Sentences with phrase «less progress on»

There's been less progress on targets for habitats and many widespread species.»

Filing separately won't make sense for all borrowers as it means they will make much less progress on paying back their student loans.

Sites in the leadership network category were deemed to be making less progress on creating aligned systems.

Disadvantaged pupils (those qualifying for free school meals) made significantly less progress on average than non-disadvantaged pupils nationally during secondary school.

Filing separately won't make sense for all borrowers as it means they will make much less progress on paying back their student loans.

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All of a sudden, it feels less like I'm learning a new product and more like I'm making progress on Level 1 of Dropbox!

Kretchmer went to work on the product, social media software for publishers and brands, and when Kalanick thought it had progressed enough, he made 45 introductions to other angel investors in less than a week and agreed to invest in the company himself.

On the face of it, this simple fact would appear to confirm the common tale of Western progress from medieval religious barbarism to modern, more secular and therefore less violent, civilization.

Maybe we could make progress on finding ways to make abortions less common, and to care for those who are highly vulnerable in our society.

... [Americans] have become a nation that may defy every foe but that most dangerous of foes, herself, destined to a majestic future if she will shun the excess and perversion of the principles that made her great, prate less about the enemies of the past and strive more against the enemies of the future, resist the mob and the demagogue as she resisted Parliament and King, rally her powers from the race for gold and the delirium of prosperity to make firm the foundations on which that prosperity rests, and turn some fair proportion of her vast mental forces to other objects than material progress and the game of party politics.

For Chapman, our own internal state, our feelings and our own reflection on our feelings, is no measure of our progress as Christians — in fact, he goes out of his way to counsel people to think about their internal state as little as they possibly can («The less we look into ourselves the better»).

McLaren and Honda made decent progress in 2016 but despite more focus on aero and less on the power unit in 2017, it seems unlikely McLaren will replace Mercedes as the truly dominant force in F1.

But we have made progress, not a season of progress, but since the new year we've become a lot more solid at the back, more exciting going forward, less dependant on Alexis and we've had the revelation of Coquelin.

They stayed up on the basis of scoring 52 goals, 7th best in the league, but if they want to progress, they'll have to concede less goals.

I will be interested to see Mustafi's second season and whether he can adapt and progress further, I'm a bit less hopeful on Gabriel and I've regretfully given up on Jenks and Kieran.

If Liverpool are to be consistent in their qualification for the Champions League, much less challenge for the title, they'll need to progress in more sustainable ways under their fiery manager as opposed to spending on an expensive centerback.

I would like to think we are making some progress on the safety front, but less stressful?

National Policy, Programme and Coordination: Countries without a comprehensive policy on infant and young child feeding, spearheaded by a national coordinator, make less progress.

Within their progress report of the 4th carbon budget, the CCC illustrates that spending on domestic energy efficiency for low income households is currently less than half the required investment to meet statutory targets.

In theories of protest and revolution, the question whether violence is justified is premissed on the idea that it is probable.On the other hand, as is often observed, much modern social and political theory more or less eclipsed war within or between states, taking the socialising and civilising forces of historical progress for granted.

ALBANY — Legislative leaders huddled for nearly two hours with Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Wednesday morning and left far less optimistic about budget progress than when they'd entered.

«This progress is happening in part because we learned the lessons from the difficulties of the early years — that it is better to focus less on the monumentalism of a project and more on hard and fast decisions like pragmatic design, construction milestones and budgets,» said Ward, in the speech.

If they did, they might demand a big prize in return, such as PR for local elections, extended free childcare, progress on Lords reform and less brutal welfare cuts.

«[T] he increased reliance funding agencies place on [such] classic bibliometric indicators» as short - term citation metrics and journal impact measures thus hampers the chances that innovative work will win support and constrains both the progress of science and the career prospects of innovative but lesser - known researchers, the authors observe.

But respondents felt somewhat less positive about the quality of the supervision itself (Figure 2): 31 % felt that their supervisor failed to motivate them to overcome obstacles in their work, and 42 % wished their supervisor would insist on a progress report.

The pretreated rodents were 60 and 40 percent less likely to develop benign papillomas (an early sign of progressing cancer), depending on how the cancer - causing agent was applied, and had far fewer tumors than their untreated counterparts.

