Sentences with phrase «despite industry efforts»

The draft plan suggests that despite industry efforts to convince the public that the climate treaty would be costly to carry out and unfair to the United States, the treaty remains popular partly because environmentalists are winning the debate on the science.

«Despite industry efforts toward standardization, there is an absence of standards for industrial and B2B vendors.

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That is something I am proud of in an industry where, despite the best efforts of governing bodies, unethical decisions often affect patient care and hospital bottom lines.

«I work in an industry that despite so much effort to move in the right direction, lacks diversity.

«Because of the structure of the industry, the opaqueness of the private - equity model, the broadness of limited partnership agreements and the limited information rights of investors, we are perceiving violations despite the best efforts of investors to monitor their investments,» Bowden said.

The number of male calves being killed straight after birth is on the rise again, despite efforts by the dairy industry to end the practice known as «the dirty secret».

Addressing the root causes Despite industry's efforts, there are a number of structural issues in the chocolate supply chain.

This Philippe Coutinho effort sums up their efforts — unable to make the breakthrough despite plenty of industry.

Both bills represent significant improvement on the flawed rules we have in place today, despite the furious efforts of industry lobbyists to shape them to their special interests.

But even as mayor he has been unable to shut down the horse - carriage industry — despite extraordinary efforts that included a proposal to spend $ 25 million in taxpayer money to put the horses in Central Park.

Brooklyn's Airbnb black market is booming despite the city's best efforts to stamp out illegal rentals, according to an investigator hired by a hotel - industry group.

«It's the grassroots effort that's caused him to slow up again,» Avella said.But he believes that, despite the rallies and protests Cuomo will eventually approve fracking.A spokesman for the gas industry called the protests «gimmicks, stunts and street theater».

Even if the jobs are out there, with a few exceptions — such as the pharmaceuticals industry — those jobs are not on the radar of most scientists - in - training, despite our (Next Wave's) best efforts.

Dozens of utilities surveyed by Reuters earlier this year said they would continue to move away from coal despite efforts by the Trump administration to revive the coal industry.

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

Inside the program below you'll see the truth about why the food marketing industry is fooling you into buying the wrong products at the grocery store every week and making you pack on even more belly fat despite your efforts to get leaner.

Despite the rail industry's efforts to prevent new entrants into the market, 1920 ushered - in a major challenge to rail's hegemony.

Despite the best efforts of Democratic Governor Dannel Malloy's administration, the underhanded work of a number of school superintendents and the on - going lies being spewed by the corporate education reform industry to mislead and harass parents, Connecticut's Common Core SBAC Opt Out Movement made important progress this past week.

Lori Prokop, the vanity press huckster behind Book Millionaire, claims that the show isn't dead yet... despite the efforts of a secret publishing industry conspiracy to bring her down: «Book Millionaire continues to move forward, not at the pace we originally intended, but with the same excitement, focus and passion for helping others.

Despite its young age in the industry, Vook has already made impressive contributions to the ebook space, working with mainstays such as the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Fast Company to power their digitization efforts.

Plans to make Sony eReaders available for purchase from independent bookstores in time for this holiday season will not come to fruition despite the best efforts of the American Booksellers Association and others in the book industry.

After years scraping out a bare - bones income through traditional publishing (despite prodigious output and effort), Joe eventually got fed up with the whole industry and, somewhere around 2008, struck out on the DIY path.

But the growing popularity of index funds and ETFs has largely been the result of the appalling record of active management, and it has come despite the best efforts of the financial industry, not because of it.

Despite Government efforts, the industry is still full of slick advertising, phony rate quotes, and bait - n - switch offers from home mortgage loan companies and banks you probably don't want to really do business with.

Eighteen states and the District of Columbia have recently considered legislation to restrict this practice.4 Despite the lobbying efforts of the credit reporting industry, Oregon (S.B. 1045) and Illinois (H.B. 4658) recently enacted laws restricting the practice, and other states are on their way to doing the same.

