Sentences with phrase «little progress in»

I shared last week that I made a little progress in giving the master bedroom a facelift.

While we continue to harm each other with lateral violence and while governments and industry operate in a way that fosters lateral violence, there will be little progress in improving the indicators that measure the gap between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and the broader Australian community.

Third, there has been very little progress in reducing this inequality gap between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander and non-Indigenous Australians over the past decade, for example in relation to long term measures such as life expectation.

While we continue to harm each other with lateral violence and while governments and industry operate within the native title system in a way that creates environments that foster lateral violence, there will be little progress in improving the indicators necessary to close the gap between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and the broader Australian community.

Australia's UPR completed in November 2015 showed it had made little progress in addressing concerns about Indigenous incarceration rates that had been raised in its inaugural UPR in 2011, according to an analysis by PhD candidates Janani Muhunthan and Anne - Marie Eades, and Professor Stephen Jan..

Yet there has not been any noticeable improvement in the enjoyment of rights by Indigenous people and little progress in addressing the duplication and lack of coordination of services between governments and departments.

To date, there has been very little progress in advancing the creation of alternative regional representative Indigenous structures to ATSIC and it is difficult to see how such structures will come into existence by 1 July 2005.

There has been little progress in their knowledge,» an unnamed executive from a major bitcoin trading firm told Quartz.

If you find a few minutes here or there, make a little progress in the course.

Also there should be a recommendation of what needs to be done to make more progress on accurately defining climate sensitivity — there has been little progress in the past few decades.

To date, however, these remain concepts with little progress in the hardware department.

Despite its outsize role in driving Amazon deforestation, the cattle industry has made relatively little progress in achieving sustainable supply chains compared to producers of other commodities like soy and palm oil.

However, on an international level, 2013 passed with very little progress in terms of establishing a new international climate agreement.

There will be little progress in forecast development that has a shelf life of resultant usability better than a month.

Police have made little progress in identifying who stole or leaked the files.

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).

If former Corinthian students made little progress in loan forgiveness under Obama, they are faring worse under the Trump administration.

Even though Chase said that the fee only applies to those accounts that made a little progress in -LSB-...]

Unfortunately, we have seen little progress in the past few years and in some cases, the situation is even worse for borrowers.

Despite years of work and an early e-reader partnership with Sony, Waterstones has made little progress in developing and popularizing its own e-bookstore.

I guess that's what makes it read like multiple biographies, with disappointingly little progress in what we all know is a strong story - line.

There has also been little progress in the percentage of kids at Renewal Schools taking the SAT entrance test; too few students consider college (Chapman, 2017).

The report, published Jan. 6, found that traditional public schools and public charter schools in the District have made little progress in closing racial disparities in discipline.

While our results are only a descriptive analysis, and should not be interpreted as causal findings, until more is understood about the types of students who drop - out of college and potential reasons why, there will likely be little progress in reducing the college failure rate in the U.S.

Yes, both show very little progress in student achievement.

Although we've focused more and more attention on dealing with the seemingly intractable gaps in achievement between black and Hispanic students and white students in the last quarter century, we've made little progress in closing the gaps.

In the forty years since PLATO, educational technologists have made progress in teaching parts of the curriculum that can be most easily reduced to routines, but we have made very little progress in expanding the range of what these programs can do.

Reading is essential for all forms of learning and education, but many students complete elementary school with inadequate reading ability, and there has been little progress in the last few decades in helping these students gain necessary reading proficiency.

Although those events are never explicitly mentioned, the mood and tension in the sequence is consumed by them due to how little progress in addressing issues of inequality the U.S. has made since then.

Over the past century we have become adept at suppressing the symptoms of respiratory diseases but we have made little progress in curing them.

Anxiety disorders are the most prevalent of all brain disorders, and yet there's been little progress in drug treatments for anxiety in more than 50 years.

«There's a big effort to understand friction and control it, because it's one of the limiting factors for nanomachines, but there has been relatively little progress in actually controlling friction at any scale,» Vuletic says.

Since then biologists have made little progress in understanding where electricity fits into the myriad chemical and physical responses involved in wound healing.

The conclusion of conference speakers: During the past 50 years, scientific societies appear to have made little progress in imposing standards for research integrity, despite repeated calls to embrace new ethical recommendations.

«In fact, very little progress in finding more effective drugs for epilepsy has been made in the past 100 years.»

There seemed to be little progress in the end - of - session talks over the weekend as posturing continues on key issues.

Two years went by with little progress in negotiations.

But an Investigative Post analysis shows there's been little progress in executing the initiative.

He has shown little progress in three years, and he is now buried behind several young guards that are now making up the team's future — Jamal Murray, Gary Harris, and Will Barton.

It even says (and I quote) «Sharia has made little progress in the US.»

But isn't this fact in itself a reflection of the fact that process theism has made relatively little progress in the church as a whole, in spite of having been the leading theological option in most nonconservative seminaries for a number of years?

Officials who have been briefed on the inquiry described it as having made strikingly little progress in answering the basic questions of the case, with frustrated FBI agents reporting that they are running out of rocks to overturn.

You make little progress in either program and so you start searching for something better.

Facebook released its third - annual diversity report Thursday, showing, once again, the company has made little progress in employing African Americans and Hispanics and only meager headway in finding more roles for women.

Not exact matches

«There seems to be very little progress on some of the big things in terms of getting user growth going again, in terms of making Twitter more accessible for new users, in terms of dealing with abuse, in terms of driving revenue growth.»

Secondly, he noted «the root causes of the global crisis have not been prop ¬ erly tackled» with the financial system remaining «the Achilles heel of the world economy» and thirdly, «little progress is being made in reducing working poverty and vulnerable forms of employment such as informal jobs and undeclared work.»

Moody's studied 37 oil and gas companies in Canada and the U.S., concluding that although the oil industry has dramatically slashed its cost of production in the past three years and is currently in the midst of posting much better financials this year, there is little room left for more progress.

Some spoke, too, of concerns that what little progress they had seen on issues of fairness and diversity on Wall Street in recent years would be unwound in Mr. Trump's America.

And in his January 1937 inaugural address Roosevelt said, «The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little.»

«The idea that you would deny protection for 50,000 people because there are a few bad apples who wouldn't be eligible for Temporary Protected Status in the first place, makes little to no sense,» Tom Jawetz, the vice president of immigration policy at the Center for American Progress, a liberal research organization told NBC News.