Sentences with phrase «last decade of efforts»

But the last decade of efforts has proven that delay can not be combatted successfully just by dismissing the oldest cases.

Not exact matches

The last time rates were raised was nearly a decade ago; since then the Fed has pursued a policy of slashing rates and keeping them low in an effort to wrench the economy out of the Great Recession and promote greater growth and consumption.

Any efforts at changing the culture of the inner city will have to intersect with the African - American churches here; learning from those who have weathered the last few decades and built institutions to serve the community.

The crude video, linked to Coptic activists in the United States, prompted the 57 - member Organization of Islamic Cooperation to revive its demand for a UN ban on the defamation of religion (after dropping its decade - long effort last year).

(FOOTNOTE: We have made no effort to include all of the New Testament in this survey, but a word or two at least must be said about the Christology of the Epistle to the Hebrews, which is probably to be dated in the last decade of the first century.

The first third of the decade saw my last efforts at unsnarling the puzzles of religion, taken as puzzles of language.

In the last decades most international efforts have focused on distributing food to vulnerable populations; with very little support dedicated to strengthening the ability of small holder farming to adequately feed their local communities.

Fans of any program that has played at an elite level in the last decade or two don't want to face the thought of a rebuilding effort.

Fate intervened in several unlikely ways in the two ensuing decades and then last fall, Weber, now a fixture in the national Farm to School Network, found himself waxing enthusiastic about local produce to a woman who was part of an effort called Homegrown Minneapolis, which would like to see more of that farmstead goodness put before MPS kids and other locals.

In the last two decades, efforts have been made to differentiate SIDS deaths from the different, but related, larger class of infant deaths referred to as SUID.

Russia «meddled» in last year's presidential election as part of a decades - long effort to «undermine American democracy,» CIA Director Mike Pompeo said.

A quick look at immigration laws in the last decade suggests that there has been no shortage of efforts to do something.

The decline in the occurrence of civil war over the last two decades is substantial, and likely due in part to concerted international conflict management efforts.

«With nearly two decades of hands - on experience in the Executive and Legislative branches, including the last nine years with the Senate Republican Conference, Scott Reif is exactly the right person to lead the communications effort for our majority both now and in the future,» said Majority Leader John Flanagan.

It was Mr. Cuomo, a Democrat facing re-election in November, who almost single - handedly revived congestion pricing last summer after decades of failed efforts.

«Assemblyman Sheldon Silver has dedicated the last two decades to New York, leading the Democratic conference in an effort to uphold everything that is based upon the fundamental principles of our conference and party.

U.S. District Judge Valerie Caproni in Manhattan dismissed the Democrat's efforts to portray behavior that earned him millions of dollars over the last decade as innocent conduct that, at most, stretched the limits of ethics rules.

But in the last decade, the Japanese government has sought to counter this by internationalizing the country through a series of administrative innovations, alliances with foreign government agencies, financial support for foreign scholars, and programs that bolster top universities» international recruitment efforts.

«In summary, these encouraging data build upon the real success of our translational efforts in myeloma over the last decade, and provide exciting new options with the real promise of improving patient outcome,» said Richardson, who is also the R.J. Corman professor at Harvard Medical School.

In response to a question about the White House budget proposal's potential impact on NIH's ambitions, Collins pointed to passage late last year of the 21st Century Cures Act, a $ 6.3 billion measure that authorizes a decade of funding for the «moonshot» program to cure cancer, the Precision Medicine Initiative, the BRAIN initiative and efforts to combat opioid addiction.

So they were pleased when President Barack Obama last night pledged a new, long - term effort aimed at repairing what he called «decades of environmental damage» to the region.

Despite ongoing efforts to control leprosy in Myanmar, the last decade has seen little change in the incidence of disease.

The group questioned the motive of the new research pointing to the deceptive research, and it also defended its clandestine efforts by reaffirming findings over the last several decades that concluded sugar does not contribute to heart disease — a point that's only half - true, considering sugar contributes greatly to obesity, which can put one at a higher risk of developing heart disease.

In the last decade, for example, it has been demonstrated that consuming superfluous (i.e., excessive) doses of antioxidant supplements in an effort to retard free radical production during exercise training actually contributes to increased muscle fatigue and delayed recovery (Teixeira et al., 2009; Close et al., 2006).

