Sentences with phrase «year efforts have made»

Their four - year efforts have made very significant progress in breeding for durable resistance against blast in rice varieties that are adapted for Africa, have set the stage for continental surveillance of the disease, and developed a robust collection of resources for outreach and awareness creation.

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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.

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.

Over the past few years, the Obama administration has made an effort to address the issue by proposing to raise the federal minimum to $ 10.10 an hour.

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.

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

«There have been many efforts over the years to make individuals better healthcare consumers, but it's hard to change behaviors.

Ford said it would refocus its car making efforts on «the best - selling Mustang and the all - new Focus Active crossover coming out next year,» the company said.

Kim Jong Un himself used his annual televised New Year's address to wish for the games» success and announce the North's plan to participate, prompting officials from both Koreas to make a major effort so that Pyongyang could send more than 500 people, including 22 athletes and 21 reporters (none of whose work has been seen).

Walmsley has been in place for around a year, but has already replaced nearly half of GSK's top executive team and has made sweeping changes in its R&D team, while shutting down many of its clinical drug trials in an effort to narrow the company's portfolio.

The company denied the accusations at the time, and over the past year Laurence Sellyn, Gildan's chief financial officer, has made concerted efforts to get on the right side of the debate.

Virgin America has just turned six years old, and over that time we've put a lot of thought and effort into making flights enjoyable, while almost all of our competitors have focused solely on their bottom line.

Dark Matter comes just a couple of weeks after the anti-secrecy organization released a trove of documents describing how the CIA over the last several years has targeted electronics made by a slew of prominent tech companies to further its espionage efforts.

Why it's hot: KFC has made a comeback over the past two years with the return of Colonel Sanders in marketing, and it launched an effort to improve its food quality.

The company has made smaller tweaks over the last year to combat clickbait, but Facebook's VP of product management Adam Mosseri tells Business Insider that this is the most dramatic change that it has launched since its initial efforts in 2014.

After some years of Cuban hostility following the Soviet Union's collapse and Russia's withdrawal of the vast subsidies it had provided for decades, the Kremlin has made new efforts to solidify the two countries» strategic bond.

«Over the past year, for example, you've seen us make progress and accelerate our efforts in some areas, while repositioning or taking a pause in others.»

For many years it has been predicted that retail brokerage houses would engage in a «race to zero» on commissions, choosing instead to make money on deposits, margin accounts, and fund fees in an effort to gain more customers.

The group points out that the good times could easily come to an end if world governments don't make efforts to balance monetary and fiscal policies, something I've been urging for years now.

Chief executive Martin Mercer told The Australian Financial Review the company had grown so much in the last few years it was «bursting at the seams» and had made the decision this year to invest in the rebranding efforts and move into bigger offices in Melbourne and Sydney to help fuel future growth.

This is a predicament seven years in the making, since Republicans started swearing to repeal Obamacare as soon as they took control of the government, and it is one that the GOP has courted from the start of this year's repeal effort.

Now, as Wall Street executives come under pressure from shareholders for their mounting subprime - related losses, Mr. Steel's mix of a Goldman pedigree and years in the thick of the government's effort to grapple with the housing crisis has made him a short - list regular on investment bank board committees looking for new leadership.

«Over the past year we have made fundamental changes to transform Wells Fargo as part of our effort to rebuild trust and build a better bank,» CEO Tim Sloan said in a statement.

SBP provides resilience training in ten communities per year and engages in recovery efforts across the country to make vulnerable residents resilient to potential disaster and rebuild for those who have survived disaster.

The information sessions are the most extensive in - person recruitment efforts that Tesla has made since it acquired SolarCity in November 2016, although the company has had more than two dozen different jobs posted online for more than a year.

The Chronicle of Philanthropy Charities Unveil Bold Year - End Appeals in Storm's Big Shadow Schwab Charitable has moved quickly to encourage and assist donors in making gifts to benefit relief organizations working on recovery efforts after the recent superstorm.

As our study has consistently shown over the past eight years, there is no long - term correlation between the amount of money a company spends on its innovation efforts and its overall financial performance; instead, what matters is how companies use that money and other resources, as well as the quality of their talent, processes, and decision making.

