Sentences with phrase «despite years of promises»

Despite years of promises, wireless charging has yet to really took root in the consumer's mind.

He issued it out of frustration at the failure of law firms to make meaningful progress in diversifying their ranks, despite years of promises.

Despite years of promises, Mario would not return to gaming until the arrival of Mario Sunshine in the summer of 2002 — nearly six years after Mario 64 was released.

Having cancelled the Building Schools For The Future funding Todmorden High School and Calder High were to receive under the previous Labour government, the Tories and Lib Dem Coalition now deliver this double blow to the Upper Valley despite years of promises and pledges from our local MP.»

At an 11 a.m. news conference, Miner said developer Robert Congel told city officials Tuesday that the expansion of Carousel Center mall known as Destiny USA will go no further, despite years of promises by Congel that it would eventually mushroom into a major tourist attraction on par with Disney World.

Not exact matches

So some analysts and investors with long memories are wary of the promise of using the millimeter wave rights for business cases that sound eerily familiar, despite the obvious advances in technology that have occurred over the past 20 years.

Still, the weak showing left G.M. with a lower market share for the year than it had a year earlier despite executives» promises that G.M. would begin to grow again after decades of shrinking market share.

Despite the rough first year, Premier Redford's Tories still have at least three years left until the next election to fulfill the promises made and mend fences with the bloc of moderate voters who saved their party from defeat one year ago today.

Things didn't look promising after ASU did not extend Graham's contract, despite getting a seemingly automatic one - year contract extension after or during each of his first four seasons as Arizona State's head coach.

Ki Sung - yueng, who rejoined Swansea in the summer following a year spent at Sunderland, has cemented the holding midfield role under Garry Monk — a position that Arsenal want addressing despite the promising form of Francis Coquelin.

In addition to honest and open communication concerns, there are also fundamental issues of managerial incompetence, poor negotiating strategy, procrastination, dithering, lack of ambition, lack of willingness to compete with the top teams in the league despite supposedly being financial heavyweights, desperation at the very end of the window, compounded by promises made when Arsene was re-signed and poor team selection decisions for the first three matches, further compounded by a pattern of incompetence during transfer windows and in general management of the team in recent years that understandable has fan patience at a very low level.

Gedion Zelalem is a player that's slowly becoming a forgotten man, despite many years of promise at Arsenal.

Despite that, the team still boasts a potent attack with U.S. Women's National Team star forward Alex Morgan, former URFC forward Sydney Leroux, promising young player Rachel Hill who scored 9 goals in Australia's W - League this year, and Brazilian legend Marta, the 5 - time FIFA World Player of the Yyear, and Brazilian legend Marta, the 5 - time FIFA World Player of the YearYear.

Mario signed for the Nerazzurri in a # 36m deal back in August last year, but has failed to live up to expectations despite starting off his second season in Italian football with a lot of promise.

A product of the Santos youth academy, Gustavo Henrique has shown considerable promise during his career so far despite suffering from two serious knee injuries over the past couple of years.

Following a two - year spell out on loan with Werder Bremen, former Bayer Leverkusen midfielder Öztunalı moved to Mainz this summer despite having previously rivalled Julian Brandt as not only one the most promising player at the club but in all of Germany.

We've yet to see any real snow this year, despite promises of downfalls in November, so we decided to make

He had been tipped for a peerage, despite being photographed with a dossier of the coalition's broken promises outside No 10 last year.

Cuomo's scathing Commission of Correction report says Rikers has become even more dangerous over the past year — despite de Blasio's promises to improve things — with spikes in gang assaults, attacks on staff and contraband being smuggled into the facility.

He added: «This dispute could seriously worsen if employers do not take account of the mood of lecturers who have seen promise after promise to improve their pay broken - even despite the billions of pounds of new money entering higher education this year.»

As the UK marks 200 days until the start of the Olympic and Paralympic Games, the FSB's «Voice of Small Business» Survey Panel shows that 62 per cent of small firms believe that the Games will have no long term positive impact on their business, despite promises that the legacy of the London 2012 Games will continue for years.

Despite years of soaring rhetoric, not only has he failed to bring corruption to heel as repeatedly promised, he has become the poster child for it.

De Blasio is defending his plan not to identify prospective candidates for city Department of Education chancellor, despite promising last year that if elected he would ensure a «serious, serious public screening.»

And the infuriating news (we've been strung along for months, as many suspected, that there was any support for repeal this year from the White House despite Obama's State of the Union promise):

Despite promises otherwise, in 2012, the governor agreed to an awful redistricting plan that gave incumbents even more protection and which left New Yorkers with the only option of keeping a lousy system in place or approving a new system that offers virtually no improvements for years to come.

