Sentences with phrase «despite continued improvement»

Despite continued improvement, too many people in the U.S. live where the air is unhealthy for them to breathe.

Not exact matches

The book does not discuss at length issues such as widespread poverty and income inequality, which, despite improvements in recent years, continue to top the list of problems in Latin America.

Despite the area's improvements, Meyers stressed the importance of the community continuing to work together to improve the capital landscape.

But as Bernanke noted: «Despite this improvement, the job market remains weak overall: The unemployment rate is still well above its longer - run normal level, rates of long - term unemployment are historically high, and the labor force participation rate has continued to move down.

Or do we need to ask more fundamental questions about an economic system that, despite improvements here and there, continues to degrade the planet?

Are improvements in economic welfare so connected to increases in GNP that, despite the differences between economic welfare and market activity, it is appropriate to continue to use GNP as a way of measuring economic success?

Despite the obvious quality throughout the current squad, there is certainly room for improvement in both depth and star... Continue reading →

It says, «despite this tremendous overall improvement, maternal mortality continues to be a significant public health issue and commands an enormous amount of attention.»

To broaden the understanding on the persistent barriers that despite various global policy and advocacy initiatives over the past 30 years, continue to impede improvement in exclusive breastfeeding rates and violate the human rights of those affected;...

In a fascinating new study published in the journal Obesity, researchers found that cutting sugar in children's diets for just ten days caused marked improvements in their metabolic health - despite the fact that the sugar was replaced by other... [Continue reading]

Despite the current fiscal crisis, Governor Cuomo's Executive Budget continues prior year funding levels for the core transportation capital programs supported by the Dedicated Highway and Bridge Trust Fund, providing $ 501 million for highway and bridge construction, $ 363.1 million for the Consolidated Highway Improvement Program (CHIPS) and $ 39.7 million for the Marchiselli program for local governments, and $ 16.9 million for Amtrak service subsidies and additional rail capital investments.

The results also suggest that some patients continue to use these potentially addictive pain medications despite improvement in their hip or knee pain.

In the academic context, the CSB report continues, each lab's PI must be fully engaged with safety — a situation that, despite apparent improvements, is far too rare today.

Despite improvements in detection methods and more accurate ship positions, as well as warmer seas, ships continue to have close encounters with frozen, floating objects

Data from 1997 - 2012 reveal that the improvements in performance are on - going, despite increases in handicap weight, and continue to be driven largely by increases in speeds of sprinters, especially at the elite level.

Improvements to U.S. energy security despite rising tensions in oil - producing regions have prompted questions about whether the United States needs to continue enforcing the provisions of the Carter Doctrine that require Washington to maintain a large and costly military presence in the Persian Gulf.

From Zürich, lead author Dr. William Ball says Earth's ozone shield against harmful radiation continues to weaken — despite an improvement of big ozone holes over the Poles.

From Zürich, lead author Dr. William Ball says Earth's ozone shield against harmful radiation continues to weaken — despite an improvement of big ozone holes...

Multiple dermatologists encouraged me to continue using Retin - A for over ten years, despite seeing no improvement with my skin.

If it continues to look ineffably flat despite obvious improvements in contrast, blame director Roger Spottiswoode and DP Pierre Mignot for lighting the thing like high - end TV.

Josh Dunn talks with Education Next about continuing efforts by New York City Chancellor Joel Klein to close chronically failing schools — despite a ruling by a state court that the closings could not proceed — using a federal School Improvement Grant.

Pupils in Wales continue to lag behind the rest of the UK in English lessons despite improvements, say inspectors.

Last week, the Colorado State Board of Education turned its back on the 83,475 students in turnaround and priority improvement schools when they gave Aurora Central High School and HOPE Online a free pass to continue to continue to collect our tax dollars despite not educating our students.

We evaluated the research of highly effective school library programs, the passage of ESSA, and compelling stories of school library media specialists who are striving to continue to serve their students despite great challenges, and have determined that improvement is necessary.

Despite an unprecedented investment of federal funds, 92 of California's lowest performing schools continue to struggle to improve student performance since the 2009 relaunch of the School Improvement Grant program.

