Sentences with phrase «after decades of effort»

After decades of effort, Mexico curbed deforestation in the butterflies» winter habitat in the oyamel fir and pine forests of Michoacán and Mexico states.

After decades of effort, physicists have probed the inner working of atoms of antihydrogen — the antimatter version of hydrogen — by measuring for the first time a particular wavelength of light that they absorb.

After decades of effort, physicists have probed the inner workings of atoms of antihydrogen — the antimatter version of hydrogen — by measuring for the first time a particular wavelength of light that they absorb.

You might be tired of your current career after decades of effort, wanting to part ways before you burn out entirely, or you might be a youngster looking to get out of the workforce as early as possible.

A new study by researchers at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York suggests that bondholders still don't believe the government would ever let the firms collapse into bankruptcy — after a decade of efforts by regulators to convince them otherwise.

After a decade of efforts to improve public schools incrementally, the initiative for education reform has shifted to outsiders who propose radical measures.

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After some early, desultory efforts, Martin found his footing and reeled out a handful of budgets built around themes such as deficit fighting, education, innovation and tax reduction that set the country on sound fiscal footing and gave it political direction and policy focus for the better part of a decade.

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.

President Donald Trump vowed to do a «big number on» the banking law enacted after the financial crisis a decade ago, but the law's co-author and namesake says he's confident that the essence of Dodd - Frank will survive Republican efforts to dismantle it.

The pro-migration Senators» complaints about border agents, deportations, and detention beds come as blue - collar wages are beginning to rise after decades of minimal growth, and as Trump's deputies step up their efforts to deter migration by illegal immigrants and asylum - seekers.

After more than two decades of those efforts, not a lot of new factors make the cut, but research is an ongoing commitment here.

Year after year, decade after decade, we witness the spectacle of Detroit's efforts to sell ever - increasing numbers of cars designed for quick obsolescence, though it has been clear for some time now that considerations of both space and air quality dictate that we move toward some alternative transportation system.

The crude video, linked to Coptic activists in the United States, prompted the 57 - member Organization of Islamic Cooperation to revive its demand for a UN ban on the defamation of religion (after dropping its decade - long effort last year).

On the contrary, during the decade after the World War heroic efforts were made to maintain intercourse by organizational devices of one kind and another.

In the most anticipated speech of his week - long trip to Burma and Bangladesh, Francis expressed support for Ms Suu Kyi's efforts to bring about reconciliation among different groups after decades of military dictatorship, and insisted that religious differences in must never be a cause for division or distrust.

Ziegler writes: «[F] or the better part of a decade after the Court's decision, the vast majority of lawyers, law professors, and grassroots activists in the antiabortion movement opposed efforts to strip the Court of its authority or to return the abortion question to democratic politics....

I never intended to challenge the church when my wife and I pursued in vitro fertilization in an effort to expand our family after a decade of unsuccessful infertility treatments.

OLYMPIA FIELDS — After coveting the property for more than two decades, the Olympia Fields Park District has added 25 acres of forest and wetland to its parks inventory, thanks to the efforts of a non-profit conservation group and a $ 157,500 state grant.

After decades of failed efforts to improve the lives of poor students, Mr Tough has written a fine and provocative book about the kind of work that seems to be making a difference.

Only days after the people of Colombia voted to reject a historic peace deal he spent years negotiating, the Colombian president, Juan Manuel Santos, received the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to end the country's decades - long war with the FARC guerrilla movement.

As New York debates whether to join these cities after decades of stalled efforts, their experiences could provide a road map.

It was Mr. Cuomo, a Democrat facing re-election in November, who almost single - handedly revived congestion pricing last summer after decades of failed efforts.

The Tappan Zee replacement project is frequently touted by Cuomo as one of his signature achievements after it was stalled for decades and he frequently refers to movement on the project as a bipartisan effort.

In 2014 - 2015, a decade after the disaster, the researchers studied the long - term outcomes of rebuilding efforts in the city and how residents there were affected.

After almost a decade of effort, crystallographers have achieved a major goal in AIDS research: They have determined the detailed structure of the protein HIV uses to infect immune cells called T lymphocytes.

Biomedical research productivity perhaps has fallen because after receiving a large infusion of federal funding in the past decade it may take time for new or expanded research efforts to become efficient.

But after two decades, millions of dollars of public and private funding, and the best efforts of cancer researchers, himself included, Duesberg says that no combination of genes has ever produced cancer in tissue cultures.

After 2 decades of monumental effort, including two reports appearing online this week in Science (www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/1134742 and www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/1133411), physicists still can not explain high - temperature superconductivity.

