Sentences with phrase «despite growing support»

Despite growing support from the women's art community, which she was so instrumental in building, Chicago struggled to show her work, gain the respect of male colleagues, and overtly explore feminist content.

This time, 15 backed the ban, while eight rejected it and four abstained — which, despite the growing support, is still short of a qualified majority.

Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito hedged throughout the year, despite growing support among her members.

And despite growing support - from India to Sierra Leone - for publicly funded health and education systems modelled on our own, the Conservatives are pushing for private sector provision in DfID's new private sector strategy.

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«Despite the continued support of attacks by activist hedge funds by the Chair of the SEC, and many «Chicago school» academics who continue to rely on discredited statistics, there is growing recognition by institutional investors and prominent «new school» economists of the threat to corporations and their shareholders and to the economy of these attacks -LSB-...]

And Americans» support for meritocratic principles has remained stable over the last two decades despite growing economic inequality, recessions, and the fact that there is less mobility in the United States than in most other industrialized countries.

In 2015, the Prentice plan did not invest any new funding in FCSS despite advocacy by volunteer organizations concerned about a lack of resources to support Alberta's growing cities and communities.

Despite having healthy supports in place at both the Federal and Provincial programming levels, in the form of R&D tax credits, grants, loans and collaborative agreements, it's our ability to grow Canada's R&D - intensive sectors that proves weak.

Karen Lebacqz said that despite the growing numbers of single persons, the church has given little attention or support to their sexuality, and a new ethic is desperately needed.

Despite growing opposition in recent times, there will be huge support, respect and gratitude from a large crowd.

Ancelotti has faced growing criticism from sections of the club's support this season, despite leading Real to the Club World Cup in December and presiding over a club record of 22 successive wins.

Despite the fact that young fathers rarely receive support from professionals or wider society, early fatherhood can trigger growing maturity and promote personal growth and social responsibility (Kiselika, 2008).

«The number of farm to school projects has grown by leaps and bounds in recent years, despite the lack of support and frequent resistance from Food and Nutrition Service,» says Andy Fisher of the Community Food Security Coalition.

Despite widely held misconceptions about hypnosis, a growing body of research supports this ancient practice as an effective tool in the treatment of a variety of issues, from anxiety, creativity, sleep, chronic pain, concentration, natural child birth, weigh loss, phobias, ect.

«Despite growing public support for this measure, the Coalition Government continues to ignore this and any other strategy which involves targeting those whose recklessness and greed caused the financial crisis in the first place.»

David Cameron still enjoys strong support from Tory members, despite the growing rebelliousness of Tory MPs.

Forty of the Council's 51 members have signed onto the bill, but it has languished without receiving a floor vote — adding it to a growing list of bills with strong support among council members that have failed to move forward under Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito, a close de Blasio ally, despite promises of more democratic Council rules reform.

Despite support from Ms. Mark - Viverito, there seemed to be little political will from the City Council at large, where many members benefit from the endorsements of unions and where some grew deeply frustrated with calls and ads from animal groups, to pass a ban.

SYRACUSE, N.Y. - Despite growing criticism of Gov. Andrew Cuomo's property tax freeze, Sen. John DeFrancisco said today he thought some version of state - supported property tax relief would be in New York's 2014 - 15 budget.

Gostin explains why, despite the label of «Nanny Bloomberg,» the mayor's controversial soda portion limit makes sense: «The mayor relied on science to support a creative, untested strategy: sugary drinks deliver empty calories, with a direct relationship to obesity, while portion sizes have grown exponentially.

NSF has traditionally received bipartisan support from Congress, which has translated into growing budgets despite the overall pressure to trim federal spending.

Despite the growing use of online support groups such as those on Facebook to help curb substance abuse, attending traditional face - to - face meetings may continue to be more effective for people trying to maintain sobriety, according to research presented at the American Psychological Association's 123rd Annual Convention.

Despite continued symptoms, with medical support, the children grow and develop normally, at least to the age of 12.

Yet the state, despite its eagerness to persuade the farmers to grow hybrids, provides them with very little technical support.

Never - the-less, the attacks on saturated fats and coconut oil persist despite the growing evidence that supports the healthy virtues of high - fat dieting.

According to Eric Schmidt's, the chief executive, statement, the company would become the leader of the Chinese internet market despite the challenges, such as censorship issues and fierce competition from the largest home - grown rival called Baidu.com.What is more, Google's Vice President and «Chief Internet Evangelist», Vint Cerf, supported the company's decision to expand its activities in China, although it should have complied with the Chinese government's demands to censor information.

