Sentences with phrase «despite earlier advances»

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As I mentioned earlier, business investment collapsed during the Great Recession, and its much - weaker - than - expected recovery since, despite historically low financing rates, has been a major source of disappointment in advanced economies.8

Twice he flew to Mississippi to speak for it despite his advancing age, and was chased by night riders — just as he had been 30 years earlier.

Most of the market currently lists Wichita St -3 despite early bettors taking the Shockers to advance to the Round of 64.

Despite Russia failing to advance to the knockouts of the Confederations Cup which is taking place on their home turf, Stanislav Cherchesov, who is in charge of the team, reckons that they have made a massive stride in terms of quality since the early elimination from the Euros.

Armed with the both the king cobra and Burmese python genome the team was able to show that, despite previous hypotheses that venom genes evolve «early» in the lineage leading to snakes, venom gene families do not duplicate early, in fact the study shows that the rapid and extensive expansion of functionally important venom toxin families is restricted to the venomous «advanced» snake lineage.

Roughly 30,000 people in the United States suffer from cystic fibrosis, and despite research advances, many still die in early adulthood — nearly all of chronic lung inflammation prompted by P. aeruginosa.

The fact that early humans advanced to the Americas despite continent - sized glaciers standing in the way has also prompted him to rethink the conventional wisdom that early humans, like other animals, migrated solely in search of food.

Blood cancer affects thousands of individuals each year, and despite impressive early therapeutic advances, cure rates for most blood cancers have reached a plateau.

Reynolds lays much of the blame on the push to end «social promotion» — the practice of advancing children to the next grade despite failing grades — that marked the Chicago Public Schools in the late 1990s and early 2000s.

While some of the affected dogs progressed to subsequent stages of disease with repeated examination, others did not progress beyond early stages despite advanced age.

Jed Ashforth, senior designer at Sony Computer Entertainment Europe, said that it's the virtual reality helmet is still in the early stages, despite how advanced it felt when we played with it.

However, despite the shock that this will be for many businesses there are opportunities too for these organisations to benefit from the levy, provided they seek to fully understand its implications early and plan well in advance.