The building is basically empty and has been without a corporate anchor for years, despite a series of promises.

Despite his promise to protect public services, Osborne's decision to make town halls find 7.1 % of savings for each of the next four years is expected to hit those most in need of local provision.

Despite that promise, the number of homeless people living in hotels has grown over the past year.

When the Obama administration promised $ 8 billion for rail service improvements earlier this year as part of its $ 787 - billion economic stimulus package, it opened a flood of interest in high - speed railroads, a mode of transport that has languished in the U.S. despite successes in east Asia, Europe and other parts of the world.

Despite repeated promises over the past 18 years, the US Office of Nuclear Energy (NE) is unlikely to deliver on its mission to develop and demonstrate an advanced nuclear reactor by the mid-21st century.

Despite a huge sense of relief, Jackson says there is still concern about next year's budget, although there are promising signs: The House Appropriations Committee approved a budget of $ 805 million for particle physics in FY 2009, nearly $ 117 million more than this year's allocation.

Despite the studious modesty of that hope, a handful of clinical trials involving Tregs in transplantation and autoimmune diseases are already underway, and the coming years are poised to see a crop of promising clinical leads for cancer treatment.

Despite 25 years of intense research and thousands of clinical trials of promising new cancer therapies, there has been only scattered progress in treatment since President Richard Nixon declared the «War on Cancer» in December 1971, report two researchers from the University of Chicago in a Special Article in the May 29, 1997 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine.

May 29, 1997 News from the cancer front: glass remains half empty Despite 25 years of intense research and thousands of clinical trials of promising new cancer therapies, there has been only scattered progress in treatment since President Richard Nixon declared the «War on Cancer» in December 1971, report two researchers from the University of Chicago in a Special Article in the May 29, 1997, issue of the New England Journal of Medicine.

Despite ongoing delays, the JWT promises to take us even closer to the edge of time and space, delivering a new perspective on some of the oldest galaxies in the universe, potentially just a few hundred million years after the big bang.

Despite promising earlier this year that he would eventually stop, Liam Neeson has just signed on to star in another one of those movies that he makes these days.

16 years on and despite the numerous monster movie incarnations (Pacific Rim), Gareth Edwards will resurrect the beast for what is promised to be the mother of all monster movies.

In the median state, less than half of all teachers are expected to work long enough to vest in their retirement plan — meaning that despite big spending and promises, less than half of all public - school teachers, on average, will ever receive retirement benefits for their years on the job (see Figure 3).

Despite promises to be internationally benchmarked, Common Core reneged on its promise and placed Algebra 1 firmly into the high school, reversing a decade of progress across the land and putting us one or more years behind our international competitors.

Despite Congress's promised funding of IDEA at 40 percent of the average per - pupil cost, special education funding has declined in recent years down to less than 16 percent in FY 2013.

No matter how you measure it, the Renewal Program isn't helping kids, despite de Blasio's promise of a «bold» plan with «profound impact» backed by a «major investment» — almost a billion dollars by 2019 — that will «shake the foundations» of NYC's school system and «turn every Renewal school into a successful school» within three years or he would shut it down.

Despite these promising results, nearly 60 percent of 4 - year - olds in the United States are not enrolled in publicly funded preschool programs and more than one - third are not enrolled in any preschool program.

As the Hechinger Report has reported this school year, Mississippi routinely rates low when it comes to child welfare and education indicators, despite some promising programs and pockets of success.

It was late last year that the long awaited Alfa Romeo Stelvio SUV finally arrived, looking like a Giulia on stilts and promising plenty of driving dynamism despite -LSB-...]

Unfortunately, there were still a number of kinks to work out with the idea, and despite the promise of «seeing a slab of Australia for free», those six weeks ended up being among the most expensive in all my years of full - time travel.

Despite shifting their focus to the Switch, Nintendo is still making good on their promise of continued support for the 3DS with many great games slated for release towards the end of this year as wel...

Despite Nintendo promising to bring back the NES Classic Edition next year, and to manufacture enough SNES Classic Editions to meet demand, both consoles are still hard to come by ahead of the looming Christmas deadline.

But despite promising several years of battery life in the manual, the console was notorious for losing people's save games.

Despite the musical chairs going on behind the scenes, the developer promised us the game by March 18 of this year before pushing that date back to April 26.

Africa is one of the most sophisticated, diverse and promising emerging markets in the world today, but despite its seemingly buoyant economy in the last few years, persistent political tensions and economic instability remains a key concern for the African legal community.