Sentences with phrase «years of trying unsuccessfully»

After years of trying unsuccessfully to get utilities to open their doors to the opportunities of installing such small distributed power systems themselves as an option for their clients where the utility still collects the green credits and network management benefits it looks like they are going to miss the boat altogether.

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Not exact matches

When NYSE Euornext and the German stock exchange operator Deutsche Borsche tried (unsuccessfully) to merge earlier this year, NASDAQ and ICE hatched a plan to swoop in, purchase, and split up NYSE Euronext, with ICE taking the Liffe and NASDAQ taking the rest of the company.

Clearly, the last of these four is the optimal response, but Beijing has been trying unsuccessfully to do this for nearly ten years, and neither the arithmetic nor the historical precedents give observers much hope that this can be done to any serious extent without a radical transformation of the country's development model.

It's too early to know which players, such as fourth - year junior quarterback Matt Leinart of USC, might declare early for the draft, but here are the top five prospects who are now eligible, four seniors plus former USC wideout Mike Williams, who unsuccessfully tried to enter the 2004 draft after his sophomore season.

This is when the Sounders signed Nicolas Lodeiro last year — after unsuccessfully trying to sign him earlier — and when they signed the quartet of Erik Friberg, Andreas Ivanschitz, Nelson Valdez and Roman Torres two years ago.

Remember that «value of a dollar» lesson you've unsuccessfully being trying to teach your teen for years?

(Bragman tried unsuccessfully to change the rules so the speaker serves at the pleasure of the body, but since that failed, he still has two - year terms).

The governor, over the past few days, has said lawmakers have not agreed to greater disclosure of outside incomes and campaign finance reform — items that Cuomo has tried, unsuccessfully, to get approved for at least two years.

The governor tried unsuccessfully late last year to tie many of these reform ideas to a legislative pay increase that many lawmakers — especially the downstaters — desperately wanted after going since January 1999 without a boost in their base salary of $ 79,500.

The governor, over the past few days, have said lawmakers have not agreed to greater disclosure of outside incomes and campaign finance reform, items that Cuomo has tried, unsuccessfully, to get approved for at least 2 years.

Cuomo's nuclear gambit comes as he has tried, so far unsuccessfully, to convince Entergy Corp., owners of the money - losing James A. FitzPatrick nuclear plant near Oswego, to shutter the 40 - year - old facility by January.

Facing a state budget negotiation with his agenda at the mercy of his rival - pal Governor Andrew Cuomo and the Senate Republicans who he unsuccessfully tried to unseat last year, de Blasio needed some help.

On a symbolic level, a Bush candidacy would provide a major boost for Senate Republican strategists who spent much of the last four years trying unsuccessfully to recruit well known politicians into Senate races.

Instead, she said community groups told her they have unsuccessfully tried for years to inform Cuomo of the Buffalo neighborhood needs that also deserve state investments.

In 1933, Einstein accepted a professorship at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, N.J., where for years he tried (unsuccessfully) to unify the laws of physics.

Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli made headlines in 2010 for investigating University of Virginia climate scientist Michael Mann, and again this year for trying unsuccessfully to block the Environmental Protection Agency from regulating greenhouse gases.

The next year Kathrine Switzer entered the race under the name K. V. Switzer, and photos of the race organizers trying (unsuccessfully) to remove her forcefully mid-race made international headlines.

The study found that, of those who reported experiencing infertility (defined as unsuccessfully trying to become pregnant for a year or longer), 42.7 % of women and 46.8 % of men did not seek medical help for the problem.

They tried unsuccessfully to introduce a male southern white rhino to the female northern whites in an effort to at least conserve some of the northern white's genes, and last year listed Sudan on Tinder as the «most eligible bachelor» to raise funds rhino IVF and rehabilitation.

After nearly a year of unsuccessfully trying...

Seems crazy but after years of being «overweight» since having a baby and trying various diets unsuccessfully, I finally understood that this weight loss thing isnt about the weight at all, but long - term health.

For those that have stumbled unsuccessfully through the past year hoping to meet someone in a bar, through a friend or at work, the contemplation of a new year brings new resolve to try different methods.

It's a particularly shocking turn of events for Molly, who had unsuccessfully tried to conceive for years with her current roboticist husband, John (Goran Visnjic), and still mourns the death of her first son, Marcus.

McConaughey looked back fondly on years of trying to kiss Bullock «successfully and unsuccessfully»

James Gray's The Lost City of Z is «so beautiful» and a labor of love (Jones reminded me that the director tried to make it unsuccessfully with Brad Pitt for years).

In the end, the movie was acquired this spring by Focus Features — a division of the company that, notably, tried unsuccessfully to make it for seven years.

Understandably so, because Alice and Noah's life is a sham — after seven years of marriage they own a window shade store in Vero Beach, Fla., that is going out of business and they've been trying unsuccessfully to have a child, a problem compounded by the fact that they rarely have sex.

«Kindergarten kids learning in front of a monitor — that's just wrong,» said Maryelen Calderwood, an elected school committee member in Greenfield, Mass., who unsuccessfully tried to stop K12 from contracting with her community to create New England's first virtual public school last year.

Richard Nixon unsuccessfully tried to pass a version of Friedman's plan a few years later, and his Democratic opponent in the 1972 presidential election, George McGovern, also suggested a guaranteed annual income.

Which, for the average investor, are ridiculously long odds to be agonising over... so in reality, we waste years & decades sabotaging our returns, fighting a rising tide as we try (fearfully & unsuccessfully) to duck & weave in / out of the market.

Deerfield Beach Mayor Jean Robb, who tried unsuccessfully last year to repeal her city's ban on the sale of mass - bred cats and dogs, is not a fan.

After several years of unsuccessfully trying to solve the Museum's monetary problems, and faced with the prospect of bankruptcy and closure, the Trustees, in 1974, reached an agreement with Norton Simon.

[2] He attended the Stevens Institute of Technology for a year, and tried unsuccessfully to become an architect.

Wind turbines had been tried unsuccessfully some years ago, but until the installation of the current one, the island had been reliant on diesel - generated power.

Last year the Saudi Binladin Group tried, unsuccessfully, to secure land in Indonesia's island of Papua where it wanted to invest $ 4.3 billion in rice cultivation.

I tried (unsuccessfully, mostly because of my own ignorance) to come up with one for a neutrino mass measurement about 30 years ago.

Charles J noted that in broad terms the matters relied on by the claimant to establish the defence of necessity to the trespass in question are that he had unsuccessfully been trying for two years to get the council's planning department to act.

They turn to IVF after they have already unsuccessfully attempted to conceive through intercourse for over a year and often after they have already tried other less invasive methods of assisted procreation, such as artificial insemination.

In its appeal the company is now arguing it's acting as an agent on the driver's behalf — likening its operation to that of a traditional minicab operator (rather than trying to claim it's just a tech platform that connects self - employed drivers with people wanting a ride, as it unsuccessfully argued last year).