Sentences with phrase «little headway with»

Anyway, despite the millions & billions of barrels Tony O'Reilly keeps throwing around, Providence has made precious little progress in the past year: The Dunquin North exploration well was a bit of a dud, and there's been little headway with the farm - out of Barryroe (or proving up its resources).

But such arguments make little headway with socialists, says Novak, because, contrary to appearances, socialism is not really a practical political proposal at all.

Similarly, the other nations in the region have made little headway with China concerning their own competing South China Sea claims.

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With the larger economic problems the nation faces in funding the Depression - era program, Astrue has made little headway, particularly since he took office after the collapse of President Bush's efforts to reform the system, and especially now that his six - year appointment has carried him, a Republican legacy, into a Democratic administration.

I have been watching with growing alarm as our City government continues to flounder, making little if any headway on issues such as police and community relations, rampant violence, decaying relationships with neighborhood organizations and the lack of progress on jobs, poverty and education.

Eunic Ortiz, president of the Stonewall Democrats, said her club had made little headway in speaking with James» staff.

The action marks the latest setback for the governor's education agenda, which was battered last year and has made little headway in 2017, even with a modest list of bills.

The report starts with the widely recognised fact that both international and local standardised testing shows Australian schools making little or no headway on improving performance or reducing inequality.

This is basically an argument I've been making for a while, both to anti-pit and pro-pit factions, with very little headway.

These figures have remained fairly consistent since the 2003 - 2004 edition of the survey, but when you compare them with the results of the most recent U.S. Census, which says that Hispanics now make up over 16 percent of the population (up 43 percent since 2000) and blacks make up 12 percent (up 12.3 percent since 2000), it seems that little headway has been made in promoting pet ownership among these ethnic groups.

With various «bring your own chopsticks» movements making little headway against the 45 billion pairs of disposable wooden utensils used each year in China alone, a clever Chinese environmental group has