Foster has been a regular presence at Cannes throughout the decades and presented her last directorial effort — the bleak comedy «The Beaver,» starring Mel Gibson — in an out - of - competition slot in 2011.

As in David Gordon Green's Joe, Cage seems committed to acting again in a way he hasn't for most of the last decade (in which he became something of the poor man's Liam Neeson in an effort to pay off a massive tax debt).

The film's virtually a solo effort for much of the running time, and Bullock (who won four years back for «The Blind Side «-RRB- is doing something different here from the bulk of her work in the last few decades (you have to go back to «Speed» for its closest counterpart, and there's much greater emotional heft here).

Split is already Shyamalan's best domestic opening of the decade; for his other directorial efforts, it's behind only 2002's Signs, 2004's The Village, and 2010's woefully inept but financially successful The Last Airbender.

Larry Cuban is a prolific and insightful chronicler and analyst of our efforts at urban school reform and improvement over the last few decades.

Indeed, one of the most contentious education reforms of the last decade was the effort, spearheaded in the federal Race to the Top initiative, to create accountability around teachers» performance.

This is how most online programs began more than a decade ago, providing last - ditch efforts to keep children enrolled by putting reading assignments online and asking students to take a couple of multiple - choice tests.

The text - based chat followed the release last month of Quality Counts at 10: A Decade of Standards - Based Reform, the 10th annual Education Week report on state policy efforts for improving education (Jan. 5, 2006).

After decades of academic decline, and on the heels of a failed attempt to transform the school by bringing in better curricula, the turnaround could well be viewed as a last - ditch effort at reinvention.

What is most noticeable and most different about the promising efforts of the last decade is that Catholic - education reformers are now taking a different tack.

While the city's charter schools ran independently of Rhee's efforts to reform the public school system, the slow improvement in the schools overall paralleled the city's growth — as the city's population grew over the last decade, more parents chose to enroll their children in the city's school system, creating pressure for better schools and more schools.

Unfortunately, the district has a history of botched high school improvement efforts over the last decade with Manual being the poster child.

«The whole effort of the last two decades has been toward minority - teacher recruitment, and it's been an unheralded victory, really,» said Ingersoll, who has been researching the changes in the country's teaching corps of nearly 4 million.

The No Child Left Behind law, the major education reform effort of the last decade, is overlaid by a gloss of civil rights rhetoric, but it has done nothing to address the concentration of black and Latino students in the same schools, and the lack of resources they face.

It has accelerated in the last decade, thanks to efforts such as the U.S. Department of Education's What Works Clearinghouse, which has revealed the shoddiness of the curricula states and districts select for use in classrooms.

Last year, new high school equivalency exams were introduced nationwide in an effort to update the decade - old General Educational Development (GED) test and align it with new high school standards, known as the Common Core, adopted by a majority of states.

Despite the last few decades of intensive school reform efforts, «even the most ardent reformers must admit that public schools and student learning have improved only slightly, if at all,» writes Wolk.

The issues covered by the framework illustrate the new approach to poverty in the context of the last several decades of efforts to reform and improve public schools:

Though the magnitude of total resources that these two entities collectively bring to bear yields an outsized impact on the field, it exemplifies a trend among some of the major funders of public education - related efforts of the last decade.

«I commend Secretary Foxx and the Department of Transportation for their work on this effort, which is one of the largest paperwork reduction rules in the last decade.

The collective effort from the talented people involved has resulted in one of the most accomplished racing teams of any kind in the world over the last decade.

Intel has revised and revisited its mobile strategy several times in the last decade, but regardless of their efforts they have yet to see any real adoption from major handset and tablet vendors.

I do feel for all the paperback writers throughout the last decades whose hard work and effort only got them a six - week shelf life for their masterpiece to hit it and if it didn't it would disappear forever, going out of print and into the paper shredder.

Since the financial and housing crisis that gripped the world in the middle of the last decade, governments across the world have tightened regulations in an effort to reign in lending, and make the market more stable.

However, they became less became less common in the last few decades but with the efforts of a relatively few shepherds the breed has survived and is becoming more popular.

There are some very ambitious video games in the last decade and every game where developer puts time and effort into the game and it results in an awesome piece of art.