Most of the important discoveries in mathematics take place after decades or centuries of effort.

Now, after years of efforts to reintroduce the frogs to the Santa Monica Mountains outside of Los Angeles, the National Parks Service announced the discovery of nine clusters of red - legged frog eggs in the region's streams — the first evidence in decades that the species is sustaining a population in the area.

Hurricane Katrina caused mass devastation and loss of life because recommendations to bolster the levees shielding New Orleans and other protective measures were neglected for decades despite urgent expert warnings, and because the federal emergency relief effort failed completely after the storm.

The discovery is part of a trend among local and foreign scientists to focus again on Afghanistan after decades of civil war and invasions there, says Stephen Peters, lead researcher on a U.S. Geological Survey effort to assess the mineral resources in the central Asian country.

«The fact that such efforts continued to predict partisan allegiances decades later demonstrates how the impact of a social movement can endure long after the movement itself has declined, as well as providing a new explanation of political polarization in the U.S.»

After a decade of tepid efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, Canada formally withdrew from its Kyoto pledges in December.

E-cigarettes are not subject to the same regulations as traditional cigarettes, potentially renormalizing the act of smoking after decades of public health efforts to shift public norms around smoking.

Unfortunately, a decade after the popularization of GWAS and in spite of much effort, we have fallen short of the goal of explaining most of the heritability for complex traits in terms of allelic effects.

This effort remains a critical mission of Hubble decades after Lyman Spitzer Jr. proposed searching the space between galaxies for gas.

After painting large - scale, acrylic pieces for a couple of decades, the inspiration, time, and effort required to show up to this particular flavor of creative expression has felt increasingly harder to access lately.

Roman Coppola «s «A Glimpse Inside the Mind of Charles Swan III,» his long - awaited sophomore directorial effort (arriving more than a decade after «CQ»), finally premiered this month at the Rome Film Festival.

After three decades of trying one improvement effort after another, only one has both worked and proven scalable to reach far more students: charter schAfter three decades of trying one improvement effort after another, only one has both worked and proven scalable to reach far more students: charter schafter another, only one has both worked and proven scalable to reach far more students: charter schools.

«After a span of more than a decade in a series of senior administrative roles at NYU, the Spencer Foundation, and most recently HGSE, Ellen has indicated her desire to devote her full - time efforts once again to her academic work as a leading historian of American education,» Summers added.

After more than two decades of only limited success, why is the national effort to radically improve public education largely confined to fixing the schools the country already has?

This is after decades of continued policy efforts by successive Commonwealth, state and territory governments to ameliorate Indigenous education disadvantage.

After decades of academic decline, and on the heels of a failed attempt to transform the school by bringing in better curricula, the turnaround could well be viewed as a last - ditch effort at reinvention.

Though his ruling was about Connecticut, he spoke to a larger nationwide truth: After the decades of lawsuits about equity and adequacy in education financing, after federal efforts like No Child Left Behind and Race to the Top, after fights over the Common Core standards and high - stakes testing and the tug of war between charter schools and community schools, the stubborn achievement gaps between rich and poor, minority and white students perAfter the decades of lawsuits about equity and adequacy in education financing, after federal efforts like No Child Left Behind and Race to the Top, after fights over the Common Core standards and high - stakes testing and the tug of war between charter schools and community schools, the stubborn achievement gaps between rich and poor, minority and white students perafter federal efforts like No Child Left Behind and Race to the Top, after fights over the Common Core standards and high - stakes testing and the tug of war between charter schools and community schools, the stubborn achievement gaps between rich and poor, minority and white students perafter fights over the Common Core standards and high - stakes testing and the tug of war between charter schools and community schools, the stubborn achievement gaps between rich and poor, minority and white students persist.

Gates is the leader of education philanthropy in the United States, spending a few billion dollars over more than a decade to promote school reforms that he championed, including the Common Core, a small - schools initiative in New York City that he abandoned after deciding it wasn't working, and efforts to create new teacher evaluation systems that in part use a controversial method of assessment that uses student standardized test scores to determine the «effectiveness» of educators.

After decades of improvement, efforts to improve integration on racial and socioeconomic measures have stagnated or moved backward in public schools.

What's far less clear, even after several decades of school renewal efforts, is just how leadership matters, how important those effects are in promoting the learning of all children, and what the essential ingredients of successful leadership are.

After many decades of strenuous effort, we have finally reached the bottom; we're now number 50 among the 50 states in per - pupil funding.

Now, after a decade of research, writing and rewriting, Caldwell is back with a solo effort, a new novel that promises to live up to The Rule of Four.