Sentences with phrase «year effort of»

The images were acquired through the 15 - year effort of Robert C. Palmer, Cullen professor of history and law at the University of Houston, to negotiate the license.

Illinois» fix to their funding formula — a high profile legislative change — was fueled by a four - year effort of a massive coalition,

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North Korea has long been largely shut to foreign investors, an isolation that deepened when the United Nations ratcheted up sanctions last year in an effort to curb its development of nuclear weapons.

Viome recently hired Guruduth Banavar, the former head of cognitive computing at IBM Research who spent years working on Watson, to lead its A.I. efforts.

This is an enormous need for solar capacity: Only in 2015, after years of effort and investment, did the U.S. as a whole reach 20 GW of solar - generating capacity.

Despite the best efforts of politicians, experts, and journalists to predict how the political landscape will change over the next few years, nobody really knows what it will happen.

Home Depot said it was too early to compare the scale of this year's operation with earlier efforts or to estimate how much Harvey would cost it.

While employees from enterprise companies (defined as companies with 500 or more employees) like Salesforce and Dell have held memberships at the co-working spaces in the past, WeWork started making a concerted effort to tailor its spaces to these types of workers about a year ago.

And then at the end of that year, just before things really took off in crypto, White focused his efforts on attracting Wall Street clients: brokerages, large global banks, and hedge funds.

Get a head start on next year's marketing efforts with this batch of apps for all five of the major networks.

For some people it takes years of hard work, stressful days, and sleepless nights, but like anything you put time and energy into, the end result is definitely worth the effort.

At the beginning of 2017, just before the big crypto boom that defined last year, See started to devote all of his efforts to the new venture.

Retailers seem to be pulling out of their years - long malaise, helped by a strong economy and their own efforts to finally adapt to the Amazon.com (amzn) world.

Meanwhile, the turmoil at Politico may be giving some media watchers déjà vu, or at least flashbacks to another Allbritton - backed venture that went through substantial upheaval: In 2010, a number of senior journalists including former Washington Post digital chief Jim Brady started an ambitious hyperlocal effort called TBD, only to have the entire effort implode in less than two years after what appeared to be a power struggle with Allbritton over the future direction of the site.

Collins, a moderate who voted against the GOP's efforts to repeal and replace Obamacare earlier this year, says the bills will offset the impact of the loss of the individual mandate, but experts largely disagree, arguing that the elimination of the mandate will spike health costs and reduce choice in plans.

«By design, we will be more promotional and increase our marketing efforts for the remainder of the year, as we will aggressively protect our market share,» Chief Executive Edward Stack said in a statement.

In fact, in an effort to make sure he feeds his mind a steady diet of good books this year, he has vowed to read something new every two weeks, starting an online book club to keep himself on track and inspire others.

Those efforts have started to pay off, said Arbid, who noted that around 39 percent of the country's revenue last year came from non-oil sectors.

His efforts come after a year of distractions for the company as the Redstones battled to maintain control, resulting in the departure of former CEO Philippe Dauman.

«That's why, in the past years, we have invested a lot of effort to communicate with operators, distributors, and partners.

Since 2012, Labatt Breweries has used its London, Ont., factory for one day each year to produce cans of water, ready to help emergency relief efforts.

Fusion Power Associates» Dean, a 50 - year veteran of the research effort, believes there is a role for private companies in fusion research.

Rather than go stale, A&W has in recent years targeted millennial consumers instead of its traditional Baby Boomer crowd, undertaken an ambitious urban expansion and noisily advertised its efforts to improve food quality.

Whether this is an extremely busy time for your business, or not, there are many efforts you can make to drum up some sales before the end of the year.

The move to preemptively brand «property scalpers» a problem, however, smacks of an effort to create a villain that the government can then vanquish — a useful tactic for a government headed by a leader with a record - low approval rating facing an election next year.

Efforts to squash review aggregators come from the same playbook that retailers used a few years ago when trying to eliminate «showrooming,» the practice of using a smartphone to comparison shop while inside a brick - and - mortar store.

