Sentences with phrase «writing effort last»

Lena Maul, a broker / owner in Windermere / North in Lynnwood, reports a successful letter - writing effort last month by one of her office's clients.

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«Despite intense efforts to raise money, including a last - ditch mass sale of Easter Eggs, we are sad to report that Tesla has gone completely and totally bankrupt,» Musk wrote in an additional tweet.

«Despite intense efforts to raise money, including a last - ditch mass sale of Easter Eggs, we are sad to report that Tesla has gone completely and totally bankrupt,» Mr. Musk wrote on Twitter.

«Over the last six months, Ryan and I have become increasingly convinced that our rapidly growing marketing efforts needed to be far more integrated with our city operations,» Kalanick wrote in a post announcing Jones's hire.

It also followed some recent wild tweets by Musk about building a cyborg dragon, how his eyebrows can grab things and an April 1 post in which he wrote, «Despite intense efforts to raise money, including a last - ditch mass sale of Easter Eggs, we are sad to report that Tesla has gone completely and totally bankrupt.

«The current US tech - oriented actions against China will lead China to double down its efforts to become technologically independent and develop homegrown technology,» he wrote in a research note last week.

The written law was but the last of a series of futile efforts to bring Israel to God's marriage bed by means of intermediaries.

My husband and I visited Finca El Jaguar last year, and wrote about the farm, coffee, and conservation efforts here at Coffee & Conservation.

Last week I wrote The Time for Change is Now: A Call to Action Part 1 and promised that I would follow up with Part 2 with stories of my family and friends who have inspired me with their volunteer efforts to help Barack Obama win this election.

Last week I wrote that the relentless effort by UK midwives in promoting normal birth is killing babies and mothers.

Last May I wrote a post about children's junk food advertising, the title of which says it all: «Self Regulation of Kids» Food Advertising: A Doomed Effort.»

Also while commending the efforts of authorities in curbing civil unrests, he wrote, «I've already seen some wonderful acts of human kindness over the last few days.

The synthetic biology effort was originally called Human Genome Project 2, but the founders changed the name to Human Genome Project - write by the time of the closed - door meeting last May.

«For the U.S. to pull out now or put the project on hold while we transfer responsibility to a whole new set of players will be a major blow not only to our cooperation with Thailand, but to our high - priority effort to find an HIV vaccine for the developing world,» Hecklinger wrote the Deputy Secretary of Defense last week.

It has been an exceptional franchise in that its global grosses continue to grow with each new installment, with Clint Culpepper's Screen Gems releasing in the U.S. Anderson, who wrote all the screenplays, directed the first film, skipped the next two and returned to direct the last three 3D efforts.

Writing in the weekend's New York Times Magazine, filmmaker Pedro Almodóvar becomes one of the first to begin spitballing the efforts of an actress we're likely to be talking about this time next year: Last year she finally came into her own in America, as she had already done in the rest of the world.

If anything, he was an inspired choice to write and direct «The Avengers»; the only real strike against him getting the job was that his last feature film effort, the 2005 space western «Serenity,» tanked at the box office.

Thus the authors review in detail the educational experiences and points of view of the last President Bush and President Obama, and they would argue that neither No Child Left Behind nor Race to the Top were written in the cards: the programs were specifically shaped by presidents whose own educational experiences demonstrated to them the need for effort and judgment.

«It will take immense effort and ingenuity on the part of local educators to help all students meet these standards and pass these exams,» Mr. Mills wrote in the proposal submitted last week to the state board of regents.

Of course, Steinberg also notes that last year, an energetic Super Bowl Nation reporter wrote of the Atlanta Falcons, «To suggest that ping - pong helped get the team to where it is today, its first Super Bowl berth since [1998], may seem like an effort to oversimplify the situation.

The latest example: Michael Fletcher, writing for the Washington Post on Tuesday, who misleads his readers with the following: «The $ 4.35 billion effort was enacted last year as part of the $ 787 billion economic stimulus plan, marking one of the largest federal expenditures ever on the nation's public schools.»

Marie Groark, a spokeswoman for the foundation, said last week that Mr. Vander Ark would remain with the foundation as a senior fellow, and would spend time writing and speaking about the grantmaking that he managed for the philanthropy's efforts to improve high schools.

Apparently written by someone in Birmingham to a contact in Bradford last year, the undated and unsigned document proposed a co-ordinated effort of installing governors and replacing staff - including head teachers - who were unsympathetic to Muslim doctrines.

