Sentences with phrase «staggering lack of»

The result has been a staggering lack of coordination in service delivery, inadequate policy development and program evaluation, and a surfeit of redtape — all of which have contributed to poor outcomes and a lack of capacity to take corrective action when things go wrong.

Considering that we live in the Information Age, that shows a staggering lack of education.

This is, as usual, a staggering lack of imagination, and an insistence upon maintaining annual tests because of properties they do not possess.

Vernon Kay kicked - off proceedings, extolling the virtues of great teachers and the staggering lack of social mobility in the UK which means young people from poorer background have just a one in three chance of getting good GCSEs.

«Yet, reading through this «balanced» and «fair» review, the first thing that struck me was the staggering lack of engagement with empirical research.

«There is a staggering lack of transparency and a lack of accountability,» Bellotti says.

Fox has already shown a staggering lack of understanding of the fundamentals of trade and EU law

Staggering lack of LOGIC.

Not exact matches

Zombie - God Bippy is staggering around looking for brains, ignoring the religious people because of their lack.

Honestly, I almost wish we'd lose out on 4th, this lack of ambition, lack of urgency is staggering.

Dude, your responses are fairly staggering in their lack of intellect.

«it was nevertheless a staggering achievement which was firmly rooted in sport's eternal verities of desire, spirit, honest effort, sound organisation and inspired light touch leadership, albeit liberally sprinkled with the magic dust of goals, guile and superhuman endeavour as supplied by the outstanding triumvirate of, respectively, Vardy, Mahrez and Kante» so we lack all of these stuffs in our team that's why we win nothing, so you have answers but you are just being deluded.

There have been 13 Olympics since, and each has left a legacy of unforgotten moments and splendid heroes: Dorando Pietri staggering to a disqualification in 1908; Aileen Riggin, at 12, winning the dive in Antwerp; Jim Thorpe, who astonished the Swedes with his athletic feats by day and his revelry by night; the taciturn little Finn, Paavo Nurmi, who won seven long - distance championships; Jesse Owens, whose four gold medals in Berlin brought a scowl to the face of Adolf Hitler; and Emil Zatopek who, lacking natural speed, became by will the most marvelous of modern long - distance runners.

The fact that we are still reeling away from Alex Ferguson and his title - winning 2012/13 squad tells a story of a lack of nous at United at the boardroom level that has allowed the club to stagnate despite the staggering wealth amassed in the same period.

After becoming frustrated about his lack of progress at first City and then Chelsea, Sturridge did not begin to consistently showcase the staggering ability first glimpsed during his teenage years until he joined Liverpool in January 2013.

The lack of common sense used during the match was also staggering, such as allowing Southampton to take four or five minutes out of the game as Jose Fonte had his head bandaged two yards away from the edge of the pitch, when he could have easily stepped off and not disrupted the flow of the game.

Survey of probation workers reveals staggering level of distrust in the justice secretary and suggests a dangerous lack of morale in the service

«This is a staggering sum of money and just exposes the chaos and lack of planning that has surrounded the Coalition Government's cuts to the BSF programme.

The staggering number of teachers with STEM class assignments outside their field of expertise certainly doesn't help: In middle schools, 51.5 percent of math teachers and 40 percent of science teachers lack a major or minor in the subject.

A staggering 70 % of those polled said they would break up with someone who they thought lacked ambition.

With a staggering membership base of over 760,000 users from all over the world, the website had been the second largest bisexual dating site (as BiCupid is the Top 1) in the past but is now losing its sheen mainly because of its obsolete user interface and lack of state of the art options that are available in modern websites.

I reckon the reason MH hasnt taken off in the Western market is simply due to Lack of infrastructure (wifi hot spots etc) and the simple fact that population in Japan is staggering compared to the actual size of the country.

The reality behind food insecurity — people's inability to access food regularly whether through economic constraints or lack of availability — is staggering.

The competition was launched as research carried out by Dulux revealed that a staggering two thirds of schools lacked the funding to make basic refurbishment improvements, with an overwhelming majority of teachers and head teachers considering the school environment to affect pupils» academic life.

The challenges facing rural schools are staggering — concentrated poverty, inadequate access to health care services, early childhood education and after - school programs, ballooning class size, high transportation costs, teacher shortages, and lack of broadband access.

A recent California State University study reported a staggering statistic: 1 in 10 of its students is homeless, meaning these students lack a fixed, regular, and adequate nighttime residence, and 1 in 4 has experienced food insecurity during their time at school.

One of the saddest things about adult illiteracy and ESL language learners is not the staggering rates of adults who are still classified as functionally illiterate, or the numbers of immigrants who may learn to speak a language with some level of comfort and fluency but never develop basic reading skills; it's the quality — or lack thereof — of instructional materials for adult learners.

Examples of the lack of good corporate governance that are blatantly hostile to shareholders abound and include: (i) the retention of a staggered board, (ii) the adoption of a poison pill without shareholder approval and at the extremely low trigger of 10 %, and (iii) the refusal by the Board to allow shareholders to vote on whether our offer was sufficient.

Early signs of ethylene glycol toxicity are lack of coordination, staggering and other signs of inebriation.

Lack of spay and neuter programs and economic hardship are some of the reasons that account for the staggering number of homeless animals on the island.

In such a short space of time for a relatively expensive peripheral is a staggering achievement and to piss all over the technology shows breaktaking lack of respect.

A lot of gamers haven't taken to the Xbox One for a list of reasons: Lack of quality games (but that ranges from person to person), staggering price point compared to the competitors, built - in DRM restriction that plagues gamers who don't have 24/7 internet access and can't do the update, and the Kinect being bundled and forced upon the gamer for the console to even work are among the reasons.

The lack of connection to nature is staggering and very tragic.

Parallels with lack of rigor in the climate science community are staggering.

The Atlantic article makes this staggering claim: «[t] hose who stay in rural Iowa are often the elderly waiting to die, those too timid (or lacking in educated) to peer around the bend for better opportunities, an assortment of waste - toids and meth addicts with pale skin and rotted teeth, or those who quixotically believe, like Little Orphan Annie, that «The sun'll come out tomorrow» «(typo the Atlantic's).

Despite the federal judiciary, years ago, taking the lead by example, as well as «motivating» states to provide better in court interpreters, the lack of qualified court interpreters is still staggering.

It's got its good points, like the Xbox - style staggered analog stick layout and one piece d - pad, but the lack of a headphone jack and other key DualShock 4 features might be a dealbreaker.

«Even considering the lack of an Android version of Clash of Clans in its first six months, the difference is staggering — and shows how far not just Supercell, but the ability of free - to - play mobile titles to generate revenue from in - app transactions, have come in four short years,» Nelson wrote.

The lack of knowledge and lack of respect between us as agents is staggering.