Sentences with phrase «despite considerable effort»

The defendant employer responded that it had every right to terminate her employment since, despite considerable effort to assist her in meeting the standards expected of her position, she simply failed to do so and had to be let go.

And yet, despite considerable effort on the part of schools, communities, and states over the past 20 years, little progress has been made.

However, despite the considerable effort and resources allocated to this priority over recent decades, there is little evidence that gaps have been reduced.

China has had little success in projecting «soft power» (despite considerable effort and investment), and has far less recent experience than the U.S. in managing global affairs.

Despite considerable efforts, both in the scientific community and in industry, the blue LED had remained a challenge for three decades.

Despite considerable efforts, Sadler and Bianco struggle to animate their two - dimensional characters.

Despite considerable efforts by veterinarians and scientists to find effective treatments, the outcome for dogs with hemangiosarcoma has changed very little over the past few decades.

Despite considerable efforts to find effective treatments, the outcome for dogs with hemangiosarcoma has changed very little over the past 30 years.

But statistics show that despite considerable efforts, these policies and measures may not suffice to achieve the Kyoto target or the more stringent national target for CO2 reductions.

Not exact matches

Whilst missionary efforts met with considerable success in the Americas, Australasia and Sub-Saharan Africa, Christianity, despite considerable support in the Philippines and South Korea, remains very much a minority religion in most Asian and North African countries, where the great faiths of Hinduism, Buddhism and Islam have been long established.

Landfill remaining the main destination for municipal waste disposal (46 percent of total waste is landfilled on average according to environmental NGOs) despite considerable policy effort by EU authorities to increase waste separation and deter waste production at the source.

That is despite some of those countries (like Greece) having endured some considerable pain in their efforts to tackle their deficits.

This is despite the fact that school districts invest considerable resources in professional development in an effort to improve teacher performance.

Or that several states have seen considerable efforts to leave NCLB behind, despite the sizable financial blow doing so could entail.

Despite the number of M6 buyers who indulge in regular trackdays inevitably being quite small, M division has invested some considerable time and effort in creating a set of engine and chassis revisions ostensibly for just that purpose.

Despite an ever increasing number of books in the public domain, there haven't been considerable efforts by contemporary publishers to render this, fully compatible with today's technology and requirements.

Moreover, despite broad bipartisan support, the SRCA is still yet to get a floor vote in either chamber of Congress after three years of considerable effort.

It's worth noting that, despite our best efforts, we were unable to verify the authenticity of these hands - on images — so they should be taken with a considerable pinch of salt.