More Unity Despite the efforts of many of its professional associations, the pet industry still often operates like a fragmented group of organizations with differing interests.

Despite months of good - faith efforts by responsible pet professionals, AB 485 still threatens ethically run pet stores which, thanks to industry standards and federal and state laws, are already the most highly regulated entities providing pets to Californians.

Despite the pet food industry's efforts to offer more nutrient - dense diets and fewer weight - gain - inducing formulas for the nation's chunkier dogs and cats, obesity is on the rise for the fifth straight year, according to a report from Nationwide, a major provider of pet insurance.

The citizens of Belize are determined to preserve the environment despite the efforts to promote the oil industry.

For years Sony has lagged behind in the first - person shooter department, and despite Killzone and Resistance's best efforts, Xbox has housed one of the industry's more prolific genres.

But despite their best efforts, Nintendo still makes up approximately 90 % of the market share for the video game industry.

And that despite the efforts by industry interests and certain politicians to claim such a transition would «devastate the economy» or whatever, people still want comprehensive energy reform.

And despite even these efforts thousands of agricultural workers have been laid off amidst a 2 billion dollar loss for the state's food industry.

Since that time, conditions have been steadily worsening with agricultural regions drying out, farmers, communities and industries forced to further deplete limited ground water supplies, and with reservoirs dropping despite best efforts by federal and state officials to conserve.

Despite EEI's 1989 pledge to reduce atmospheric emissions, annual CO2 emissions from the electricity sector remained higher in 2016 than they were when McCollum testified in 1989, due in large part to ongoing efforts by some in the industry to sow doubt about climate science and block legal limits on CO2 emissions from power plants.

I dip my toe into Climate Audit regularly and despite Professor Dawkin's best efforts I can't claim to understand the statistics or the whole unraveling of the claims and machination of the AGW industry.

The ACC also pushed to include more about plastic bag recycling in the text, but activists point out that despite the industry's efforts to push recycling as a solution to plastic pollution, less than 10 % of the 100 billion plastic bags used in the United States each year are recycled, and recycling does not address the impact plastic bags and packaging have on both animal and human health.

Despite efforts by the Trump administration and some states to prop up the coal industry, its future remains bleak.

Despite recent gains in efforts to strengthen its forest law enforcement, such as signing the Voluntary Partnership Agreement with the EU, Liberia's implementation is poor and both individuals and industry continue to vie for the country's precious resources.

And in 2009, we highlighted the role SXSW was playing in helping to steer the music industry in a more sustainable direction, but despite those valuable efforts, the 2011 expansion into a standalone conference devoted to sustainability marked the biggest nod to sustainability to - date for the SXSW brand.

«Despite the Danish wind industry's efforts to downplay it, the resistance exhibited by Danes has spread with disastrous results for the likes of Vestas.

Despite the best efforts of both the government and the pensions industry, «pension freedoms» remain only loosely understood.

And it's true, despite the best efforts of even the industry's most notable developers, the world's largest cryptocurrencies remain not just volatile, but difficult (and risky) to use, at least in a way that their creators» intended.

Additional highlights • 63 per cent of resource and mining employers are not actively hiring new graduates despite reports of a growing skills shortage • 2016 salary increases for resource and mining professionals are more modest than the previous year, with 21 % reporting no increases compared to eight per cent in the previous year • Almost three quarters (73 %) of oil and gas employees experience moderate to extreme workplace pressure due to the lack of employees and skills present • Work from home options, pension / RRSP contributions and flexible work hours are the top - three incentives oil and gas employers want to add in an effort to attract talent About Hays Canada: Hays Specialist Recruitment Canada is a wholly owned subsidiary of Hays plc, which has been at the forefront of the global recruitment industry for over thirty - five years.

Despite all efforts to the contrary, cancer diagnoses are on the rise, with treatments accounting for huge turnover in the pharmaceutical industry.

Despite efforts for many years by several individuals and groups, the Canadian home inspection industry is still very much unregulated.