Sentences with phrase «budging despite»

The seemingly intractable and intertwined problems of drug abuse, violence, poor education, broken families, and health disparities have endured for decades without budging despite plenty of efforts to help.

In fact, some evidence suggests that focusing on weight loss can actually be harmful to an overweight person's health by tying too much concern to how much weight they lose or keep off — and then making them relapse when the scale doesn't budge despite their best efforts.

The number of New Yorkers registered to vote over the last five months has barely budged despite the state's hotly contested April 19 presidential primaries, new figures show.

Because if you can't make the extra fat around your belly, hips, and thighs budge despite healthy eating and exercising, then you are already experiencing leptin resistance.

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Despite talk that Apple may never be the same, the company's shares barely budged.

Despite the Equal Pay Act, the gender pay gap persists; women are typically paid just 80 cents for every dollar paid to men — and that number has barely budged in a decade.

Despite spectacular gains in revenues and earnings, some companies» stocks have barely budged or even dropped.

And despite how Societal views have changed (mostly), the Church «Can't Budge», or that implies a wrong reasoning at some point in time, and «The Church can NEVER BE WRONG».

Despite raising their bid from an initial # 25m to # 40m, Man Utd have failed to make Tottenham budge for the England international, as they have reiterated in no uncertain terms throughout that he simply isn't for sale.

Ever since Sam Allardyce was booted out of the managerial hot - seat and replaced by Steve Kean I've not been at all interested in backing Blackburn, and I'm not budging on Saturday despite West Ham taking a fifth match losing streak into the game as Rovers look to build on their recent success over Bolton.

Despite budging once, Levy is unlikely to pay anybody upwards of the # 100,000 per week at White Hart Lane.

Through my hours of the «real thing» labor, despite my rolling, ball - sitting, standing, squatting, and so on and so forth, he wouldn't budge.

He has refused to budge on this, despite widespread public support — even among Republicans — for taxing the state's wealthiest residents at a higher rate.

The prime minister refused to budge on drug prohibition today, despite an influential committee of MPs demanding a rethink on Home Office policy.

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie is refusing to budge from his decision not to help the Astorino financially despite growing pressure from others in the GOP for Christie to lend a hand.

This year the bill hasn't budged from its initial committee since January, despite the clout of its primary sponsor, Senate Deputy Majority Leader John DeFrancisco (R - Syracuse).

Despite a 4.4 percent increase in state education aid, the city cut its contribution so spending on schools will hardly budge.

What's more, that number has barely budged over the past decade, despite a pledge by the unions to dramatically diversify their membership.

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Yet despite killing 40,000 women and men every year — a number that has not budged in decades despite gains in detection and treatment of early breast cancers — MBC shares something in common with the much rarer angiosarcoma: Medical researchers know surprisingly little about it.

Despite eating right and exercising, the scale wouldnt budge.

Maybe it comes and goes, depending on what you eat, and it's a bit squishy or just doesn't budge... despite your efforts at eating healthier.

Despite the trivial con, there is more to love with Tom Ford Lip Color Matte Black Dahlia: creamy texture, outstanding wear time (six hours sans eating), budge - proof, luxe feel and ambrosial fragrance.

And scores on the Program for International Student Assessment haven't budged in a decade, despite busy years for education reformers.

And despite the increases on the NAEP for DC as a whole, a demographic breakdown of DCPS's scores reveals that gaps seen in previous years haven't budged.

(Despite this, the EPA's fuel economy ratings for the Ford Mustang GT manual have not budged relative to 2017.)

My 4 GB internal memory was exhausted and despite Samsung adding the move to SD card feature in the latest Android 4.2.2 update, the damn game just wouldn't budge.

The major banks are offering five - year fixed mortgages for 6.25 % and the rates keep rising, despite the fact that the Bank of Canada overnight rate hasn't budged yet.

Despite increasing rates annually and a book filled with tee times, the top line just wasn't budging.

Despite best efforts to get the message out about the negative effects of obesity on pet health, research by the Association for Pet Obesity Prevention reveals that the number of obese pets has not budged in the last year.

No matter, because Sony isn't budging when it comes to dropping the price on their latest system, despite their being rumors to the contrary.

Still, despite the Irish - Catholic thing, I won't budge from parliamentary democracy and constitutional monarchy.

Despite all evidence to the contrary — namely, that world supplies of oil have not budged for some time even as prices have skyrocketed — Yergin argues in Saturday's Wall Street Journal that more and more oil will be available until «perhaps sometime around midcentury» at which point supply will hit a «plateau.»

Despite negative remarks by self - professed financial experts, the Bitcoin price isn't budging by any means.

This action kept the deal alive despite a seller who was not willing to budge and a buyer who was willing to walk.