Sentences with phrase «at the progress not»

Frank Gardner, school board president, speaking to reporters just before 10 p.m., said: «I «m very disappointed at the progress not being made.

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It's so easy to get bogged down in email and other people's to - do lists that when you look up at the end of the day you realize you didn't make any progress on the things that are most important.

Things have certainly progressed since John Madden first sat down with EA founder Trip Hawkins to discuss bringing the sport of football to the videogame space, which at the time wasn't the $ 74 billion global pastime it is today.

At the current rate of progress in closing the gap, states the report, «women will not receive pay equity until the year 2119.»

Yet somehow, in the U.S., large public companies can't seem to seem to make any progress at all in getting more women onto their boards of directors.

Before long, the company was making progress — though you wouldn't have known it from its stock price, which was stuck at about 70 cents.

Look at the long - term goal for your vision, and don't be discouraged by the lack of pay or progress you will inevitably experience initially.

When Trump won the election, Zuckerberg appeared to take a veiled jab at the president - elect by saying that «progress does not move in a straight line.»

«Once you get into a public company, if you're not throwing a lot of ability to do R&D, and to progress your technology at a very fast rate, then it's difficult to compete with [the tech giants],» he said.

About two years ago, the attorney at law firm Cooley took over as chair of the Partnership Nominating Committee, and the numbers weren't inspiring when it came to women's progress.

«The idea that you would deny protection for 50,000 people because there are a few bad apples who wouldn't be eligible for Temporary Protected Status in the first place, makes little to no sense,» Tom Jawetz, the vice president of immigration policy at the Center for American Progress, a liberal research organization told NBC News.

Thiam is a season ticket holder at Arsenal but has not attended a game since 2011 as a form of «silent progress.»

Trump's campaign chairman at the time, Paul Manafort, and his son - in - law, Jared Kushner, were not under Secret Service protection at that point either, as Think Progress noted on Sunday.

At a quick glance, it appears the market hasn't made any progress since it began struggling some nine weeks ago.

«Starting parallel talks on all issues at the same time, as suggested by some in the UK, will not happen,» Tusk said, while adding that the EU could assess as early as this autumn that Britain had made «sufficient progress» on the exit terms in order to open the second phase of negotiations, on future trade.

Given such obstacles, what's striking about democracy at Atlas isn't how far it has progressed — we're talking baby steps here — but how much the concept has already become part of the cultural woodwork.

«If we're going to make any sort of progress on winning this global war against Jihadism, we've got to focus on the ideology and win the battle of ideas, not just have a look at their propaganda tools and their frontmen and their symbols.»

«Great managers don't just tell employees what's expected of them and leave it at that; instead, they frequently talk with employees about their responsibilities and progress.

Likewise, you shouldn't have to make numerous callbacks to get the next order, says seasoned tea importer Al Sharif, owner of GlobeTrends, in Chatham, N.J. «If he's doing the right things in the right way on the phone,» and still not making progress, Sobczak agrees, «then I'd have to look at his product and marketing.»

It seemed so counterproductive to let everyone loose to do whatever they wanted, but I wasn't thinking about how my own startup team would never be able to make progress fast enough if I or my co-founder had to give orders and approval at every turn.

Your company, meanwhile, will make progress at a speed just not possible anywhere else.

• Because I just can't help myself: Following Tuesday's dust - up between Donald Trump and Univision anchor Jorge Ramos, I took a look at the progress of Trump's lawsuit vs. Univision (a PE - backed company that is in registration for an IPO).

He said: «The political class looks at Britain with some sort of bewilderment - about both the decision itself and about why progress in the negotiations doesn't happen.

Meet once a month at least to talk about goals and progress so there aren't any surprises.

Woodside, which holds a 30.6 per cent stake in the project off the Kimberley coast, said the joint venture decided not to progress with the floating LNG development at this time.

Hinting at Facebook's slow rate of progress tackling the problem, he said it won't be solved overnight.

Without digging too much into unsupported theory, one could at least conclude that there was a segment of the Bitcoin community that not only strongly disliked the Bitcoin XT project but possessed enough power to effectively impede the progress of Bitcoin XT.