In the last of these posts, Martha writes about having to donate her time and extra work to keep up with charter operators that can pay their staff for a full - time effort to take over the school.

Despite the last few decades of intensive school reform efforts, «even the most ardent reformers must admit that public schools and student learning have improved only slightly, if at all,» writes Wolk.

Last week, Eduflack wrote about recent efforts by Congress to provide some needed funding for teachers» jobs by cutting funding for many of the education reforms, like Race to the Top, just enacted or increased last yLast week, Eduflack wrote about recent efforts by Congress to provide some needed funding for teachers» jobs by cutting funding for many of the education reforms, like Race to the Top, just enacted or increased last ylast year.

Last year the group primarily focused on supporting Mayor Bloomberg's effort to destroy tenure in the New York City Schools, writing, «We applaud Mayor Bloomberg's efforts to make tenure decisions more meaningful.»

Should he exert his own effort in getting the perfect piece out and only turn to these writing services at the last minute?

And my best effort will always be geared toward saying that this book will be at least as good as the last book I wrote, if not better.

McManamy's story first came to light in news reports last summer about her efforts to write greeting cards for future landmark events in her daughter's life.

Last week, the Publicity Hound Joan Stewart, Amazon and Library Expert Amy Collins, Authors Virtual Assistant Kelly Johnson, Award - Winning Book Designer Rebecca Finkel, Writing and Audio Expert Mara Purl and yours truly, The Book Shepherd ® shared multiple tips, tricks and ahas to support authors, their books and marketing efforts.

He broke off from that effort last month to write «Kindle Fire: The Missing Manual,» to be published in January as a print volume and an e-book from O'Reilly Media.

I will be giving it a plug in my Monday column at Write Antying — have come across so many wonderful writing pgorgrams since making a decisive effort to use Twitter to connect rather than to be marketed to in the last week.

I lost my job last year, and, in an effort to never return to the corporate environment again, I took the advice of one of my friends to explore the world of freelance writing.

Writing a book is hard work, but the effort doesn't end with the last period.

Many of you participated and helped fund my daughter's spring break trip to Washington, DC and New York City last week (if you don't know what I'm talking about, you can click here or type in http://bit.ly/NEzWll into your web browser to read the post about their collaborative efforts in writing their first Kindle book).

Last time, I wrote about Pinterest and ways to use this trendy social media tool to complement your book publicity efforts.

I was in a blue writing funk last month but made a public commitment to redouble my efforts and push on to finish the first draft of my latest novel.

Our continued effort to publish Thai eBooks was fulfilled last week when we published three poems written by Thai UNESCO - honored poet, Sunthorn Phu.

Buying the shares (& writing about them), I felt like I was in the thick of battle — trying to defend a breached portcullis in a last - ditch & perhaps doomed effort!

It may not be enough to bring people back to a game most had written off even before launch (a quick glance at the Metacritic score tells you people aren't ready to forgive yet), but EA's efforts to claw back some goodwill from players should at least give the game a longer tail than perhaps it would've if we'd coughed up for loot crates in November of last year.

But in a report that I wrote about last year, an expert panel convened by the National Research Council sharply criticized the federal government's efforts to identify possible health or environmental risks of nanotechnology.

I wrote last year about efforts to devise low - tech methods to help preserve fruits and vegetables on the way to markets in hot climates.

Senate Democrats led by Rhode Island's Sheldon Whitehouse wrote ExxonMobil's chief executive Rex Tillerson last week asking if the company sent donations to a financial clearinghouse that backed climate denial efforts after the oil giant said it had stopped directly funding such groups.

If you've written for publication, and have clearly already gone to significant effort, then it seems like a relatively small further effort to take the one last step and write it up formally.

Last year, George Clooney wrote about the charitable efforts of Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt.

The USA Today Editorial Board write «As a National Academy of Sciences panel reported last week, solar geoengineering is no substitute for efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and adapt to a changing climate.»

Suddenly however it's «the Sputnik of our day,» as Tom Friedman wrote last week in one of two buzz - wordy columns praising green efforts in China that could put the rest of the world to shame.

Imponderables, to the last breath, the effort of man to emerge unharmed from such struggles», writes the artist.

During the last few years, tiny houses have been catching on in a big way: there are now television shows devoted to them, scads of blogs about them, and even efforts afoot to get them written into the international residential code.