Though his effort may wane on defense at times, and he preserves energy for a late postseason run — he's now played into June seven years in a row — part of it is that no player in the NBA carries as much responsibility as James.

Part of the reason is that it can take years to access prison rehabilitation programs if you have a longer sentence because people with shorter sentences get priority; despite recent national efforts to make opioid antidotes and addiction treatments more widely accessible, many prisons still don't have these programs in place, leaving addicts who make it out of prison far more susceptible to relapse.

Biogen is marching on in its own effort, and while updated results are expected in the second half of this year, initial study results haven't been promising.

In recent years, however, Noise Solutions has adopted a much more targeted and directed approach to growth, a strategy that depends on a lot of advance work and then a direct sales effort.

Recently released preliminary data from the 2012 Survey of Business Owners — the Census Bureau's effort to take stock of American companies every five years — show that the fraction of businesses owned by women improved substantially over the past five years.

The government expects the anti-smoke move will increase federal tax revenues by $ 685 million in 2014 - 15 — a major piece of the puzzle in Tory efforts to balance the books over the next two years.

«This is a year of really being an influence and a change maker in an amazing city that's really at the forefront of the revitalization efforts in our entire country,» says Greene Groves concluding her pitch for the program, ending with a paraphrase of the Michigan governor's pitch for Motor City: «Yeah, you can go to another city, but if you want to make a difference, come to Detroit.»

Last year, the United Nations» heritage body expressed concern about the state of the Great Barrier Reef and urged Australia to boost its conservation efforts.

The effort grew out of our meeting at the Vatican in 2016 and a follow - up in New York last September, and we will be gathering again in San Francisco June 25 - 26 this year.

While it will take months, possibly even years, of tweaking and testing before you have a fully optimized campaign, you'll find the effort worth it.

Burns has over 10 years of experience leading marketing efforts for startups, not - for - profits and global enterprises.

Even last year, despite all the efforts by Beijing to rein in its stimulus efforts, investment in fixed assets was the fastest - growing segment of the economy.

The buddy program, available from October through March, is part of Icelandair's efforts to make summer - heavy Icelandic tourism a year - round affair.

After years of economic crisis, Centeno wants to make it clear to European citizens that the efforts they made were worth it and now it's time «to reap the benefits.»

Hershey (HSY) cut its full - year revenue forecast again earlier this summer, and also announced a round of layoffs, as sales continue to shrink in the increasingly health - conscious U.S. and the company's efforts to boost sales in China have faltered amid that country's sluggish economic growth.

«In accordance with this commitment, we have intensified our efforts in recent years to address and prevent sexual misconduct on our campus through the creation and expansion of policies and programs and the active engagement of the university community.»

What makes it especially unexpected is that for years, many of Microsoft's consumer - focused efforts have been lacklustre at best.

OPEC was meeting with rival U.S. shale producers on the sidelines of the annual CERAWeek energy conference for a second year in a row, in an effort to learn what the industry can do to avoid the type of painful downturn faced in 2015.

Jassy earned positive reviews early on for leading Amazon's music sales efforts, and in 2002 he was chosen as one of Jeff Bezos's «technical assistants» — staffers who train for senior executive roles by shadowing Amazon's CEO for a year or longer.

They put a lot of effort into buying ingredients from suppliers who treat their workers well and look after the environment, using sustainable packaging, and donating 10 % of their profits to charity each year.

On the first workday of the year, months away from the close of the quarter, you have a chance to think about and discuss how your company's efforts transcend money or shareholder value.

David Tyerman of Canaccord Genuity said the efforts could save between $ 85 million and $ 170 million a year in wages and help to mitigate the liquidity strain the company faces as it prepares to build inventories next year.

Some of these include using artificial intelligence tools to automatically identify propaganda efforts similar to those allegedly carried out by Russia - linked groups in upcoming world elections, and boosting its security and content review team to 20,000 by the end of the year.

And indeed, other tech giants are interested; Amazon, for one, launched Amazon Home Services earlier in the year, in an effort to get a piece of this potentially lucrative market.