Sentences with phrase «despite government efforts»

Cindy Blackstock says there is still work to do despite government efforts to close funding gap on child welfare.

Despite Government efforts, the industry is still full of slick advertising, phony rate quotes, and bait - n - switch offers from home mortgage loan companies and banks you probably don't want to really do business with.

Despite government efforts to repress it, local divestment action against South African Apartheid helped to topple that brutal regime.

And it seems that, despite government efforts to incentivise marriage and child - rearing, things aren't quite trending in the right direction.

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Despite all the hype around China's great firewall, efforts to completely shut out international communications are increasingly seen by government actors as unworkable.

Both men are certain we are into a global equity and bond bear market and into a bull market in commodities and precious metals despite all efforts by the government and Federal Reserve to keep financial bull markets alive.

Turkey has signed multiple agreements that flesh out its energy alliance with Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan region, despite last - ditch efforts by Baghdad and Washington to forestall the deal.In a Nov. 27 meeting in Ankara between Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) Prime Minister Nechirvan Barzani, the two sides signed documents to govern export pipelines, the sale of gas, and the handling of revenue, according to two people involved in the negot... This content is for registered users.

OTTAWA — Canada's cities say that Prime Minister Stephen Harper's government is reducing its efforts to invest in affordable housing and fight poverty despite suggesting earlier that it was ready to take action.

The example of postwar Kenya, where the total fertility rate apparently rose from about six to nearly eight during a generation of substantial improvements in health, and despite nearly twenty years of family planning efforts, should make it clear that increasing parents» freedom to choose will serve the purposes of parents, whether or not these are in accordance with the preference or ideology of the government and its advisers.

Report author and SCIAF Policy Officer Jo O'Neill said: «Despite efforts to tackle irresponsible businesses by governments, human rights and environmental abuses continue to take place, and all over the world human rights defenders continue to be threatened and killed.

A President needs the cooperation of other elected officials, something this President had not gotten, despite his efforts to reinstate bipartisan government.

SUICIDE rates among young Australians are sitting at an alarming level despite efforts by mental health organisations and governments to develop prevention strategies.

Despite many of the big players in the cocoa and chocolate supply chain working on sustainability issues like trying to eradicate child labor and stopping environmental damage like deforestation, the efforts of companies and governments have very little influence, according to the Cocoa Barometer 2018.

Whilst most parents do whatever they can to warn their children about the dangers of smoking, there's no denying the statistics — almost one in every four high school seniors today are smokers, despite all the efforts by parents, the government, and healthcare services to warn them of the consequences of taking up this habit.

The boroughs were thought to lack the strategic vision and mandate to co-ordinate their work on London - wide issues, such as transport, strategic planning and economic development, despite the efforts of bodies like the Association of London Government.

Despite its best efforts to contain the human crisis unfolding in Calais, the government has failed to achieve a satisfactory resolution.

U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer, a survivor of Lyme disease, says the federal government is falling behind in its effort to battle the tick - borne disease, despite a move by Congress to boost research into a vaccine.

The action is an unusual example of barristers and solicitors working together, despite efforts from government officials to divide the groups with a more generous approach adopted towards barristers.

More significantly, and despite the very hard efforts of successive governments, it also retains a broader range of political opinion, more reflective of the country at large.

An annual report that monitors fuel poverty across the UK has today been published, highlighting the fact that the relentless increase in the scale of fuel poverty across all four nations of the UK continues despite the efforts of the Westminster Government and the devolved administrations of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.

They have held out for seven years just a stone's throw from his capitol stronghold in Damascus despite the government's intense efforts with conventional weapons to retake this area.

«Despite efforts by the Taraba State Government to get the military to act, they never did.

Despite the fact that in 2013, the government made a frantic effort and deported some Chinese for their involvement in Illegal mining activities, a report published on theguardian.com in July of that same year revealed our government's dependence on the Chinese.

Despite the current government's efforts to circumvent its role in relation to the current referendum, the Electoral Commission has both reasserted itself and been backed by parliament as the key arbiter — most obviously in the matter of the phrasing of the question.

Despite this support, Mr. DiNapoli declined to participate in the program at the urging of good government groups who argued Gov. Andrew Cuomo's efforts to take big money out of politics were half - hearted at best.

