Sentences with phrase «decades of progress in»

The truth is that, after decades of progress in closing the outcome gaps between white students and students of color, the disparities are just as profound today as they were in the 1950's when the landmark case of Brown vs. Board of Education was decided.

«New York will not stand by and allow the federal government to undo decades of progress in housing rights,» Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who previously led HUD, said in a statement.

«The measure reverses decades of progress in expanding the reach of equality in North Carolina by pre-empting local anti-discrimination laws.»

Decades of progress in opening up foreign markets to American - made goods could quickly vanish.

«It is a tragedy that after a decade of progress in reducing the rate of teenage pregnancy, we are witnessing a substantial increase in the number of teens who are getting pregnant.

Not exact matches

In some industries, you have to fight against decades of inertia and sluggish progress; in others, you have to fight traditionalism and entrenched modes of thinkinIn some industries, you have to fight against decades of inertia and sluggish progress; in others, you have to fight traditionalism and entrenched modes of thinkinin others, you have to fight traditionalism and entrenched modes of thinking.

He said that by the later part of the next decade, Facebook would see notable progress in areas like connecting more of the world's population to the internet, the role of artificial intelligence in Facebook products and the accessibility and quality of virtual reality and augmented reality.

For them, the international celebration of sports is also an affirmation of the immense economic progress South Korea has undergone in the last six decades.

McDonald's (MCD), which is suffering through one of its worst years in more than a decade, hinted at its investor meeting last week that it's looking to make progress in this department by simplifying ingredients.

The Passmark recent uptick — AMD has increased its share of the tests on the site for four quarters in a row — marks substantial progress after a decade of declining market share.

THE URGENCY OF NOW: VICE PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN AND THE FIGHT AGAINST CANCER — A KEYNOTE CONVERSATION Under Vice President Biden's leadership, the White House Cancer Moonshot Task Force catalyzed novel, innovative and impactful collaborations among twenty government agencies, departments and White House offices and over seventy private sector entities designed to achieve a decade's worth of progress in five years in the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of canceOF NOW: VICE PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN AND THE FIGHT AGAINST CANCER — A KEYNOTE CONVERSATION Under Vice President Biden's leadership, the White House Cancer Moonshot Task Force catalyzed novel, innovative and impactful collaborations among twenty government agencies, departments and White House offices and over seventy private sector entities designed to achieve a decade's worth of progress in five years in the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of canceof progress in five years in the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of canceof cancer.

However, uncertainty remains elevated because of prospective policies that put at risk the progress made in recent decades to liberalize trade and foster economic integration.

In Myanmar, Asia's odd man out and a global pariah for decades, small signs of progress mean a lot.

Mitsubishi Motors is making slow but steady progress after a decade of recession woes in Japan and the U.S., corporate cover - ups and a failed sales campaign to offer «0 -0-0» financing for 0 percent down, 0 percent interest and $ 0 monthly payments for a...

Such a response is no longer valid in the light of the dramatic progress that has been made during the last decade in treating mental illness (see Chap.

In recent decades similar policies have been followed as peasants have been forced off their land for the sake of modernization and «progress».

The largely unopposed progress of the secular revolution in our country in recent decades was also the explanatory context of the first and main point of our Holy Father's parting speech to the British Bishops.

In the last decades various organizations have grown up on this basis, such as the Universal Religious Alliance, International Religious Peace Conference, World Parliament of Religions, World Congress for Free Christianity and Religious Progress, Union of All Religions, World Congress of Faiths, and Fraternity of Religious Mankind, founded by Rudolf Otto.

They do not have the sense of optimism and belief in progress that their parents and grandparents had during the course of the earlier decades.

This passage is steeped in the rot - from - within despair of the 1970s, and it is not a coincidence that King did his best work in the decade of Jonestown and The Exorcist, the Ayatollah Khomeini and The Late Great Planet Earth, the decade that stripped away the confident science - and - progress ethos of the 1950s and early 1960s.

«Since making that pledge [eliminating gestation crates by the year 2020], we have continued to survey our suppliers and communicate our desire that they be gestation - crate free by the end of this decade... As a next step, in 2014, we will ask our suppliers for annual progress reports on their efforts to comply with our plan so that we may evaluate where each supplier is with regard to reaching our goal.»

«During the past four decades, significant progress in rice research has taken place, where IRRI played a great role not only in supporting the development of new varieties but also by advancing knowledge.»

Chefs Stuart Brioza and Nicole Krasinsky of State Bird Provisions and the Progress have re-invigorated the Bay Area dining scene with what many consider to be the two best restaurants in decades.

And when you look back at the last decade, none of those youngsters have progressed in the way that they were hyped up to and yes I'm talking about the likes of Ramsey, Walcott, Jack Wheelchair and the Ox who all had a one season wonder of some sort, during one point in their Arsenal careers, thus far and We can't keep using this excuse for not buying ready made quality, which would instantly improve our chances of winning a major trophy or two, but No, Wenger wants to stick with a theory which clearly isn't working for us on the pitch, but he doesn't really care, as long as it works out well for saving the penny's and the pounds, in the place where it matters most for Arsenal fc, in the bank.

