Sentences with phrase «despite federal efforts»

Our clean energy economy is growing too, despite federal efforts to derail it.

Despite federal efforts this year to change the Affordable Care Act, you can still buy health insurance through your state Health Insurance Marketplace and financial help to lower monthly premiums and out of pocket costs is still available.

Not exact matches

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.

Despite a poor start he eventually went on to marshal the whole country's support behind the federal relief and reconstruction effort.

Despite efforts by Trump to block federal funding for Gateway, a new train link under the Hudson River, the project could receive as much as $ 540 million from a spending bill Congress hammered out — much less than the $ 900 million that previously had been intended, but not the shutout the president had been pushing.

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 federal tax plan should raise hopes for more startups in Syracuse, despite Cuomo's commitment to curtail the federal tax plan's effort.

He said, «I want to sincerely appreciate the efforts of Ogbeni Aregbesola on his intervention on federal roads in the state despite the paucity of funds.

«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.

Despite their comparatively modest share of federal R&D funding, colleges and universities have long played a key role in the nation's R&D effort.

Despite their comparatively modest share of federal R&D funding, colleges and universities play a key role in the nation's R&D effort.

Despite a series of federal and state efforts in recent months to get rid of the product, it remains in salons across the country.

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.

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

The good news is that, in large part because of NCLB and the accountability measures that federal law has encouraged at all levels of school reform — not to mention the dogged efforts of Diane Ravitch and Sol Stern to keep Bloomberg and Klein on their toes — these arguments are smarter and more refined — and, yes, despite public relations — more transparent.

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.

Add it up and, despite frantic efforts by a number of groups to preserve some sort of federal accountability mandates in the next ESEA cycle, I think these should go away and almost surely will.

Concerned that Head Start participants benefited from little gap narrowing despite the expenditure of nearly $ 10,000 in federal funds on each of them, Health and Human Services (HHS) assistant secretary Wade Horn mounted an ambitious effort in 2003 to beef up the program's preschool elements and to evaluate its providers on the basis of their cognitive outcomes.

Despite frantic efforts by a number of groups to preserve some sort of federal accountability mandates in the next ESEA cycle, I think these should go away and almost surely will.

Today, our nation's education system continues to face stagnating achievement gains, despite nearly 10 years of federal education reform efforts.

Reading achievement in D.C. public schools has climbed in the fourth grade in recent years, the federal government reported Wednesday, while progress nationwide has stalled despite huge instructional efforts launched under the No Child Left Behind law.

Despite our efforts to further reduce spending, the District continues to struggle with increasing statutory and contractual obligations and declining state and federal revenues.

Despite months of good - faith efforts by responsible pet professionals, AB 485 still threatens ethically run pet stores which, thanks to industry standards and federal and state laws, are already the most highly regulated entities providing pets to Californians.

Three men and two women managed to sneak into the hearings on Tuesday despite efforts by the federal review panel to limit access, said Vancouver Police Sgt. Randy Fincham.

Despite the repeated claims from the Federal Government about all of its efforts to tackle Australia's emissions, the fact is that very little of any consequence has been achieved, and that is why underlying emissions continue to grow unchecked.

Since that time, conditions have been steadily worsening with agricultural regions drying out, farmers, communities and industries forced to further deplete limited ground water supplies, and with reservoirs dropping despite best efforts by federal and state officials to conserve.

The Australian federal government's effort to levy a tax on carbon - dioxide emissions to battle supposed «climate change» is facing massive resistance from voters, despite a flurry of pro-carbon-tax propaganda and government - funded reports touting alleged benefits of the scheme while downplaying its harmful effects.

«That's in part why, despite consistent efforts to weaken or roll back existing federal climate policies, the administration has yet to successfully suspend, weaken, or repeal a major climate protection.»

Again, these methane emissions reduction trends can be traced to voluntary efforts — not the stringent and costly «one - size - fits - all» federal rules that environmental groups insist are needed, despite the fact that they will provide little climate benefit.

Despite these threats, the Immigrant Legal Resource Center found that sanctuary protections were strengthened across 410 localities and five states in 2017, restricting the use of their agencies» time, money, or other resources from being spent on federal immigration enforcement efforts.

So, this is an example of how badly drafted legislation can seriously impede economic development despite all the efforts being done at the federal level.

In rejecting an argument that a conversion claim against a towing company, which had sold a towed vehicle despite the owner's efforts to reclaim it, was preempted by federal law governing a «service» of motor carriers, the Second District cited an internet news story about the inventor of the tow truck.29 The court relied on facts from that article to make the temporal point that Florida law permitted claims for conversion of property before there were tow trucks.

A pretty large volume of the entire U.S. Court of Appeals docket involves sentencing decisions where guilt is not disputed, and surely panel sentencing in cases with potentially long sentences would reduce that and might even be money saving for the federal judicial branch as a whole despite the extra effort invested at the trial court level, in addition to furthering justice by balancing out extreme stances.

And, when it comes to prevention efforts, federal dollars aren't being lavished on the region in the way they are being distributed to other parts of the country, despite the region's compelling need for funding.

Despite efforts of anti-women's health politicians to cut family planning, the bill passed by the committee today protects Title X — the nation's only federal program for birth control that 4 million women count on each year — and Teen Pregnancy Prevention Programs that provides young people the tools to plan for their futures.

Despite concerns about the negative long - term effects of federal stimulus efforts - including the impact they will have on the country's huge budget deficit - the U.S. government continues to take action to help spur the economy.

Despite the best efforts of dozens of local, state, and federal agencies, private businesses, and nonprofit groups, it took a colossal effort to bring the project to where it is now.