Sentences with phrase «years of effort by»

The years of effort by NAR and others pushing for liability reform are as close as they've ever been to paying off.

The good news is that the years of effort by NAR and others pushing for liability reform are as close as they've ever been to paying off.

Years of effort by polite Canadians, not to mention the stress of being constantly alert during those riveting on - line courses, and what do we have to show for it?

Today a new set of fundamental holdings of land surface air temperature records stretching back deep into the 19th Century has been released as a result of several years of effort by a multinational group of scientists.

The development of next - generation NSX resulted in a clean - sheet design, which involved nearly three years of effort by a global design and engineering team led by engineers at the company's development center in Raymond, Ohio.

Despite years of effort by governments, there has been little or no improvement in the quality of education provided in government schools.

The study culminates many years of effort by an international team of scientists who have discovered a large number of the satellite galaxies, developed new techniques to measure their distances, and have used the Keck Observatory with colleagues to measure their radial velocities, or Doppler shifts (the speed of the galaxy relative to the Sun).

Training computers to run the observatory all night, without human oversight, took years of effort by the University of California Observatories staff and graduate students on the discovery team.

This is done, says Dr Lo, by harvesting the wisdom of the masses — accumulated through years of effort by thousands of software developers — hidden in these passive, distributed and diversified data sources.

This project builds on three years of effort by Buffalo Niagara Riverkeeper for Phase I of a Niagara River Watershed Management Plan and is a continuation of a community - based watershed planning effort to improve and protect all of Western New York's water resources.

ALBANY — As a result of several years of efforts by Agudath Israel of America and the unwavering support of New York State Assemblyman Dov Hikind, it appears that rabbinical college students in New York State will, for the first time ever, be eligible to receive Tuition Assistance Program (TAP) grants.

Our Lady of Loreto church has been demolished, after years of efforts by preservationists to save it.

This unprecedented feat culminates years of efforts by scientists around the world to harness this promising material.

The spit had been a quarry and gravel - loading pier and, after years of efforts by local citizens, land - preservation groups and state government, now is simply a place to walk a dog and enjoy thickening, albeit viny, woods and extraordinary views of the Hudson Highlands.

But like the last bridesmaid to get engaged, despite years of efforts by Avison Young to ensure the building's former iteration was widely courted, poked and prodded, there's still no ring on the finger — or anchor tenant inked on a dotted line.

Not exact matches

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.

«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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

DiCeglie said that, when the effort for 2016 first started in January of the previous year, the GOP was down by roughly 6,000 voter registrations in comparison with the Democrats.

Abney said the company's brick - and - mortar and e-commerce retail customers are holding «Black Friday» sales earlier than normal this year and that UPS believes it is part of an effort by retailers to find ways to smooth out the pre-Christmas online ordering bulge.

He has implemented a massive stimulus policy by cutting the central bank's benchmark interest rate to negative, keeping the 10 - year Japanese government bond yield near 0 percent in an effort to control the yield curve and stepping up the Bank of Japan's asset purchases.

«Fiscal 2018 was a record year for Xilinx with revenues of $ 2.5 billion as we realized 8 % annual growth driven by broad - based strength across multiple markets, reflecting our concerted efforts to accelerate top line growth,» said Victor Peng, President and Chief Executive Officer.

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson was offered $ 60 million by Congress from Defense Department funds last year to fight Russian election interference efforts — but after Tillerson waited for seven months trying to decide whether he wanted to spend it or not, the offer was withdrawn, and none of the money was used, according to The New York Times.

Instead of viewing regulations like those mandated by OSHA as a nuisance (NAM and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce for years fought against implementation of the original OSHA legislation and continue to lobby against efforts to expand the legislation), Keller came to see them as a blueprint for improvement.

The Chinese behemoth has been thinking about physical retail for years, part of an effort to attract customers to its e-commerce platforms by helping to digitize old - fashioned merchants.

Your first stop should be The National Climate Assessment, an interagency effort by the U.S. federal government, puts out a report every few years, assessing the likelihood of floods, fires, heat waves, hurricanes, and other climate - based events.

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.

The effort paid off: Blackmore got the position and in 2014, he was named Brand Ambassador Of The Year by The International Whisky Competition.

By 2013, they had fallen to $ 1.46 billion, despite the company's efforts to steady the business in the last couple of years through steps such as improving reps» cut of the action, and streamlining its product assortment to focus on lower - priced products.

The steady leakage of plastic packaging into the oceans — at the rate of one garbage truck full of plastic per minute — has been aided by the lack of a unified global effort to reuse the plastic produced every year.

«Aside from that, the number of districts controlled or influenced by the Afghan government had been one of the last remaining publicly available indicators for members of Congress — many of whose staff do not have access to the classified annexes to SIGAR reports — and for the American public of how the 16 - year - long US effort to secure Afghanistan is faring,» he added.

As part of its ramp - up efforts, Nissan said last year that ProPILOT will allow cars to automatically change lanes by 2018.

This year's Physics Nobel Prize goes to Rainer Weiss, Kip Thorne, and Barry Barish for their efforts that helped lead to the first measurement of gravitational waves in 2015 by the LIGO team.

Over the years, the SIGAR auditing effort has revealed many dubious practices by the US, including instances of contractor fraud.

«The OIG's focus on me and this report became a part of an unprecedented effort by the Administration, driven by the President himself, to remove me from my position, destroy my reputation, and possibly strip me of a pension that I worked 21 years to earn,» McCabe said.

«The number of districts controlled or influenced by the Afghan government had been one of the last remaining publicly available indicators for members of Congress — many of whose staff do not have access to the classified annexes to SIGAR reports — and for the American public of how the 16 - year - long US effort to secure Afghanistan is faring,» he added.

Moreover, supplemented by McDonald's rapidly kicked up interest and investment in its digital efforts over the last year in mobile ordering, delivery and payments, the brand is not only offering customers better quality goods to buy — but a lot of better ways to buy them more easily.

The news is an encouraging milestone in an ongoing effort by JPMorgan Chase, the country's biggest bank, to steer more of its corporate philanthropy toward revitalizing inner cities — particularly in Detroit, where the Entrepreneurs of Color Fund is part of a $ 150 million, five - year commitment by the bank.

The latest CBO report on average federal taxes by income group was released in June 2016 and includes data for 1979 - 2013 on before - and after - tax income and taxes paid for each quintile, as well as for the top 1, 5, and 10 percent of households., [20][21] Because of the effort involved in preparing these analyses, CBO's annual updates tend to lag about two years behind the publication of the necessary SOI data.

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The efforts were spearheaded last year by Katherine Lugar, chief executive of the American Hotel and Lodging Association.

The net impact of the disagreements disrupts Baghdad's efforts to bring new investments to the oil and gas sector in areas affected by three years of domestic strife.

In an effort to build its relevance to the world outside traditional «Davos man» — the slightly scornful phrase used by political scientist Samuel Huntington to describe attendees, this year's World Economic Forum meeting in Switzerland is pushing to be a little more touchy - feely, for want of a better word.

By measuring out the sentiment of consumers» attitudes toward Amazon Prime Day, researchers were able to learn that 34 percent of people were not aware of the event last year, and 12 percent cited personalized promotional efforts as the key to luring them in.