Despite continued emphasis on systemic approaches to school improvement, schools struggle to use data and information in a manner consistent with systems thinking.

Despite the lack of empirical evidence, professional knowledge and wisdom continue to emphasize the importance of ongoing data collection to overall school improvement.

While Jaguar continues to struggle to drum up customer demand despite categorical improvements across its lineup, Land Rover has earned itself long waiting lists and big profits.

historically, society has tended to isolate and segregate individuals with disabilities, and, despite some improvements, such forms of discrimination against individuals with disabilities continue to be a serious and pervasive social problem;

Despite BlackBerry 6 offering numerous incremental feature improvements and RIM continuing to post their biggest quarterly earnings reports in the company's history, a lot of the tech press has been beating up on good ole BlackBerry as of late.

We evaluated the research of highly effective school library programs, the passage of ESSA, and compelling stories of school library media specialists who are striving to continue to serve their students despite great challenges, and have determined that improvement is necessary.

Debts incurred due to uninsured or underinsured medical expenses continue to be a major issue in personal bankruptcy cases, despite recent improvements in access to health insurance.

And despite a substantial increase in payables days (to 42 days), it's reasonable to expect further / offsetting improvement in payment terms — as store / food & beverage revenue increases as a % of total revenue, and Applegreen continues to extract better payment terms as a listed company & as its revenue / scale grows.

Why do you think investors are continuing to withdraw money from commodity index investments despite recent improvements in the performance of the asset class?

Despite the current mid-cycle economic slowdown in Europe, European banks should also experience further improvement in their credit fundamentals as non-performing loans continue to decline.

«Despite improvements in the economy, homelessness continues to be a reality for many people.

«Despite improvements in the economy, homelessness continues to be a reality for many people,» said Genevieve Frederick, founder.

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Despite gallery closures and continued challenges for mid-sized dealers, 2017 will likely see an improvement in the art market's size over 2016.

NEW YORK — Despite continued uncertainty about the economy, many museums saw improvements in their financial health last year, reaping the benefits of cutbacks and other cautionary fiscal measures taken in the recent past.

The Commission explained: «Serious religious freedom violations continue in Cuba, despite improvements for government - approved religious groups.»

From Zürich, lead author Dr. William Ball says Earth's ozone shield against harmful radiation continues to weaken — despite an improvement of big ozone holes over the Poles.

Despite continuous improvements in energy intensities, global energy use and supply are projected to continue to grow, especially as developing countries pursue industrialization.

At the same time, despite any hype that may accompany it or questionable practices on the part of sales and marketing people, technical innovators report that many barriers to entry have fallen, that software has advanced rapidly, as have database management improvements, As such, what was not possible even a few years ago now is and the pattern continues.

Despite this improvement the frontal headaches continue.

The clear differences in working practices between traditional law firms and alternative legal providers are starting to disappear, a study out today (5 February) by Jomati Consultants has found, with a notable upsurge in the adoption of legal project management (LPM) and process improvement techniques, despite continuing fee earner resistance.

Despite the advantages and disadvantages of the NT Intervention, in light of the acute levels of deprivation and disadvantage continuing to exist in many communities, the Review Board found that the NT Intervention should be continued, but that there needed to be improvements made.

Overall, this function suggests on - off partners who had a continued desire for the relationship despite not experiencing improvements or the partners having similar goals (i.e., maintained interest despite no change) appeared to feel the relationship was unique with fewer alternatives but had more uncertainty and less network support (i.e., unique but uncertainty and no support).

Despite the funding uncertainties, North Carolina continues to improve its early childhood programs by updating its quality rating and improvement system, strengthening alignment of NC Pre-K with the k - 12 system, and increasing child care subsidy funding.

According to our second quarter Mortgage Lender Sentiment Survey, lenders expect to ease credit standards further; however, we continue to project that the pace of growth in total home sales will slow to 3.3 percent this year, as we believe rapid home price gains amid scarce supply will remain a hurdle for potential homebuyers, despite improvements in credit access.»