Sentences with phrase «impedes efforts»

It was initiated because the ERA impedes efforts by lawyers in the federal public service to address long existing concerns about salary.

First, it impedes efforts to redirect kids toward the fresh, whole foods that would better serve their longterm health.

Hawkins said Cuomo's fundraising is why he has favored corporate interests over the needs of workers, attacking teachers and unions, impeding efforts to make the minimum wage a living wage, and largely ignoring wage theft which costs low - income workers in NYC alone an estimated billion dollars a year.

The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it.

NASA faces several significant challenges that may impede efforts to maximize utilization of all ISS research facilities, including:

EEHV is the leading cause of death in juvenile Asian elephants born in North America and is a major factor impeding efforts to establish robust breeding groups in captivity.

That said, in this last part I'll mention some other issues that may be impeding your efforts to lose weight and detoxify.

In the very next paragraph of that article, Keenan Ivory Wayans, who was never funny, and who brought to our sad attention a whole host of brothers who were never funny, weighs in about the vanity of actresses impeding their efforts at comedy.

Police corruption and unethical journalistic practice severely impeded efforts to find justice.

This was not lost on Liz Hannah and Josh Singer as they recently discussed their script for The Post, which details publisher Katharine Graham's decision, with editor Ben Bradlee, to publish the Pentagon Papers in June 1971 after a federal judge had already impeded the efforts of The New York Times.

One can only wonder how these distractions impede the efforts of charter schools to educate their students.

Laura Preston with the Assn. of California School Administrators said concerns had grown in the Capitol over the noisy divide between teachers unions and other educational organizations that could impede efforts to pass Proposition 30, the November ballot initiative backed by Gov. Jerry Brown.

A coalition of charter leaders have been working since April to amend the language, which they said impeded their efforts to offer a high - quality education to their students.

Fears that charters will drain resources from public schools have impeded efforts to increase the number of no - excuses schools.

A long - dormant bill that could significantly impede efforts in Los Angeles and elsewhere to use student test scores to evaluate teachers has been revived and faces a key legislative test Thursday.

Perceived barriers fell into three categories: those that prevented instructional innovation, those that restricted resource allocation, and those that impeded efforts to improve teacher quality.

If the account is not in good standing, you can request the credit reporting agency to remove it from your report so you won't impede your efforts to improve your credit score.

She testified to the bankruptcy court that she suffers from multiple chronic medical conditions and physical injuries, which have impeded her efforts to find employment.

The case of dogfighter Craig Boyd illustrates how failing to prosecute operators aggressively, issuing lenient sentences for the convicted, and completely ignoring accessories to the crime impede efforts to stop animal fighting and all its cruelty.

Trap - Neuter - Return (TNR) initiatives — humanely trapping cats, then performing spay or neuter surgery before returning them to their colony — have been proven to be an effective form of management, but local laws and ordinances can sometimes impede these efforts.

Dot Earth has been exploring how values create filters for information, and this has impeded efforts to galvanize a large - scale movement.

By broadcasting programmes that appear to manipulate and even fabricate evidence, it has impeded efforts to forestall the 21st Century's greatest threat.

Abstract The Key Role of Heavy Precipitation Events in Climate Model Disagreements of Future Annual Precipitation Changes in California Climate model simulations disagree on whether future precipitation will increase or decrease over California, which has impeded efforts to anticipate and adapt to human - induced climate change........

I'm concerned that this similarity in appearance could impede efforts to eliminate the growing of marijuana in this country, particularly when law enforcement agents fly over fields searching for illegal marijuana crops.

More significant complexities are introduced by the fact that some coastlines are sinking while others are rising, impeding the effort to establish a global baseline.

[50] At the same time, the Futures Commission lamented, «systematic research on the current delivery of legal services — especially services for «ordinary individuals» — is strikingly limited,» [51] and that «limited data has impeded efforts to identify and assess the most effective innovations in legal services delivery.»

One commenter, for example, explained that it extensively uses such information in its research, and any restrictions were likely to impede its efforts.

However, without the proper LinkedIn profile development, you may impede your efforts, rather than help you obtain the right position.

Yet, numerous data and research gaps impede these efforts.

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Pursuing this goal takes effort, but establishing a healthy culture means never having to worry that the great work our company does will be impeded by outdated attitudes.

COVER STORY: CORPORATE DEBT A gargantuan wall of debt coming due over the next few years could impede all but the highest - rated corporations» efforts to refinance their debt.

Referring to the hyperepidemics of Africa, an article in The Lancet this fall named «ten myths» that impede prevention efforts» including «Poverty and....

Its present success is due to the fact that the collective effort and strong centralized authority associated with it are producing dramatic improvements in the economic, political, and military position of nations hitherto impeded by traditional systems unsuited to industrial civilization.

It becomes illegitimate, however, when it is not utilized or when it serves to impede the work of others, in an effort to gain a profit which is not the result of the overall expansion of work and the wealth of society, but rather in the result of curbing them or of illicit exploitation, speculation or the breaking of solidarity among working people.

Our imaginative efforts blind us to the dynamic present and impede our laughter.

During the action phase, it is important to maintain open communication among task force members so that misunderstandings, duplication of efforts, and working at cross-purposes will not impede effectiveness.

After Congressman Victor L. Berger, a member of the National Socialist Party who was convicted of «impeding the war effort,» was sentenced by Landis to the maximum penalty, the Judge remarked, «It was my great disappointment to give Berger only 20 years in Leavenworth.

In an effort to increase scoring, the NCAA implemented new rules changes during the off - season meant to crack down on hand - checking (i.e. when the defensive player uses one or both of his hands to impede the progress of the offensive player).

In an effort to increase scoring, the NCAA implemented new rules changes during the off - season meant to crack down on hand - checking (i.e. when the defensive player uses one or both of his hands to impede...

A 2009 city comptroller audit of Basic Housing Inc., which currently operates 598 cluster - site units, found the nonprofit did not consistently provide social services to all its clients, which impeded «their efforts to obtain permanent housing and become self - sufficient.»

Anticipating the sort of business - led pushback that accompanied his fast - food wage effort, Cuomo said the notion that a higher minimum wage would impede job growth is a «political argument.»

Hurricanes that devastated areas of the Caribbean last fall impeded science research and teaching, but new networks for aiding colleagues and new avenues for research have emerged from the response efforts, according to several speakers at a recent conference co-hosted by AAAS.

A new study co-authored by an MIT professor shows that China's new efforts to price carbon could lower the country's carbon dioxide emissions significantly without impeding economic development over the next three decades.

«We sought to better understand and break down the silos and stovepipes that prevent sharing of information and impede advances in cancer research and treatment, while building a focused and coordinated effort at home and abroad,» they explain.

The analysis suggests landslides could also affect some inland slopes, threatening key transit routes and impeding recovery efforts.

Such efforts, they felt, would help to disperse some of the confusion and misperceptions that exist in the occasionally fragile relationship between Europe's industries and academic institutions — confusion that impedes informed career development by young scientists.

This suspicion has sparked riots that have killed people, both directly and by impeding medical efforts.

Efforts to study the molecular mechanisms that mediate these complex processes in different anatomical compartments have been impeded by difficulties in the isolation and propagation of endothelial cells from different organs.

Much of the effort to impede cancer metabolism focuses on the PI3K pathway that is hyperactivated in so many cancers.

Being a natural - born researcher, I have spent countless hours reading blogs and research papers in an effort to uncover the missing item impeding my recovery.