Sentences with phrase «despite years of effort»

Despite years of effort, the marble façade of the Taj Mahal keeps getting a dirty brownish - yellow due to air pollution.

Most striking is that, despite years of effort, carbon dioxide emissions are increasing at an alarming rate of 3.5 % a year — faster than the 2.7 % predicted by the IPCC in their worst case scenario, and miles ahead of the 0.9 % annual rise in the 1990s.

Yet despite years of effort, Common Core's critics have largely failed to repeal the standards, which aim to emphasize critical thinking over rote memorization.

Despite years of effort by governments, there has been little or no improvement in the quality of education provided in government schools.

Despite years of effort to help American seniors with high blood pressure, heart disease, or diabetes get their blood pressure, cholesterol and blood sugar under control, new research shows wide gaps between older people of different ethnic backgrounds in all three of these key health measures.

Despite years of effort, it has been remarkably difficult to develop efficient methods for transformation (i.e., genetic modification) of grain crops.

Despite years of effort to stabilize proteins outside of their native environments, scientists have made limited progress in combining proteins with synthetic components without compromising protein activity.

«Despite years of effort Blacks and Latinos continue to have higher unemployment rate, lower school graduation rates, and suffer more police brutality,» White said.

But like the last bridesmaid to get engaged, despite years of efforts by Avison Young to ensure the building's former iteration was widely courted, poked and prodded, there's still no ring on the finger — or anchor tenant inked on a dotted line.

Not exact matches

Despite the best efforts of politicians, experts, and journalists to predict how the political landscape will change over the next few years, nobody really knows what it will happen.

Part of the reason is that it can take years to access prison rehabilitation programs if you have a longer sentence because people with shorter sentences get priority; despite recent national efforts to make opioid antidotes and addiction treatments more widely accessible, many prisons still don't have these programs in place, leaving addicts who make it out of prison far more susceptible to relapse.

Even last year, despite all the efforts by Beijing to rein in its stimulus efforts, investment in fixed assets was the fastest - growing segment of the economy.

After a couple of years, despite my best efforts, this project started to feel meaningful.

By 2013, they had fallen to $ 1.46 billion, despite the company's efforts to steady the business in the last couple of years through steps such as improving reps» cut of the action, and streamlining its product assortment to focus on lower - priced products.

But through this process, we've come to understand that something went very terribly wrong around 5 years ago, resulting in Julie and Tony's divorce, despite the efforts of many of those in the once - off discernment group to help.

The example of postwar Kenya, where the total fertility rate apparently rose from about six to nearly eight during a generation of substantial improvements in health, and despite nearly twenty years of family planning efforts, should make it clear that increasing parents» freedom to choose will serve the purposes of parents, whether or not these are in accordance with the preference or ideology of the government and its advisers.

Theories of modernization, despite the rather serious attacks to which they have been subjected in recent years, have been so prominent in the social sciences, and have played such an important role in our thinking about social change, that any effort to consider the changing relations between states and religious institutions must begin here.

His was a desperate effort to prove that, despite his years (32 or more) and reputation (not of the highest), Willie still was good enough to rate the boxing license New York recently denied him.

Despite his efforts in helping the team with a brilliant drive at Interlagos, Petrov found himself out of F1 for the following year - a situation Felipe Nasr surely knows all too well.

Still, the most critical issue is potential brain damage, and before all this information became available (despite the best efforts of the NCAA and NFL) in the past few years, I would have most likely allowed my son (if I had had one) to play football.

Vettel got into the DRS zone on the last lap but couldn't mount enough of an attack despite his best efforts, and Bottas took the win by just six - tenths of a second - the same gap he beat Vettel by when he won his first GP in Russia earlier this year!

The 19 year - old goalkeeper was unable to match the power and precision of the strike and had to squirm as the ball bounced up into the net despite his efforts.,

Despite everyone's best efforts, the Club has failed to achieve any of its stated targets this year, with the exception of qualification for next season's UEFA Champions League.

However, despite his best efforts, the 17 - year - old couldn't finish with a medal after losing out to the eventual champion Anza Urankar in the last four, and then Song Huang of China in the bronze medal race.

This ability in the air is something that the Arsenal midfield had been lacking last season despite the 23 - year - old's efforts, winning the most per league game of any Arsenal midfielder last season.

Veloz also revealed that despite the best efforts of two of Pato's other representatives, Kia Joorabchian and Giuliano Bertolucci, Corinthians are yet to receive a formal bid for the 26 - year - old.

Due to complicated food allergies that it took us 2.5 years to identify - I don't feel we ever really succeeded - despite all of our efforts we were not able to ease or eliminate her suffering when she cried.