The Parents Teachers Association (PTA), of the Tsito - Awudome Senior High School (AWUSCO), in the Volta Region, have explained that the decision to levy students despite the implementation of government's Free Senior High School Policy was a collective resolve by parents to support the school's efforts to enhance the academic performance of students.

The government has today reaffirmed its commitment to airport expansion, despite warnings that the move undermined the UK's efforts to tackle climate change.

However, despite these painstaking efforts the Labour party and Conservative backbenchers united to block any further progress, preventing government from securing a timetable motion without which the Bill effectively becomes impossible to deliver.

Despite the best efforts of some senior civil servants in the Home Office - who believe appeasement is an adequate solution - this Coalition government has made real concrete moves to try and get people off the conveyer belt.

Despite government's efforts to stop piracy in the country, textile companies are still lamenting the impact on their operations of pirated textiles smuggled into the country.

The Minister admitted that, despite the efforts by the police in fighting crime, if vigilantism is not dealt with, it has the potential to negatively affect all the good policies of government such as the One District - One Factory policy.

«The Federal Government on Wednesday regretted that despite the various efforts being put into stabilising the power sector; about 120 million Nigerians were still in darkness.

According to him, the government has made efforts in road construction and rehabilitation despite the lean resources available to it.

The Speaker of the House, Yakubu Dogara, noted that despite legislations and concerted efforts by government agencies, road traffic unions and associations to halt such accidents, tankers and trailers contributed a good number of deaths recorded on the roads.

She equally revealed that the capital budget would be implemented despite the fiscal challenges confronting the nation in terms of the government's commitment to infrastructural development and efforts to grow the economy.

Despite the best efforts of well - intentioned individuals, County government does not have the expertise to run a healthcare - focused operation.

Despite our incredible efforts to change the direction of our county by setting priorities, cutting bureaucracy, reducing spending and re-positioning government for the future, our 2016 budget will include an estimated payment of $ 17 million to pay for «the sins of the past.»

Despite substantial efforts by the Mexican government to protect vaquitas, the recovery team recently reviewed the latest results from advanced acoustic monitoring technology that showed the vaquita population continuing to rapidly decline.

Despite these efforts, the air has refused to clear in Beijing and the government may resort to an even more comprehensive ban — 90 percent of personal vehicles kept from the roads.

The factors at play in India allow the kidney trade to thrive around the world, despite efforts by various governments to stamp it out.

Zoleta Nantes, a Philippines native, said despite those disasters and efforts to strengthen disaster management since 2010, «the Philippine government continues a reactive approach to disasters».

The current effort succeeded, however, despite the toxic political climate in Washington, D.C., and a government divided between a Democratic - held White House and Republican - held Congress.

Having declined over 90 per cent in just 20 years, the vaquita continues to plummet toward extinction despite a two - year ban on gillnet fishing that began in May 2015, as well as surveillance efforts by Mexico's government, environmental authorities and military.

Human carbon emissions are certainly disturbing the climate system upon which we depend, and in spite of the economic slowdown, and despite all the efforts by governments, businesses and people to reduce them, our emissions are reaching new highs.

«Despite efforts by the government to stem the spread of the deadly Ebola viral disease in the country, the virus is proving to be hard to defeat as new cases continue to emerge in the Western Area and northern Sierra Leone.

«Despite tremendous efforts by the government of Liberia and international partners aimed at eradicating the deadly Ebola virus, it seems the fight is becoming difficult to reach an end as new cases of Ebola are again being reported in the country.

Despite the name of this document, the collaborative effort between the USDA and the HHS suggests an inherent conflict between the two government agencies.

The portrayal of the Muslim terrorists is frightening and intense (the effort from Aymen Saidi as the terrorist leader is so filled with anger that it's painfully good), despite conveying a sense of insanity that seems circumspect, and the Algerian government is painted as dumbly trying to endanger French citizens as long as they possibly can, with only the French seeming to come out in a good light, when the assault on the plane saves the day.

Meryl Streep and Tom Hanks lead a strong supporting cast in this story about «The Washington Post» and its efforts to publish «The Pentagon Papers,» despite threats from the government as well as doubts by the newspaper's board of directors, which is in the process of taking the company public.

Nationwide, school administrators identify only a tiny fraction of their teachers as ineffective, despite major evaluation - reform efforts by state and federal governments.