Sentences with phrase «years several attempts»

During the next three or so years several attempts were made to obtain a mortgage but all efforts failed.

In the past few years several attempts have been made to assess changes in the Earth's planetary albedo, and claims of global dimming and more recently brightening have been debated in journal articles and blogs alike.

Not exact matches

DACA recipients» fears are not unfounded — the same fear surfaced several years ago after the Obama administration in 2014 attempted to expand DACA and implement a program known as Deferred Action for Parents of Americans and Lawful Permanent Residents, which sought to shield from deportation the parents of American citizens or lawful permanent residents.

As it turns out, it's not just the Hulk Hogan case: Thiel admitted in his interview with the Times that he decided several years ago to secretly fund multiple cases in an attempt to cripple the company, and that there is at least one other case before the courts that he's involved in.

Most governments of developed countries have spent the last several years attempting at all costs to keep their economies out of recession, and in doing so appear to have taken their eye of inflation.

However, in the years since the global financial crisis the idea gained prominence, and several central banks decided to take the plunge after 2014 in an attempt to boost weak economic growth by creating inflation.

Over the past several years, their government raised the value - added tax and imposed numerous new fees in desperate attempts to address serious fiscal shortfalls that have brought the country to the brink of ruin.

But despite their best attempts to reconcile their discoveries with the Bible, their findings kept pointing in the other direction: namely, the earth was several billion years old, not 6,000.

Soon after his death Islam spread / invaded N. Africa and Spain... 350 years before the launch of the first Christian Crusade... and made several attempts at the Balkans over roughly a thousand years....

I myself have read the bible cover to cover several times in my life and attempted to cross reference nearly every line in the 30 years I spent as a Christian with a decade as a pastor.

Although the Imam recovered from several unsuccessful attempts to poison him, the poison was finally effective and Imam Hasan died in the year 40 (AD.

The thought of certain dinosaurs running into the wind in an attempt to take off and, after several million years, succeeding like the Wright brothers in flying a few yards, is a fantasy that sufficiently points up the absurdity of evolution.

Several years ago I got a hankering to attempt the Feast of the Seven Fishes for our Christmas Eve dinner.

I discovered this lovely blog a few years ago, and since then I've had to replace several laptops, each after attempting to eat my monitor.

The teenager only recently signed a new four - and - a-half year contract to keep him at the Emirates until 2019 after fears he could leave in the summer after knocking back several attempts to negotiate an extension.

Or, we could hold on to him, continue to tread water for several years and attempt to trade him when he has much less value and his contract can't be moved; also known as the Bergevin Plan.

Score, the American League Rookie of the Year in»55 and a 20 - game winner in» 56, recovered from his injuries and attempted several comebacks, but he won only 17 more games over the next five seasons and retired.

I think people probably admire the way Dimitroff and Quinn have worked to build the defense through the draft over the last several years, but the truth is a lot of that building process has been characterized as an attempt to mimic the Seahawks who, for a few years, became a model defense (if not a model franchise).

With the help of Challenge Success, JLS Principal Sharon Ofek several years ago created a «Shadow Day,» during which teachers would go through a full school day shadowing a student and then attempt to do the student's homework afterward.

For several years, Limestone and Gall have been attempting to interest the Park District in developing the quarry land.

An attempt to do so has been an ongoing project for several years now.

«We've been... making an attempt to get Whole Foods out here for several years because of their reputation and because a lot of citizens have emailed or called about it,» said Mayor Dan McLaughlin.

For several years, she maintained a steady course of attempts.

But when Walker learned last year of a federal investigation into potential corruption in Nassau County government, including circumstances surrounding the payment, he spoke to the contractor several times «in an attempt to convince the contractor to conceal the existence of the $ 5,000 payment from the grand jury,» according to authorities.

In what appeared to be an attempt to force the Senate's hand, the Assembly on Monday included a two - year mayoral control extension as part of an omnibus bill that also extended several sales and other taxes for local governments around the state.

Maybe this amounts to the chipping away that forms the Right's alternative strategy, i.e. to lay the basis for a further election attempt after several more years of frustration in political advance.

I am disappointed and angry that anonymous accusations from several years ago are once again being made public in this manner in a clear attempt to damage my reputation.

Cuomo has already begun a piecemeal attempt to increase the minimum wage through executive actions to phase in an increase for state workers and fast food workers to $ 15 an hour over the next several years.

Nassau Community College trustees last night selected the college's next president, fast - tracking a candidate through the process in a day after several failed attempts to find a permanent leader for the school over the last four years.

Conversely though there have been several attempts by governments over the years to counter perceived bias by appointing their own supporters.

City Councilwoman Gale Brewer has garnered $ 50,000 in public funding to install several BigBelly Solar cans this year in Verdi Park at the entrance to the 72nd Street subway in an attempt to combat the park's rat problem.

The suspect is said to have hit his 52 - year - old mother, Faustina Agyeiwaa several times in the head with a pestle until she fell down, and thereafter he followed up with naked flames in attempts to burn...

Like several other state legislators, Rodriguez is making a run this year for City Council, attempting to leave behind the many commutes to Albany and to boost his base salary by nearly 100 %, from the $ 79,500 of a state legislator to the $ 148,000 of a City Council member.

He said there had been several attempts over thousands of years to «recreate the dream of the Roman Empire», and added: «Very often that's been done by force.

Four years before the Russians started punching their way into the Kola crust, the United States had given up on its own deep - drilling program: Project Mohole, an attempt to bore several miles through the Pacific seafloor and retrieve a sample of the underlying mantle.

SpaceX has also been testing a reusable booster for its current Falcon 9 rocket, and has made several unsuccessful attempts to land the booster stage on a drone ship this year.

The cosmic censorship hypothesis has never been proven, and over the years there have been several attempts to show that naked singularities really can exist.

Next came several years of peripatetic attempts to gain the sort of experience, especially in finance and law, that she felt she needed to continue to advance in the industry.

For several years, biologists have attempted to provide evidence that natural selection has acted on evolvability.

Over the past few years, Congress has grown increasingly unhappy about the spiralling costs of the space station programme and its lack of progress, and there have been several attempts to kill it off.

Roelcke encountered resistance several years ago, when he attempted to document that Ernst Rüdin, the Nazi - era director of KWG's Institute for Psychiatry in Munich, and the University of Heidelberg in Germany were involved in research on child euthanasia victims.

Eriksson's research focuses mainly on microscopic fossils and attempts, among other things, to reconstruct ecosystems that are several hundred million years old.

For the last two years, the star's bizarre behavior has confounded astronomers, who have invoked several ideas — a hypothesis involving a gigantic «alien megastructure» being proffered only half in jest — in their attempt at an explanation.

Attempts to pass similar legislation have failed over the past several years.

«After several years of attempts to detect fluorescent emission from dark galaxies, our results demonstrate the potential of our method to discover and study these fascinating and previously invisible objects,» says Sebastiano Cantalupo (University of California, Santa Cruz), lead author of the study.

Several years ago, I watched a friend of mine attempt to go gluten free.

In fact, in recent years, several reviews have looked at the available research about flossing and attempted to determine if there was a benefit or not:

Catherine Kahr has struggled for decades with major depression, surviving multiple suicide attempts and several hospitalizations, including a two - year stay at an infamous state institution for the mentally ill.

After many years and several failed attempts to treat her illness through the best Western medical doctors across the Bay Area, Christina stumbled upon a practitioner of traditional Chinese...

It may be problematic to attempt to strictly adhere to Indian rules, when you consider that these rules or guidelines are several thousand years old, and the foods that Indians ate may not be available to us.