Ravitch also falsely claims that there is «no new evidence to support» school choice despite a large and growing body of high - quality research that says otherwise.

Despite growing recognition that teacher - leaders can play a vital role in supporting the development of their peers, little empirical research has focused on selecting teacher - leaders.

Despite the continued negative results from studies like Vanderbilt's, a growing number of Americans support merit pay for educators.

Despite strong public support for greater parental options in choosing quality schools, charter schools have not grown without controversy and opposition.

The best professional learning for teachers helps them acquire, practice, and apply new skills to better serve their students.2 But despite annual investments of $ 18 billion by federal, state, and local agencies into professional learning for educators, many teachers still do not receive the kind of professional learning that helps them grow and improve their practice.3 Less than one - quarter of teachers say that they have changed their instruction as a result of professional learning, likely in part due to the lack of a consistent professional learning strategy across states and school districts.4 Learning Forward, a nonprofit association dedicated to supporting professional learning for educators, contends that the current state of professional learning is one of «inertia.»

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Despite this growing need, the Highway Trust Fund, which provides most of the federal support for state transportation projects, is on track to start bouncing checks as early as August.

He does support cutting down on the federal budget (meaning federal education programs); for instance, he once complained, «An increasing deficit and an ever - growing 19 trillion dollar national debt, despite a volley of tax increases, prove this administration is committed to spending us into oblivion.»

«It's been a great way to connect with other artists, support a good cause, and have fun re-living a game that each of us grew up loving despite our different backgrounds.»

Despite many believing the removal to be a mistake, the exclusivity of Kingdom Hearts 2.8 to Sony's console did support to the growing theory that the upcoming game might not make an appearance on Xbox after all.

After the war — and despite being supported as an artist in the GDR — he grew frustrated at the limitations put upon him, and after seeing Jackson Pollock's work in documenta II, he and his first wife Ema fled to the West.

ExxonMobil predicts that wind and solar will grow about 11 percent a year «supported by subsidies and related mandates», despite the fact that grid - connected solar power grew by 60 percent per year from 2000 to 2004.

«Despite the growing evidence in support of AGW, these blogs continue to aggressively deny the causes and / or the projected effects of AGW and to personally attack scientists who publish peer - reviewed research in the field with the aim of fomenting doubt to maintain the consensus gap.»

Behind their season of hard training and the ever - growing support of fellow Douglas students, the team earned the top seed once playoff time arrived, despite being placed in one of the most difficult Districts in the region.

Despite strong support from the community, Segwit2X grew increasingly problematic, until eventually a Twitter poll revealed that 84 percent of voters were not convinced of the benefits of the planned software update.

Despite the fact that Android users are rapidly growing in the smartphone market, Apple has not provided a support on its first smartwatch to get paired with an Android smartphone.

Despite the growing number of complaints, Google has not given a concrete solution to the issue, with the only response coming from the search engine giant asking affected persons to contact the Google Store support team.

Despite its novelty factor that's still attractive to many consumers, the only seemingly reliable way for the Google Home ecosystem to grow its user base in the long term is to continue diversifying its home automation capabilities, which is where support for third - party products and services comes into play and is an aspect of the platform that Google has been carefully nurturing in recent times.

Despite chronic levels of unemployment in many areas, industries in the same locations are struggling to find enough highly skilled individuals to fill the critical vacancies necessary to support and grow their operations.

There is a growing evidence base in support of the effectiveness of acupuncture for a range of musculoskeletal conditions11, 12; however, despite its widespread use by participants13 there has been limited evidence for acupuncture as an effective treatment option for depression.14 Patients with strong preferences for psychotherapy or counselling for depression are not likely to engage in antidepressant treatment, 15 yet the evidence for counselling as a treatment for depression is limited16 despite widespread utilisation in primary care in the UK, with around 90 % of general practices providing on - site counselling services.17 To address this evidence gap, a randomised controlled trial Acupuncture, Counselling or Usual Care for Depression (ACUDep) compared acupuncture or counselling to usual care as treatments for primary care patients with ongoing depression.18 The results showed that acupuncture and counselling were clinically effective in reducing depression in the short to medium term.

Yet despite a growing body of research supporting this form of care, it often appears to be put in the «too hard» basket of governments and policy makers.

Furthermore, despite growing empirical support for the Family Stress Model, such model is not static and more empirical evaluations are needed to identify risk and protective factors for changing the family stress process.15