Sentences with phrase «despite huge progress»

Despite huge progress in creating a more holistic climate and energy strategy, the final text has proved a disappointment for members of the NGO community.

Despite the huge progress made in the last hundred years, science has so far failed to cure all our ailments.

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Despite significant progress in recent decades, malnutrition is still a huge barrier to children's health and development around the world.

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.

Among the facts from the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) Fourth Grade Reading report cited by FairTest: — There has been no gain in NAEP grade four reading performance nationally since 1992 despite a huge increase in state - mandated testing; — NAEP scores in southern states, which test the most and have the highest stakes attached to their state testing programs, have declined; — The NAEP score gap between white children and those from African American and Hispanic families has increased, even though schools serving low - income and minority - group children put the most emphasis on testing; and — Scores of children eligible for free lunch programs have dropped since 1996.

Consequently, role - playing games tend to be released faster than I can complete them, leaving me with a huge backlog of half - finished (or barely touched) titles; for example, it pains me to say it, but I'm yet to make any decent progress on a Mass Effect title, despite owning the first two games in the trilogy!

Despite significant progress against child marriage, it remains a huge challenge.

If you're wondering why Congress has yet to tackle this global crisis despite overwhelming scientific consensus and ballooning costs of inaction, Think Progress has an interactive map that shows the huge sums of political donations given by the oil and gas industry alongside which members of Congress deny the realities of global warming.

(13 April 2018) Despite huge gains in child well - being during the MDG era, progress for adolescents — children in the second decade of life — is still lagging behind.