A decade of the same results and people are actually opposed to change in order to progress.

(unfortunately banks do nt buy in to we will win the league for the next decade to give out money) from the cub before they lend then shed lots of cash, and this unfortunately leads to clubs putting up there ticket prices to reflect the cost of big progress, so people sometimes have to realize that the club has to find a way to make club grow, and if they do nt have deep pocketed owners then they have to pitch to the banks for a loan, like we did all those years ago an we are just over the worst of it now we have paid our dues and are now getting back among the big boys again.

He was crucial in bringing these players in and I believe this is one of the reasons why Arsenal simply have not progressed as much as we should have in the last decade.

We won against palace but doesn't mean we won't miss Alexis, and the team needs much more fixing, gud D / M, a winger (Mahrez, Draxler) would do, center back and in summer a goal keeper, Cech has lost it, then get rid of dead wood (Giroud, Welbeck, Wilshere, Ramsay) they're average players, it's cuz of holding onto such that the team hasn't progressed for over a decade now

Despite the buckets of goals Salah has poured in this season, and the way he helped propel Liverpool to their deepest Champions League run in over a decade, Egypt remain underdogs to progress.

Van Praag, a candidate for the UEFA presidency in succession to disgraced and banned Michel Platini, said: «Despite significant progress over the past two decades violence still represents one of the most challenging issues football has to face.

The latest study published in June 2012, showed that high school students in the United States had significant progress over the past two decades in improving many youth risk behaviors associated with the leading cause of death in their age group, car crashes.

What «being a dad» means has undergone amazing transformation in the last 2 decades, and though there's been a lot of progress, there's still much work to be done.

TheObjectives Resolution, passed by the Constituent Assembly in 1949, laid the basis of an Islamic Republic where religiosity has progressed with every passing decade, culminating in its current violent form.

Most years Liberals and Liberal Democrats can be heard predicting that a political realignment is imminent, but this narrative has been disrupted in recent times, as decades of Liberal Democrat progress were reversed by catastrophic losses during the party's five years in government.

Whereas, we can take pride in the progress our state and nation have made in reinforcing women's rights over the decades and recognize that we have not yet crossed all thresholds to fulfilling our mission and quest for true equality; today we celebrate the economic, social, and political accomplishments of women, we honor the courageous women who have made extraordinary contributions to their countries and communities, and we pause to remember the struggles waged by generations of women who have led the fight for equality and justice; and

«We will continue to support governance and development in Afghanistan through the next decade - with # 178 million per year of development aid agreed until 2017 - to ensure that the progress made will not be lost.»

«All the progress our country has made in a decade fighting the scar of child poverty has been wiped out by the decisions of just one year.

And in three years my friends, you have reversed decades of decline and made dramatic and undeniable progress.»

Yet this will likely mean Westminster continuing to tolerate the disparities in Northern Ireland rather than walk back the progress achieved in England, Scotland and Wales over the course of the past decade.

BY SHELDON SILVER Each time I travel the streets of my hometown, I am inspired by the incredible progress we have made in rebuilding our Lower Manhattan community over this last decade.

At at the event on Wednesday, ESD President and CEO Howard Zemsky admitted upstate resurgence is a work in progress, saying there is «no silver bullet» to remedy four decades of economic decline.

Passage would jeopardize all of the progress that has been made in combating high property taxes in the past half - decade, he said.

«I do worry that a return to selection risks undermining the progress that we have seen over the course of the last decades in our schools by throwing something else into the debate», she said.

«The call right now has to be to the next generation to recognize that we are at a moment in time when this administration wants to roll back decades and decades of progress,» remarked City Comptroller Scott Stringer of Trump's policies.

In the past two decades he has been unimpressed with the pace of progress in the Hartford school system, and «a lot of that stems from the action, or lack thereof, from the board of education,» he saiIn the past two decades he has been unimpressed with the pace of progress in the Hartford school system, and «a lot of that stems from the action, or lack thereof, from the board of education,» he saiin the Hartford school system, and «a lot of that stems from the action, or lack thereof, from the board of education,» he said.

We have made progress lowering cases of lead poisoning in the past decade, but there is still much work to be done,» said Council speaker Corey Johnson, adding the package would «hopefully bring us to the point of eradicating childhood lead poisoning in New York City.»

It really has been an extraordinary six years in terms of progress, especially when you compare it to the preceding decades of stagnation.

He lamented the «slow motion» progress in domestic revenue mobilization over the past decade, noting that the focus of collection has not shifted from reforming legislation to implementing laws efficiently.

This outfit derives its resources from the liquidation of the Communist Party's assets built up over many decades by British workers (with a little help from their Soviet comrades) Therefore Progress can have no principled objection to another political tendency with impeccable socialist credentials and a much longer relationship with the organised labour movement to join them in the fraternal contest to shape the direction of Labour's policies and influence the selection of candidates.

Over the past decade, much progress has been made nationally to increase enrollment in afterschool programs — programs advocates say keep children safe, inspiring them to learn and supporting working families between the hours of 3 and 6 p.m. Vermont and Massachusetts have made the list of Top 10 States for Afterschool, prepared by Washington, D.C. - based After School Alliance.