As students progress, the robot gradually reduces the force used to lead them, so they become less reliant on its guidance.

As chin ups are the slightly easier of the two exercises, I suggest you start by concentrating on that variation and then progress to the pull up once you have begun to master the less demanding movement.

Furthermore this forces very frequent focus on a relatively small number of basic lifts allowing the less experienced lifter to master and progress on them more often and training the neural pathways for those specific lifts.

I'm going to need to rely on less accurate ways to measure progress and growth.

On the other hand, Martin's reverse pyramid progression is less calorie extensive, but progress could be slower for a starting intermediate.

For more overweight individuals who are earlier on, the change in weight will be more drastic while visual progress will be less apparent.

Like you had energy, you may have been stressed, you may have been anxious but you had the energy, you know, behind you to do all the things that you needed to do, and then at some point, it started to teeter out where, you know, you're having less energy, you're feeling more fatigue, you need more naps, you need more time sleeping, you spend more time resting on the weekend, and most people when we do a detail history, we see that pattern kind of unfolding and we progress, that's called stage 1 — again, depending on what lab you use, there's a lab called Diagnos - Techs out of Washington, they have like a 7 phases of adrenal fatigue — I like keeping things really simple.

Mildred's teenage daughter, Angela (Kathryn Newton, in flashback), died less than a year before, raped and then set on fire; the scorched place where her body burned is still visible; Mildred is seething at the lack of progress in the case and is laying the blame squarely at the feet of the local police chief, Bill Willoughby (Woody Harrelson), who, while understandably unhappy with the 40 - foot - high attacks on his character, is not unsympathetic to Mildred's pain.

Our educated guess (based on the evidence in the trailer), is that the aspect ratios work in a kind of reverse chronological order — the more black in the frame the older the time period, the less black, the more recent (which is basically similar to how aspect ratios progressed in film history anyhow).

As the film progresses, it concentrates less on the job they do and more on their own personal suffering, and as a result, loses momentum.

As the season progresses, the show becomes less about the Young Pope's ability to dazzle admirers with a smile than his willingness to compensate for his own insecurity by doubling down on extreme, conservative views.

That means putting curriculum changes on hold, less bureaucracy on recording pupil progress and staff performance, and lessening the burden of written marking to please Ofsted inspectors.

The framework outlines the expectations for schools to provide accurate information about pupils» attainment and progress that they make, along with a requirement to identify pupils who are making less than expected progress and / or are unlikely on current performance to make expected or higher attainment.

Moreover, 4th and 8th graders in West Virginia are less likely than their peers in other states to attend schools where more than half of parents attend parent - teacher conferences, based on data from the background survey of the National Assessment of Educational Progress.

Central High did not make the Adequate Yearly Progress standard under the federal No Child Left Behind Act, and less than 20 percent of its students score «proficient» on state standardized math tests.

Instead of trying to specify the amount of progress students should make based on some utopian ideal, it rewards or sanctions schools for making more (or less) progress than one might expect under the circumstances.

Findings show that since 2012, poorer families have been making less progress year on year, in comparison to those that are more well - off.

The reports demonstrate that federal accountability rules have derailed state reforms and assessment strategies, that the requirements have no common meaning across state lines, and that the sanctions fall especially hard on minority and integrated schools, asking for much less progress from affluent suburban schools.

In the case of the SGP approach, this reflects the fact that low - SES students make less progress, on average, than high - SES students, even after conditioning on prior test performance.

As eLearning students will have far less interaction with your teaching staff than instructor - led students would have, it's a great idea to report on learner progress to make sure your students are getting on with the course content and aren't running into problems.

We wouldn't necessarily expect CTE students to show as much academic progress as their peers in traditional high schools because they are spending less of their time on academics!

In the latter years of the 20th century, the federal government not only became far more involved in civil rights, surveillance of behavior and misbehavior on educational sites, and financing of education for the less wealthy; in conjunction with the governors of many states, the federal government also played a significant role in testing of students, evaluation of progress toward national educational goals, and even support for the creation and evaluation of curricula and pedagogical approaches, both live and online.

Richardson also checked in on their progress with their product, their marketing campaign, and the elements of their project that were less tied to math.

To the contrary, rural students consistently do less well in college on a variety of outcomes (readiness for credit - bearing courses, grades, rate of progress, graduation) than urban students from similar income groups.