to show that Hartshorne's thought is an improvement with respect to some of the weaker features of virtue ethics as it has been defended by some recent philosophers, in particular regarding the allegation made by virtue ethnicians that deontology and utilitarianism are defective because they depend on abstract rules.

If persons are to grow, the therapist must resist their efforts to project responsibility by saying, in effect, «I am weak, confused, helpless.

U.S. and European wine regions step up campaign to protect online wine names American winemakers were joined by their counterparts from Champagne at a conference on deregulating internet domain names in an effort to boost awareness of how weaker controls would negatively impact the wine business...

In Lionel Messi, Barca still possessed an obvious difference maker, and on one of the few occasions he got free his weak effort from a corner had to be flicked away by Proto's leg, with the goalkeeper unsighted by Suarez.

Despite Saturday's opponents appearing a great deal weaker at first glance than Aston Villa, Blackpool will still take some beating judging by their most recent effort against Fulham when earning a 2 - 2 draw at the Cottage.

Besides the 2013 University of Washington study, a number of other recent studies have found education ineffective in improving self - reporting by athletes, adding to a growing body of evidence challenging the conventional wisdom that inadequate athlete concussion knowledge is the principal barrier to increased reporting, and suggesting that one of the best ways to combat underreporting by athletes of concussion symptoms may be to shift the focus of educational efforts towards helping coaches facilitate concussion reporting, the theory being that athletes will be more likely to report concussion symptoms if they no longer think that they will be punished by the coach for reporting, such as by losing playing time or their starting position, perceived by their teammates as letting them down, or viewed by their coach as «weak,» all of which have been documented in numerous studies over the past decade as reasons athletes are reluctant to report concussion symptoms.

The two factions compromised on a semi-presidential system with a weak president in an effort to reassure secularists concerned about being excluded from power by Ennahda - led parliamentary coalitions.

Efforts to tackle low - level crime by forcing police officers to investigate anti-social behaviour complaints are being criticised as «weak» by the opposition.

While the designer thought the finished product felt «a little weak,» he said the effort was likely an attempt by the campaign to emphasize Quinn's status as the race's only female candidate — while perhaps trying to play down her perceived brashness.

This law is so weak, critics say, that an EPA effort to ban asbestos — a class of fibrous minerals known to cause the deadly lung cancer mesothelioma — got struck down by a federal court in 1991 because the agency had failed to comply with another TSCA mandate that the agency pick the «least burdensome» way of regulating a substance.

Using multispecies models, the study's authors found that in these cases, marine reserves always produce significantly higher yields of both strong and weak stocks than by restricting fishing efforts alone.

If this time / effort relationship were exactly true then a person could become insanely strong, but small by using the longer rest times, or much bigger but weaker by using the shorter rest times.

Heineman ultimately settles on a pair of divisive figures from both sides of the border: On the one hand, Dr. José Manuel Mireles, the galvanizing leader of the Michoacán - based militant group Autodefensas, provides a welcome alternative to the weak efforts of the state's police to combat cartel - related violence; on the other, by virtue of taking the law into his own hands, his gun - wielding army sets a dangerous precedent.

are among the most celebrated of contemporary American filmmakers, and there is often sniping that their weaker efforts unfairly avoid the savaging that would be incurred by anyone else.

The second of three cinematic King adaptations from Frank Darabont, The Green Mile is by far the weakest of the director's efforts, too often falling into bathos, treacly sentimentality and overlong extrapolation of its central conceit.

The decision to depict her weaker, more vulnerable side was largely an effort to help players form a stronger, more emotional bond with Samus: a bold move that ultimately proved unsuccessful, marred further by questionable voice acting and poor writing.

Though fans of Affleck's previous movies will still find plenty to enjoy here, «Live by Night» is easily his weakest directorial effort to date.

Unnerved by job losses, weak test scores, and competition from an increasingly skilled foreign workforce, state officials have launched a variety of efforts to improve STEM education.

Charter critics have argued that large achievement gains at No Excuses charter schools are driven in part by efforts to encourage weaker or less committed students to leave.

The hard left immediately before the straightaway that led to the finish was by far the Kia's weakest part of the course, requiring either a wide arc to keep both wheels turning or a near - stop braking effort followed by extremely judicious use of throttle to avoid peg - legging out of the turn.

There's a temptation to think that we can compensate for a weak savings effort by shooting for higher investment returns.

Policy makers assume inflation will be back at its two - percent target by the middle of 2018, but said they will spend extra efforts studying price movements to get a better feel for why inflation indicators are so weak.

The «hub» model used by many of the current regional and statewide efforts is specifically built on this idea of the stronger helping the weaker.

«Cambodia's efforts to eliminate this slave trade have been hindered by corruption, poor law enforcement, and a weak judiciary system.»

The decision to depict her weaker, more vulnerable side was largely an effort to help players form a stronger, more emotional bond with Samus: a bold move that ultimately proved unsuccessful, marred further by questionable voice acting and poor writing.

The report on impacts of climate change — one of three main sections of each of the panel's periodic assessments — has long been seen by some climate scientists, including some participants in the I.P.C.C. process, as a relatively weak element in the overall effort, in part because it has less scientific literature to draw on.

The consensus was even disputed by «skeptics» in a live chat about the Frontline program, and in yet another weak Heartland effort from Jim Lakely.

His weak grasp of evidence law and the Rules of Civil Procedure led to considerable time and effort spent by opposing counsel to address matters (for example, the testimony of «experts» that the court ultimately refused to qualify as experts) that never amounted to anything.

By putting in the effort to truly know the local market and the overall industry trends influencing the business of real estate, real estate pros immediately gain the competitive advantage needed to survive each cycle of real estate; weak or strong.