Sentences with phrase «which drove the effort»

Perhaps the most influential — and unexpected force — in this year's race is the local Democratic Party, which drove the effort to knock majority candidates off of the ballot.

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To drive traffic to the stores we direct our efforts in guiding you to implement a variety of marketing tactics and the development of a Local Store Marketing plan which includes proven tactics such as on - site sampling, direct mail campaigns, bounce back coupons, loyalty programs and more.

As an example, nearly all CMOs may share a desire for insight into which efforts are driving the best leads.

In three rounds, the last of which concluded in 2014, the central bank credited itself with funds that it then used to buy debt — Treasurys and mortgage - backed securities, the latter in an effort to drive down rates on housing loans during the worst real estate market since the Great Depression.

With the current roll - out of semi-autonomous functions, which it says will pave the way for full autonomy on highways by 2020, Honda says it differs from rivals, whose self - driving efforts have centered on their luxury models.

, which we announced this morning, will accelerate the expansion of our delivery network and amplify our diner acquisition efforts, raising consumer awareness of online ordering and driving more volume for all restaurants across our platform,» Grubhub CEO Matt Maloney told CNBC in a statement.

By seeing firsthand which keywords are driving calls, you'll be able to better understand which marketing efforts are working and which ones need to be fine - tuned.

But Levandowski — the original architect of Google's self - driving cars — will now be leading all of Uber's self - driving efforts, which includes Otto.

The moves come following Uber's acquisition of self - driving trucking company Otto in August, which put co-founder Anthony Levandowski in charge of the company's autonomous efforts above existing directors Raffi Krikorian — who was previously at Twitter and joined Uber in March 2015 — and John Bares — who was poached from Carnegie Robotics in January 2015.

SUPERVALU's board, however, rejected those recommendations, saying in a statement that they're «confident that their ongoing efforts to transform the Company are driving growth and enhancing SUPERVALU's unique competitive position,» which includes primarily pivoting to a wholesale business through acquisitions.

Mr. Brauer said the partnership between Volvo and Uber, which plan to invest $ 300 million in their self - driving car effort, was part of a growing trend of big automakers joining forces with technology firms.

There must be a concerted effort to leverage our region's distinct advantages and to ensure that an environment is created in which market forces can drive growth, and build a better economy for all residents of British Columbia.

Even Alphabet's self - driving company Waymo, which says it's possible it will supply its self - driving tech to automakers but in the meantime is working on its own cars in partnership with those automakers, brought their hardware efforts in - house in an attempt to edge out traditional suppliers.

This effort was in a measure successful but it is interesting to note that in the Middle Ages Peter Abelard was nevertheless driven to write his Liber Sententiarum sic et non citing over one hundred and fifty subjects on which the early Fathers were in considerable disagreement with one another!

The FIA have put lots of effort into making sure the 2017 cars are faster and more exciting to watch and drive, but it seems like the impact this will have on the racing has been largely ignored until now, which is weird because, you know, it's a race.

Without question, it was those efforts, spontaneously created and driven by blogs and their readers, which led directly to the principled stand Chris Dodd took yesterday in defense of the rule of law.

Also in TechBytes: more detail on Obama's data - driven TV ad - buying effort, which helped him get far more bang for the buck than his rival (though with one caveat: I've also heard it said that Romney's ad - buying was particularly incompetent, which may skew the numbers).

On a positive note his liberalisation efforts, which include finally allowing woman to drive and promises to shift towards a more moderate Islam, are a much - needed step in the right direction for a Kingdom where extreme and reactionary implementations of Islamic laws have for far too long restricted and repressed the basic rights and freedoms of its people.

His efforts are mostly made manifest after an election cycle which has just hit the NDC in the face and drove the party into opposition.

He's committed to making Central Park, once and for all, completely car - free, to advocating for protected bike lanes on Manhattan's Riverside Drive, and to leading an effort to improve conditions on the city's greenways, including the Cherry Walk section of the Hudson River Greenway, which is badly in need of safety improvements.

«We can not afford taxes that penalise effort, energy, and innovation, and which drive away entrepreneurs and capital.

After a $ 69 million renovation, Building 5 will become the home of OGS» Business Services Center — which consolidated back - office functions such as supply procurement from many agencies as part of the state's streamlining efforts — and similar data - driven services such as the State Financial System and E-Licensing.

«There are too many schools where poor behaviour is undermining teachers» efforts to raise standards and which is driving teachers out of the profession.

Schreibman argues the Republican congressman's effort to cast himself as a pragmatic centrist is undercut by his voting record, in which he generally — but not always — sides with the House leadership, whose agenda is driven by the more conservative members of the conference.

«Because our lives are really a gigantic collective effort in which one person's bulk makes up for another person's slightness of stature and where everyone is so tightly bound together that one person's forward progress drives another person's forward progress and that is the society we need — not just a big society, but a united society.»