Academics spend considerable effort attempting to explain these market tendencies, yet the past two years will only make their job more difficult: in both years the September quarters have been quite rewarding to investors.

At least 29 states have made efforts in recent years to expand retirement savings program coverage for private sector workers, according to a new Government Accountability Office (GAO) report.

Among the materials they sought were communications between the two men about efforts to tamp down negative publicity about Trump during the campaign and details about a payment Cohen made to an adult - film star who alleged she had a sexual relationship with Trump years earlier.

The unit, the chief investment office (CIO), has been the biggest buyer of European mortgage - backed bonds and other complex debt securities such as collateralized loan obligations in all markets for more than three years... The unit made a deliberate move out of safer assets such as US Treasuries in 2009 in an effort to increase returns and diversify investments.»

It takes a lot of education and effort to make people understand how Bitcoin and Blockchain works so we are really glad to have been able to reach this point in only a couple of years.

Over the last few years, Google has made a concerted effort to develop business intelligence and data analysis tools right in the AdWords user interface (UI).

Building an internal mapping system is part of the slew of investments Uber has been making over the past year and a half, which include the acquisition of the mapping startup deCarta and part of the image assets of Microsoft's Bing to boost navigation efforts.

One more try in the effort to have complete disclosure on this topic: The Boy Scouts of America were recently made to pay $ 18.3 million to a former scout who was abused by a troop leader years ago.

«We have made great progress in our efforts to disrupt, dismantle and defeat the larger al Qaeda organization in recent years,» she said.

I haven't even made the effort to attend Mass twice a year like «Christmas and Easter Catholics.»

But any efforts I have made to this end are but little compared to the unfailing persistence and skill with which, in a remarkable variety of ways, she has furthered my aims, and enabled me to be actually what my first thirty years made possible.

I am embarrassed to think about my initial contemporary music efforts; it took our church years to become reasonably good at it, but by then the first impression had been made.

The past few years, I have made the effort to travel and see my dad, keep in more regular contact.

With the larger economic problems the nation faces in funding the Depression - era program, Astrue has made little headway, particularly since he took office after the collapse of President Bush's efforts to reform the system, and especially now that his six - year appointment has carried him, a Republican legacy, into a Democratic administration.

Gay «No» campaigners Keith Mills and Paddy Manning pointed out that such was perfectly possible without undermining family structures completely since extensive Civil Partnership legislation was already in place, and they did make a difference, but the softening up of the electorate by years of sob - stories would have taken far more time and effort to overcome.

Like the way «god» gave the world «salvation» only tens of thousand of years LATE, we are to believe that «god» also gave us «medicine,» but only after we had suffered for TENS OF THOUSANDS of years AND only after we figured everything out ON OUR OWN??? That is one sadistic «god» to put us through all that deception... making us merely think it was solely by our own efforts that we could even... oh say, IDENTIFY things like heart disease and cancer and have even a chance to combat them.

Father Driscoll discussed the shocking cost of shipping from Florida, and expounded on coconut palms, and fishtail palms, and tiger palms, and many other species of palms, and noted that as far as he could tell from his inquiries, Our Blessed Lord rode His donkey over the fronds of date palms, which is why our parish makes a strenuous effort every year to obtain date palms, for historical accuracy, but inasmuch as this year the cost of date palm fronds was prohibitively high, he was sure that the ladies would agree with him that the correct thing to do was to use local willow wands instead, and thus save money that could be directed to the poor and unfortunate of the parish.

The figure for the Soviet Union is open to question because it has not been possible in recent years to get accurate information concerning the fate of Islam under Communism and it is known that efforts have been made to curtail Islam, partly for ideological reasons and partly to break the ties of the Muslims with the Turkish and Iranian areas.

In another book of that same period we read: «The rage for equality has so blinded the last hundred years that every effort has been made to obliterate the divergence in role, in conduct, and in dress.

Like any good food blogger, I've been making efforts to improve my food photography over the years.

I have been following you for about a year and a half and I just want to say thanks for all the effort you put in to make our cooking experiences so awesome!

Plus, I've been making a conscious effort to cook and eat more healthily this year.

They make pretty gifts and they would be the perfect chance to make up for the time we lost years ago in our baking effort.