Sentences with phrase «hampered efforts»

In South Africa, Apartheid has left an ongoing legacy of political corruption which has hampered efforts to address historical injustices.

The track conditions changed drastically in my stint as the surface got hotter, plus I had a braking issue that hampered our efforts.

While politics have frequently hampered the efforts to reform state pensions systems, several states have successfully passed significant reform to their pension systems.

Because of the way Congress creates and funds programs, the department traditionally operated in program - based silos, which led to similar silos in states and hampered efforts to link together programs in comprehensive reform.

Unfortunately, because the U.S. Department of Education does not regularly track borrowers by race, data limitations have hampered efforts to connect research on racial gaps with detailed new studies of debt and default patterns.

The lifting process was supposed to take about a day, but bad weather and rough seas have hampered efforts, and technicians hope to have the ship raised by this weekend.

Meanwhile, the ferocity of the oil fires has hampered the efforts of local fire crews to extinguish them amid fears that explosive devices may have been planted around the wells.

This has been a problem which has hampered efforts to improve efficiency by utilising heat energy waste for some time.

Furthermore, a lack of consensus between states related to the meaning of consent forms and institutional review board (IRB) processes while conducting research has hampered efforts toward global scientific collaborations.

The lack of knowledge about how an explosive blast injures the brain has hampered efforts to treat these injuries.

Researchers trying to develop new drugs to combat superbugs face financial and legal hurdles that have hampered their efforts, the Reuters reporters found.

-- Foreign weapons — President Muhammadu Buhari and his predecessor Goodluck Jonathan have said the refusal of Western government the Nigerian military hardware has hampered its efforts to tackle Boko Haram.

Leeds United's improved football was undermined by indiscipline as two red cards hampered their efforts against Brighton.

Brazil, Australia and Japan have raised the same complaint while India worries a tax might hamper its efforts to extend financial services to low - income groups.

I think that a lot of people never had the opportunity to learn the skills of cooking without having to follow a recipe word for word and meal planning which hampers their efforts to have a sit down, from scratch meal with their families.

No parent wants any condition to hamper her efforts to potty train her child.

This has the potential to hamper efforts towards localism», she said.

And some officials at the forum, like Rep. Claudia Tenney (R - New Hartford), say the state's policies are hampering their efforts to create more jobs.

As Trump pushes to fight terrorism, his troubles in filling out key political appointees in the nation's security apparatus could hamper that effort.

Cuomo made the argument that the ongoing corruption scandals are hampering efforts for ethics reform.

The statement by reader — «In fact calling a special at all will severely hamper their efforts to win back the majority and would have to be viewed as a slight against them.»

Republican Chele Farley made her first visit to Buffalo on Thursday, but doesn't think unfamiliarity with New York's second largest city will hamper her efforts to unseat incumbent U.S. Sen. Kirsten E. Gillibrand.

The unspent amount is concerning Cuomo administration officials and appointed advocates, who worry that a delay in allocations could hamper efforts to change how care is delivered to more than 6 million New Yorkers.

[59] Through negotiations this authority was only awarded to the mayor of New York City as an attempt to overcome a system of school boards that many considered to be hampering efforts at reform.

And it fuels prison overcrowding, which hampers efforts to rehabilitate offenders — and that just makes us all less safe.

GOP budget cuts could hamper efforts to fight an ash - killing Asian beetle, Sen. Chuck Schumer warned.

No bids were submitted to buy and develop part of the Gov. W. Averell Harriman State Office Campus by this week's deadline, a significant setback that hampers efforts to increase Albany's property tax base.

This bill was also introduced and passed last year, but was eventually vetoed by Astorino who said it would hamper the efforts of county law enforcement.

It drew swift criticism from superintendents, who say such a cap would hamper efforts to attract and retain quality candidates.

Lack of familiarity with these subjects by students and their parents hampers efforts to recruit minority students into graduate studies or careers in these fields.

The lack of good information on global soils is hampering efforts to improve agriculture and combat climate change

Language barriers and financial problems hamper efforts to warn anglers.

Among other things, the service says, environmental litigation severely hampers efforts to list more species by siphoning off money for legal costs.

Malaria is transmitted by mosquitoes and rising resistance to insecticides is hampering efforts to control the disease.

A comprehensive scientific report released by The Royal Society of Canada (RSC) has concluded that there are still critical research gaps hampering efforts to both assess the environmental impacts of crude oil spills and to effectively remediate them.

A new study suggests that U.S. antitrust laws could hamper the efforts of companies to collaborate on sustainable and socially - responsible business practices, even as consumers and businesses increasingly value them.

A shortage of data on the weather in Antarctica is hampering efforts to understand climate change in the region, according to new research.

Seems that confidentiality hampers efforts to track buying habits — and bad guys.

Drug - resistant TB, now present everywhere in the world, is hampering efforts to fight the disease because the usual drugs used to treat it are no longer effective.

They're also tricky to alter genetically, hampering efforts to tweak the polyketide - synthesizing enzymes so that they make new variants.

Other Europeans, too, face a steep bill for climate change relief, but dire financial straits are hampering their efforts (see «Europe in 2050: a survivor's guide to climate change «-RRB-.

Here, four hidden stressors that might be hampering your efforts, plus alternatives that will help you maintain a healthy weight (and love every second of it).

Also, drinking calories during workouts will hamper your efforts to lose weight.

The Russian scientists knew that high levels of cortisol initiate a dangerous cascade of stress and disease that would hamper the efforts of their best and brightest.

Furthermore, they're both profoundly boys» movies, which hampers the efforts of two highly skilled actresses — Susan Sarandon in Twilight, Julianne Moore in The Big Lebowski — to do much with their underwritten parts.

Russo spends the bulk of the paper recounting the history of ED in ’08 and problems that hampered the effort.

Regardless of the reform strategy — whether new standards, or accountability, or small schools, or parental choice, or teacher effectiveness — there is an underlying weakness in the U.S. education system which has hampered every effort up to now: most consequential decisions are made by district and state leaders, yet these leaders lack the infrastructure to learn quickly what's working and what's not.

Particular emphasis was placed on how inequitable funding for public schools can hamper efforts to boost academic outcomes and improve achievement among vulnerable student populations, as well as on exploring what could be done to change it.

The study, which was scheduled to be released early this week by the House Select Committee on Children, Youth, and Families, finds that there are significant financial, cultural, and institutional barriers that hamper efforts to provide AIDS - prevention education and services to adolescents.

Brandon Wright and others have already weighed in on some of the implications of this move, and how it could hamper efforts to implement the new law and states» ability to meaningfully use ESSA to innovate and adopt novel approaches to school accountability and improvement.