The three primary drivers were oil price, which would drive enhanced recovery efforts; carbon tax levels, which would incentivize the trapping of carbon dioxide; and how fast knowledge is gained about the technology, allowing innovations to drive down capital costs.

In the case of the Olkiluoto 3 EPR, he notes that safety engineers designed a reactor with more pumps and valves to prevent the loss of any coolant, «but there wasn't as much effort into designing for construction,» which is driving the overruns.

That's the driving idea behind a global policy effort we helped pioneer, known as REDD +, which stands for reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation.

Other corporate positions in Baxter included the spearheading and execution of innovation efforts which led to the creation of a global innovation council, corporate incubator group and implementation of innovation processes globally to drive growth for the corporation.

«It's an amazing exposé, which suggests there was a coordinated effort in South Africa to bring me [down] and that it was driven by industry.

Needless to say, this film is hardly as driven by its musical aspects as its 1969 counterpart, and makes sure to remind you by underusing Richard Addinsell's score, which, upon actually being used, is typically not fleshed out to the fullest, and is all too often tainted by a degree of conventionalism that further disengages, but ultimately does only so much damage to Addinsell's efforts, which are still spirited enough and recurring enough to play something of a hefty part in breathing some liveliness into this generally dry project.

It has taken nearly half a century to bring to the screen this particular tragic incident that rocked the star - crossed Kennedy political dynasty, but in some ways it is more relevant than ever, particularly in its depiction of efforts to shape the story in order to save Kennedy's career and his very real presidential ambitions, which basically sank along with the car he drove into the water.

I enjoyed Nicolas Winding Refn's last effort «Drive,» which you could say is a combination of both.

Their efforts lead to a comedy of errors, which drives the rest of the movie.

Along with some fairly dull commentary tracks (the first by director Oliver Stone, in which he so graciously delivers morsels of wisdom like «This is Will Jimeno driving to work,» and a second by the real - life Jimeno and some of his rescuers), the two - disc effort also includes nine delete / extended scenes because, well, the movie was already too long, and a three - part making - of documentary running nearly an hour long.

The Washington - based research organization, which supports deregulation and market - driven school improvement efforts, gives the United States as a whole a D - plus in its report, «The Quest for Better Teachers: Grading the States.»

To bring this same innovation to school report cards, the Foundation for Excellence in Education (ExcelinEd), in partnership with Getting Smart, has launched the My School Information Design Challenge (#schoolinfo)-- a national competition to rethink and redesign the way in which key data is presented on school report cards so that they can drive decisions, spark discussions and support the efforts of state departments of education.

Data systems, which are ways of collecting and tracking information about school, student, and teacher performance, are key elements in driving the Obama administration's reform effort.

All of Boston's public schools are now part of that change effort, which is driven by the learning needs of students in each school.

These include Alignment Institutes; the ADP Assessment Consortium, which allows states to share best practices and drive improvements in effective assessment; and the College - and Career - Ready Policy Institute, a comprehensive technical assistance effort supporting work in eight states with support from a number of other national partners.

It's important to think hard about states, which have constitutional authority over K - 12 and provide most of the money, but historically have done little to drive reform efforts.

While those AMOs are supposed to «guide support and improvement efforts,» according to the Education Department, they won't determine which schools are turnaround or «focus» schools — the 15 percent of a state's schools that get the most intervention — nor will they drive when schools can get out from under those labels.

Talented educators engage in a series of training sessions in which they explore research and strategies rooted in participant - driven improvement processes and apply them to related efforts they are involved with in their own school settings.

«The decades - long drive by various administration to federalize education, which seems to be hitting its peak under President Obama's effort to require national standards, is wrong - headed for a myriad of empirical and governance reasons.

Minority teachers are being driven out of schools by poor working conditions at rates higher than their non-minority colleagues, which only undermines years of recruitment efforts that have targeted minority teachers.

The three schools, which primarily serve low - income students and students of color, saw their teaching corps disproportionately decimated by a round of budget - driven layoffs last year, causing their education efforts to fall below the state constitutional guarantee that all students will receive a basic education consistent with prevailing statewide standards.

Faxon - Mills, Hamilton, Rudnick, and Stecher (2013) found that these tests, which typically measured basic knowledge, drove teachers to spend more effort «promoting basic skills while devoting less attention to helping students develop creativity and imagination» (p. 16).

Frontier and Rickabaugh use an extended analogy of a traffic safety director trying (ineffectively) various reforms to improve road safety statistics to demonstrate how many reform efforts only maintain the status quo or bring transactional change (in which incentives drive change), rather than the transformational change many schools need.

In his effort to pinpoint which communities win and which lose, Malloy is also proposing a significant change to the way in which poverty is defined, a factor that drives how much money towns get under Connecticut's education formulas.

Leading Educators» programming represents a comprehensive effort to increase teacher effectiveness, which research consistently shows is the single most powerful lever for driving student academic outcomes.