Sentences with phrase «despite decades of failure»

Despite decades of failure, a hardy band of engineers continues to dream.

Despite decades of failures in Alzheimer's drug development, scientific attention continues to focus on drugs that «attack» a molecular compound called beta amyloid, with the goal of curing the disease.

Not exact matches

Despite Vogel's involvement in the case that took away 18 years of Avery's life, the attorney does not seem to be experiencing the same level of backlash as Kratz (perhaps because the state's failures in 1985 have been well known to the public for more than a decade at this point).

«The gender pay gap, which continues despite decades of girls outperforming boys at school and university, is also a huge economic failure.

He linked the failures over Windrush - people who came to Britain decades ago who are being forced to prove they are here legally despite being citizens - to the failure of officials to draw up a Brexit immigration plan.

The root of the problem, according to EWG, is failure on the part of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), despite repeated requests from public health and consumer advocates, to implement sunscreen safety standards, some of which were proposed by government scientists more than three decades ago.

As the New York Times reported when Anderson took over, in June of 2011, «Cami Anderson faces the monumental task of rescuing an urban school system that has long been mired in low achievement, high turnover and a culture of failure, despite decades of state intervention.»

Despite all of the emphasis on education reform during the past decade, the retirement of an aging teacher corps has been substantially overlooked — a failure that could inhibit school improvement, a study by the Educational Resources Information Center clearinghouse on management suggests.

According to the Times, Cami Anderson, all of 39 years old, «faces the monumental task of rescuing an urban school system [Newark] that has long been mired in low achievement, high turnover and a culture of failure, despite decades of state intervention.»