Sentences with phrase «despite decades of effort»

Despite decades of effort, public education still struggles with inequity.

They conclude, «The role of marine omega - 3 in colorectal cancer prevention is still unclear and remains elusive despite decades of effort.»

But almost all fluids are viscous in nature and, despite decades of effort, no one has managed to come up with a generally accepted way to handle viscous fluids traveling at relativistic velocities.

Despite decades of effort since then, seismologists still have not settled on a reliable early warning system for such deadly quakes, though systems are used in Japan and Europe.

Despite decades of effort, however, researchers were unable to develop a mouse model of renal cell carcinoma — until now.

Despite decades of effort, scientists do not know precisely what temperatures or greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere constitute a danger.

Despite decades of effort, scientists still don't understand how biology achieves this protein - folding process, or, once folded, how protein structures are stabilised.

Despite decades of efforts, precisely controlling phase transformations at the atomic scale still poses a significant challenge due to the intricacies of governing thermodynamic conditions with atomic precision.

Air pollution remains a top global health threat despite decades of efforts to stop it.

No amount of effort has thusfar produced a successful long - term solution; despite decades of efforts, the underrepresentation dilemma persists.

Not exact matches

Despite the headlines, there has been a quiet, decades - long effort of partnership and cooperation between Muslims, Christians and others, extending from Dakar to Jakarta.

The seemingly intractable and intertwined problems of drug abuse, violence, poor education, broken families, and health disparities have endured for decades without budging despite plenty of efforts to help.

These tactics serve to keep global breastfeeding rates low over decades despite various efforts by the Ministries of Health in countries, and by breastfeeding advocates,» notes Sarah Amin, Executive Director of the World Alliance for Breastfeeding Action (WABA).

, built as it was from the emerging Labour movement, any more than Labour could «strangle» the environmental movement and Green Party or the Liberal Democrats (despite your best efforts: little sign of success post-1974); or any more than the LibDems could conceivably «destroy and replace» the Labour Party in the next decade or two.

Since then, despite all the efforts that have been made to tackle the issue of budget fraud within the EU, a report by the EU internal audit service in 2003 revealed serious impropriety at Eurostat, the EU statistics agency, where large sums of money had been diverted by officials for more than a decade.

Despite the decades of tough talking and billions of dollars spent in waging this war, the global drug problem and the criminal markets that underpin it remain all but untouched by our enforcement efforts.

Despite these efforts, it will likely take decades before society sees the benefits of driverless cars.

Despite predictions decades ago of the baiji's decline, few efforts were made to preserve the animal outside its main habitat in a few reserves.

Despite decades of educational reform and legal efforts, many U.S. schools are experiencing increasing segregation, with 16 percent of public schools serving both minority and high poverty students.

Despite the tremendous growth in global collaborative efforts such as Human Genome Project and Human Frontier Science Program during past few decades, only about 30 % of research output from the United States is internationally collaborative (Global Scientific Collaboration in the 21st Century, 2011, The Royal Society).

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.

Despite efforts over the past several decades to reduce dietary intake of sodium, a main component of table salt, the average American adult still consumes 3,400 mg or more of sodium a day — equivalent to about 1 1/2 teaspoons of salt.

A decade later, there is still no vaccine, despite an increasingly organized global effort and the quadrupling of funds committed to it.

Despite the efforts of Gu and others, systems science in China today remains rooted in the hard systems engineering approaches that rocket scientists pioneered decades ago.

And the claim typically persists for decades once widely - cited, despite the best efforts of serious investigators to critique weak methodologies and flawed interpretation, or even robust demonstrations of a null effect in healthy animals (as the two independent demonstrations that resveratrol does not extend lifespan in nonobese, wild - type mice over a wide range of doses).»

Despite ongoing efforts to control leprosy in Myanmar, the last decade has seen little change in the incidence of disease.

The researchers found that, «despite large environmental change and management efforts over recent decades, water quality of lakes in the Midwest and Northeast U.S. has not overwhelmingly degraded or improved.»

Big Eyes seems to be one of the centerpieces of his efforts this year, as evidenced by the fact that he has given it a coveted Christmas Day release date, which remains the most high - profile launching date for an awards hopeful, despite the fact that it has been more than a decade since a December release has won Best Picture.

, a new book by HGSE lecturer Katherine Boles (co-authored by Vivian Trn), contends that teaching in America has deteriorated for decades to reach a low point unmatched since the era of the one - room schoolhouse»» despite billions of dollars spent on school reform efforts and millions more spent to recruit bodies to teach in U.S. classsrooms.

Yet despite volumes of policy guidance, on - the - ground effort and research over the past decades, few comprehensive and representative portraits of teacher and teaching quality in U.S. mathematics classrooms exist.

Many of those schools have been failing for a decade or longer despite numerous turnaround efforts, largely because they have been overseen by districts that are themselves failing.

Despite the last few decades of intensive school reform efforts, «even the most ardent reformers must admit that public schools and student learning have improved only slightly, if at all,» writes Wolk.

Despite all our efforts and the best of intentions, the gaps between African - American and white students are as large as they were two decades ago.

The 1453 - cc engine, sharply tuned fifty - seven years ago by Alfred Momo — who was to Cunningham's racing efforts what Phil Remington was to Carroll Shelby and Dan Gurney's teams decades later — is not really suitable for a morning commute in stop - and - go running, but despite pulling a remarkable 130 hp, it is quite flexible and very eager, a physical testimony to the long - term brilliance of the Maserati brothers and their passion for racing.

Despite decades of our extermination efforts (trapping, shooting, snaring, poisoning), coyotes have expanded their range threefold since the mid 1800's, largely as a result of our extensive forest clearing and eradication of wolves and cougars, which has left a significant void in the predator / prey hierarchy.

Legge also found that «cat densities were the same both inside and outside conservation reserves, such as national parks,» despite several decades of all - out efforts to eradicate feral cats from protected habitat.

In particular, it is sometimes argued that (a) despite past public communication efforts, public understanding of the scientific consensus has not changed much in the last decade and hence the approach must not be very effective (i.e., «the stasis argument»)[13] and (b) because people are predisposed to engage in protective motivated reasoning (i.e., people process information consistent with their ideological worldviews), consensus - messaging is likely to be unsuccessful or could even backfire [12, 14].

«In spite of these efforts, and in light of the hazards that are here and worsening, Plaintiffs are spending, and must continue to spend, millions of dollars to protect their property and residents from the impacts of climate change... Despite receiving the warning that «fossil fuel use should not be encouraged,» Defendants spent decades selling and promoting fossil fuels without disclosing the dangers that continued fossil fuel over-use posed.»

Not much: despite efforts over many decades, the international community has not been very effective at rebuilding stability through rule of law.

Despite legislative efforts in the past two decades to clarify and reduce the duties of dual agents, agents and consumers are still confused about agents who represent both sellers and buyers.