Sentences with phrase «despite decades of progress»

Not exact matches

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.

Sharp - eyed reader Paul Marks spotted the following interesting paragraph in the Office of Science and Technology's Forward Look report on government spending on science: «Despite enormous progress over the past decade, software engineering still suffers from being too much of an art and not enough of a science and much remains to be done to establish it on a firmer scientific basis.»

Despite 50 years of progress, the software industry remains years — perhaps decades — short of the mature engineering discipline needed to meet the demands of an information - age society

Leukemia is a cancer of the blood or bone marrow that affects over 200,000 Americans and still kills thousands every year despite the great progress made over recent decades in developing effective treatments for many leukemia types.

The fact that overall funding progressivity remains low despite two decades of reforms suggests a troubling lack of progress on equitable funding of public schools.

Despite promises to be internationally benchmarked, Common Core reneged on its promise and placed Algebra 1 firmly into the high school, reversing a decade of progress across the land and putting us one or more years behind our international competitors.

Despite two decades of charter - school growth, the state's overall academic progress has failed to keep pace with other states.

Despite two decades of charter - school growth, the state's overall academic progress has failed to keep pace with other states: Michigan ranks near the bottom for fourth - and eighth - grade math and fourth - grade reading on a nationally representative test, nicknamed the «Nation's Report Card.»

«The data suggests that — despite what is arguably the most remarkable decade of academic progress of any school system in history — we haven't really seen much change in demand from middle class community to enroll their children in public schools,» Kleban said.

Despite the complexities and challenges of addressing achievement gaps, educators have been making steady progress in the last few decades.

Despite having two extra doors and four decades of technological progress than the 928, the Panamera is in many ways a modern - equivalent — an excellent luxury car that eagerly turns into an absolute yet wholly controllable monster.

And for almost a decade, one browser maker held back technical progress in web development by not fully, reliably supporting web standards: this is no different than the Kindle entirely ignoring the recommendations of the International Digital Publishing Forum, despite Amazon being a paying member.

The image at right is from a gallery of graphics describing some of the issues that persist despite extraordinary progress against water pollution problems in recent decades.

The Need: «Despite that amazing success and decades of environmental progress, we find ourselves facing an even more dire, almost existential, set of global environmental challenges, from loss of biodiversity to climate change to plastic pollution, that call for action at all levels of government,» said Denis Hayes.

Despite progress during the past decades, only 50 % of single - parent households headed by the mother have child support agreements from the father, and only 50 % of those receive the full amounts due.

Yet despite all of this, what data exists suggests that we have seen only slow improvements in some areas of health status and no progress on others over the past decade.

(13 April 2018) Despite huge gains in child well - being during the MDG era, progress for adolescents — children in the second decade of life — is still lagging behind.

NEWS: Two Decades of Progress for NJ Kids Despite rising poverty, child well - being improves in many areas

In fact, despite some successes the overall data remains bleak and shows only slow improvements in some areas of health status, with no progress on others over the past decade.