Sentences with phrase «at a glacial pace in»

But it has yet to do so and, in general, adoption of fishing regulations proposed in the Commission's scientific working groups has moved at a glacial pace in the face of opposition from the powerful fishing industry.

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He left in 2006 to become the executive director of the Mountain Conservation Trust, a tiny outfit in Jasper, where, says Keller, «land conservation moved at a glacial pace.»

Now that Fed «tapering» of QE is a process the markets are starting to price in and the fact that this tapering will continue at some pace until QE is ultimately terminated, glacial or otherwise, again it's not just US assets that will be affected in the rhythmic dance.

The casual fan isn't tuning in to watch Virginia — which continues to prove year in and year out that it's one of the best programs in the country — suffocate its opponent at a glacial pace.

Although policy implementation often moves at a glacial pace, moving through committee after committee, I am optimistic about positive change within the UC system in the near future.

Here in Chicago, spring is moving in at a glacial pace.

«Winter Sleep», on the other hand, moves at a glacial pace and resembles a newly - discovered play by Chekhov, albeit one set in the stunning vistas of Turkish plains of Anatolia.

These elements contribute to Platform «s grand achievement, the monumental experience of time: how periods in one's life seem to pass at a glacial pace until they inexplicably vanish, and one has slipped irreversibly into a new stage of being.

The zombie plague here moves at such a glacial pace that the authorities can quarantine the infected and, in cases like Maggie's, allow victims to spend time with their families before they have to be terminated.

Problem is, progress in the dog fancy moves at a glacial pace.

Of course, this gold is unlockable in game, but at a glacial pace, which entices players to use real money to pay for packs of gold.

In probing the fast - changing ice sheets of Antarctica and Greenland, Gordon Hamilton of the University of Maine exemplified the qualities in the rare breed of scientists, engineers and field staff willing to go to extremes — literally — to help clarify the pace at which seas will rise as warming glacial ice meltIn probing the fast - changing ice sheets of Antarctica and Greenland, Gordon Hamilton of the University of Maine exemplified the qualities in the rare breed of scientists, engineers and field staff willing to go to extremes — literally — to help clarify the pace at which seas will rise as warming glacial ice meltin the rare breed of scientists, engineers and field staff willing to go to extremes — literally — to help clarify the pace at which seas will rise as warming glacial ice melts.

Alarmed at the pace of change to our Earth caused by human - induced climate change, including accelerating melting and loss of ice from Greenland, the Himalayas and Antarctica, acidification of the world's oceans due to rising CO2 concentrations, increasingly intense tropical cyclones, more damaging and intense drought and floods, including glacial lakes outburst loods, in many regions and higher levels of sea - level rise than estimated just a few years ago, risks changing the face of the planet and threatening coastal cities, low lying areas, mountainous regions and vulnerable countries the world over,

The vulnerable nations declared that they are, «Alarmed at the pace of change to our Earth caused by human - induced climate change, including accelerating melting and loss of ice from Greenland, the Himalayas and Antarctica, acidification of the world's oceans due to rising CO2 concentrations, increasingly intense tropical cyclones, more damaging and intense drought and floods, including Glacial Lakes Outburst Floods, in many regions and higher levels of sea - level rise than estimated just a few years ago, risks changing the face of the planet and threatening coastal cities, low lying areas, mountainous regions and vulnerable countries the world over...»

The use of the term «collapse,» which connotes an imminent calamity, rather than a long, relatively slow process (glaciers melting at, literally, a glacial pace) generated quite a bit of chatter in the climate journalism community, but in interviews, scientists defended the word as apt for this situation.

Major changes in global albedo move at a glacial pace.

On a basic level, however, the experiment seeks to address what founder Rob Hopkins sees as a source of frustration in the environmental movement: Personal action feels like a drop in the bucket, while governments often move at a glacial pace.

Reuters: While the climate change discussion in Washington is moving at a glacial pace, nature is responding to climate change at record speed.

Coming as I do from a city where the bike lanes are narrow, full of holes and added at a glacial pace to to endless politics, being back in New York with my bike is a revelation, this city changes so quickly.

These people can often see the need for change, but despair of the pace of change in many law firms, pointing out that the culture and consensual nature of partnership often make decisions glacial when they need to be made at the speed of the digital world we now live in.

However, Bitcoin transactions are painfully slow, with transactions occurring at the glacial pace (at least in the world of finance) of multiple hours for each transaction in some cases.

It should be no surprise then that in the four years the Close the Gap Steering Committee have been calling for Justice targets that the Federal Government is moving at a glacial pace.