After eight years of work to «fix school food», I am convinced that while on paper it may be possible to draw up a budget to operate a school meal program, including all of the expenses — food, labor, overhead, kitchen facilities, equipment, staff training, office expenses, everything it takes to run a meal program — with nutritious scratch cooked lunches for $ 2.72 apiece, no district of any size is, in fact, doing it, despite the best efforts of many capable people like Ann Cooper.

Despite your best efforts and doing everything right, you just can't seem to get out of this rut... while half the other parents around the world are getting their babies out of diapers by 1 year old, with no resistance.

The Planet Box isn't cheap, but then I considered the fact that despite my best cleaning efforts, those soft - sided lunch boxes we buy at Target every year barely make it to June (and in fact I feel like donning a Hazmat suit when I finally dispose of them), so when you combine its longevity with the fact that you won't need to buy baggies or foil, the Planet Box may well pay for itself.

A year before polling day, it was clear that despite energetic and positive campaigns, many of them were not making the progress that their talent and effort warranted.

An effort by Governor Andrew Cuomo to cap the outside pay of state legislators this year failed to gain any traction, despite the scrutiny raised by the corruption cases of Silver and former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos.

And despite opposition from his party's leadership, he also led the effort to remove a State Senator convicted of a domestic violence crime — the first state legislator to get the boot in 90 years.»

Despite the fact that in 2013, the government made a frantic effort and deported some Chinese for their involvement in Illegal mining activities, a report published on theguardian.com in July of that same year revealed our government's dependence on the Chinese.

Despite the best efforts of Cairns and Lamont, the record for fastest MP set by Matthew Parris some 33 years ago looks unlikely to be smashed any time soon.

Despite your own personal efforts and those of your PES colleagues, in Britain, we can not really claim that we made a European argument, not in this campaign, nor for the last 10 years.

The bill has been modified to try to quell concerns in the Assembly Democratic conference that prevented the measure from passing last year despite efforts by a former WNY Democratic senator, Bill Stachowski, to hold up a budget deal in hopes of getting an agreement on what morphed into a SUNY - wide proposal.

In a similar resolution the Town Board also continued it years - long effort to keep the killers of Pearl River teenager Paula Bohovesky in prison for the remainder of their lives, despite upcoming parole hearings for convicted murderers Richard LaBarbera and Robert McCain.

Despite international efforts, there was «no realistic prospect of a world without nuclear weapons in the foreseeable future», Mr Browne said, adding that no such weapons had been used in 50 years because, in part, countries like Britain had a deterrent.

«Despite the efforts of teachers and pupils, the value of this year's test results will be poured over and questioned and schools face the prospect of being held to account unfairly on the basis of this year's results data.

Despite Secretary of Defense Robert Gates urging Congress not to vote on repeal this year, Levin has has continued to push forward with the effort.

«I'm pleased to present a proposed budget that demonstrates my administration's effort to stabilize county finances, ensure our county safety and our vibrancy,» said McCoy, a Democrat, who hails the $ 679 million spending plan as one that builds on the county's «sound» fiscal practices while keeping county spending under the state - mandated tax cap for the fifth year in a row,»... despite the continuous pressures of unfunded mandates and the real cuts we face in 2018 for state aid and programs such as foster care.»

«I'm a 28 - year - old from a town nobody's ever heard of,» said Patrick Nelson, who is undeterred in his effort to clinch the Democratic nomination despite being dwarfed in fundraising.

An assistant U.S. attorney for 4 1⁄2 years, Sini, in his short Suffolk career, spent 14 months as a little - known law enforcement aide to County Executive Steve Bellone, and narrowly lost a 2015 campaign for county legislator, despite the best efforts of both Bellone and Suffolk Democratic chairman Richard Schaffer and $ 152,000 in campaign contributions to put him over the top.

The reorganization meeting to elect a board president and vice president for the coming year ended with the re-election of Barbara Seals Nevergold as board president despite Paladino's best efforts to unseat her.

Despite China's heroic efforts to clean up the air for last year's summer Olympics, Beijing remains buried under layers of pollution, the result of rapid industrialization.

But, despite his efforts, the ground won't soak up enough water to meet his self - appointed goal of restraining runoff from a 100 - year flood.

Its main message is that despite many years of effort to redress science's gender balance, progress has been slow: Women constitute 44.5 % of all academic staff in the United Kingdom, but only 20.5 % of professors are women (17 % in science, technology, engineering and mathematics — STEM — fields).

Despite the current efforts to enable proper training, the shortage of experts will remain a bottleneck for at least another 5 years or so.

Despite the campaign's four - year effort, as well as increased media attention to the emergence and spread of infectious diseases, Americans still don't get it.