Sentences with phrase «considerable progress as»

While we've made considerable progress as a nation in the past century and a half to end the evils of slavery and segregation, we still have a long way to go to ensure that all of our nation's children are afforded the opportunity for an unfettered start and a fair chance that Lincoln talked about.

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A spontaneous renewal of humane culture will, of course, face considerable opposition as the idolaters of progress recognize the full scope of its nonconformity.

The theory can also mean that a divine being intervenes to micromanage or introduce specific designs into a world that would otherwise fail to achieve key steps of progress — as if to say: you've got a bicycle, but some intelligent intervention is required to turn it into a motorcycle, since this won't happen automatically; or, you've got a light - sensitive spot, but an external operation of considerable dexterity is required to transform this into a functional eye.

«This project is timely as Nigeria makes her journey out of recession and the economy continues to show considerable progress.

Other advances include better treatment for specific cancers such as Hodgkin's disease and testicular cancer, much better pain control, growing knowledge of the virology and of the biochemistry of cancer — knowledge that has improved treatment for many other diseases including AIDS — and considerable progress in medical imaging.

Unfortunately this is the main drawback of the gameplay as it's quite unimaginative and although there's a considerable amount of hours available to the player, each level feels quite the same with similar puzzles rebadged with different graphics such as requiring the players to stand on certain pressure points or use their abilities to progress in the «maze».

There is considerable evidence that during the past decade in Texas the needs of minority students have received increased attention as a result of an accountability system that demands that a school show not only overall progress, but also progress among its most disadvantaged charges.

Poor literacy is a considerable obstacle for progress in ALE as 758 million adults, including 115 million young people (aged 15 to 24), around the world can still not read and write a simple sentence.

The scope of the crisis is considerable: Results from the National Assessment for Educational Progress — a test that's also known as the Nation's Report Card — show almost no change in the achievement gap between white and black students over the past 50 years.

«Our analysis of data about the progress of these pupils shows that it frequently lags behind that of their peers and there is considerable variation nationally as to how well these pupils do.»

«The last government made considerable progress in reforming the school funding system and we are protecting the schools budget, which will rise as pupil numbers increase.»

Research shows that developmental education may discourage students or «divert» their academic progress, as students spend considerable time and money on developmental courses, but these credits do not count toward a college degree or transfer.

Evidence from the use of Lesson Study by hundreds of leading teachers working with «coasting schools» who used Lesson Study as a coaching approach to improve pupil progress in writing and mathematics at age 11 showed considerable impact year on year (Dudley, 2012).

As I make progress towards my own goal of publishing two books in 2013, I've been doing a considerable amount of research on the topic.

Each boss» attack pattern would change up as you progressed through the battle, whilst their considerable health bars could make for some lengthy showdowns.

Unfortunately this is the main drawback of the gameplay as it's quite unimaginative and although there's a considerable amount of hours available to the player, each level feels quite the same with similar puzzles rebadged with different graphics such as requiring the players to stand on certain pressure points or use their abilities to progress in the «maze».

So here as artist - in - residence he promises to infiltrate the Long Gallery with a work - in - progress scaffolding of TV monitors, record players and strip lighting titled A Considerable Extension In Time And An Insignificant Extension in Space.

«As a whole, the Government has made considerable progress in achieving its objectives of encouraging owner occupiers not to hold through company structures.

As a Linux user, nothing dismays me more than seeing no considerable amount of progress nearly five years after Valve announced SteamOS.

To a considerable extent this is true for all psychotherapy, not only as each session ends but, in the approach we advocate, by the formal review of progress that occurs over the course of working together, looking backward to how things began as well as looking forwards.

«The combined effort of 840 officers and staff from Ayrshire Police Division with improved knowledge, understanding and response will be considerable and we look forward to working with our partners and communities as we progress.»

if we can not acknowledge that there has been some progress then the support for the efforts, which are considerable, to address these issues in the community as a whole will not be there.

Investors have been most active in areas where considerable urban sprawl is underway, including Barrie, Innisfil and Bradford, where progress has driven prime development land prices up to as $ 100,000 an acre in some pockets, the report says.