Adam Seifer, co-founder and former CEO of Fotolog.com, one of the oldest and most popular photo sharing sites on the net, said: «I frequently find myself trying to convince partners, advisees, etc., that one of the biggest risks a start - up has is to not launch anything at all — to get so caught up in talking about what you're going to launch and so fixated on details that it feels like you're making progress when instead what you're really doing is moving asymptotically closer to something that doesn't ultimately matter as much as you think it does.»

Progress is knocking at the door, but pretty soon it's just going to kick the door down and march into the living room whether you like it or not.

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«Making progress on climate change and clean growth is hard and at times slow work, and we can't ignore the fact that Canada is still digging out from a deficit of previous federal inaction.

In almost every entrepreneur's experience, we find ourselves at one point or another, thinking that our businesses aren't progressing as well or as fast as we'd hoped.

At this point I don't see a lot of progress on a lot of these issues.

It would be nice if we could solve the problem of declining household formation rates through progress in gender politics; but, at the very least, it should not be our entire reliance.

-- You can convince your VCs of reviewing on a monthly base only those metrics that will measure progress more accurately at this stage, instead of all the financial data which is not relevant — You can set up the right financial systems / software to help measure basic financial information, and allow your VC access to additional financial figures every quarter or by request If none of these work: — You can try convincing your VC of using the right metrics as well as the financial ones, and to be measured by a mix of both — You can hire a seasoned part - time CFO who can at least free you of the hurdle of putting the numbers together

Public expectations for the pace of emissions reduction may disappoint some, but there are few who foresee a future where Canada is not making real progress in this area, at least over the coming 20 years.»

While not explicitly discussed at this Friday's meeting to assess the effect of the production - cap agreement and progress toward a balance between supply and demand, it will surely be on the agenda for the November semi-annual fooferah and bait and switch session.

Key findings for the North American (U.S. and Canada) workforce surveyed in the study include: • 51 % of employees are not happy at work • 45 % of employees trust their company's leadership • 61 % of employees don't know their company's mission • 57 % of employees are not motivated by their company's mission • 60 % of employees don't know their company's vision • 57 % of employees don't feel recognized for their progress at work • 61 % of employees don't know their organization's cultural values • 50 % of employees don't expect to be with their organization a year from now

While this isn't the first meeting between the leaders of its kind, sources say this one has been aimed at hashing out issues of leadership, the entity's technological progress and questions about what the priority should be for the Advanced Technology Group (ATG), the name of Uber's self - driving unit.

But if they don't strike a deal, or at least make serious progress toward one, things could go south fast — perhaps even escalating into a full - on trade war.

Progress has been made in recent weeks on these issues, but not enough to advance talks, the EU leaders concluded at their recent summit.

It is clear that it is not easy to rebuild an entire country and turn it into the new city of cyber punk technologies, but the initiative seems to be sustained by a series of circumstances that lay the foundations for the construction of something that could be at least an example for other countries that are willing to progress and attract private investment.

At Onboardly, we create Editorial Schedules that show: the progress of blog posts (complete, in progress, not started), the assigned authors, the post descriptions, the keywords for the posts, etc..

But at the end of the day, scale can only progress so far, because link building, ultimately, isn't a game of who can enter data the fastest, it's a game of who's the best at human interaction.

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While the law does not require that companies provide retirement plans, health plans, dental or vision plans, life insurance plans, or paid vacation time, many firms still provide these benefits and many candidates have come to expect at least some of these benefits, especially as they progress to the higher management positions,» said Andrew Challenger, vice president of global outplacement and executive coaching firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas, Inc..

I await confirmation from the researchers at Think Progress, but I suspect that the religious right's obsession with morays in particular and eels in general, derives not from the canonical Book of Job but from the non-canonical early church writing, The Epistle of Barnabas, which in verse 10:5 reads:

They have not arrived, so to speak to the place of peace and love, but are in the place, in their existence where they are supposed to be at this time and place, knowing they will progress into the future.

Just look at the progress that has been made in Africa with regard to the use of condoms preventing the spread of AIDs... do these GOP and «holy» people not see this?

Kant's approach may hold at bay the antihumanism of modern science (we are just clever animals in an insignificant corner of a vast cosmos), and it may serve as a bulwark against the ruthless rationality of economic efficiency and the putative demands of progress, but Michalson concludes that Kant's approach to the question of God makes theology less and not more plausible.