Sentences with phrase «u.s. lack of progress»

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«While communities like Englewood have been plagued by crime, poverty, and a severe lack of opportunity, there is in fact a long - term movement underway to revitalize these neighborhoods and return the story to one of hope, resilience and progress,» said Rodney Hines, director for community investments for Starbucks U.S. Retail Operations.

Now, Puerto Ricans on the island and U.S. mainland are feeling angry and the lack of progress and they are organizing to demand help for Puerto Rico.

Separately, U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer issued his own statement that read in part: «While we have made progress on some of our efforts to modernize NAFTA, I remain concerned about the lack of headway.

The congressman blamed «dysfunction in the U.S. Senate» for the lack of progress addressing priorities this year.

That program was established by NOAA in 2009, in part as a response to the pummeling the U.S. received from a number of hurricanes during the early years of that decade and the relative lack of progress made in improving forecasts up to that point.

Before these standards were completed, however, the contract was terminated by the U.S. DOE for lack of satisfactory progress, reflecting differences in perceptions about what constitutes appropriate standards in English language arts.

There are large numbers of schools, teachers, and disadvantaged students who will be affected by this» lack of progress, which will continue a trend in American education for the last 16 years, as the U.S. slips steadily further behind the world's leaders in education.

For the most part the critical mass welcomed this return to realism and their passive disregard for homegrown modernism had knock - on effect; lack of attention led to public's lack of understanding, constituting what Davis would call the «cultural monopoly» he saw to be taking place in the U.S. Genuine efforts had been made to incorporate new formal elements and meanings into art but this progressive aesthetic spirit had eventually waned in the face of cultural provincialism, which was being «exploited... at the expense of progress.»

The onus will be placed on the next U.S. president to act, Gore said, pointing to the (obvious) lack of progress made by the current administration in moving beyond the Kyoto Protocol.