Sentences with phrase «little progress on»

U.S. data - breach notification laws are currently a state - by - state patchwork, and there has been little progress on a unified national version of the rules.

Accident investigation evolved into DWI - Drugs investigation when 7 hours of cleanup efforts yielded little progress on re-opening highway.

Japan made little progress on its pro-whaling agenda as commissioners blocked the country's request for a coastal whaling quota.

The United Nations climate talks have made little progress on the most critical aspects of a deal to respond to the climate crisis, said Friends of the Earth Europe today at the mid-point of the summit in Paris.

Because energy inputs for annual bioenergy crops, such as corn, are so high, they make little progress on cutting emissions.

-LSB-...] Meteorological Society Considers Data Archiving A little progress on this front since my last post on this -LSB-...]

Amid the shouting over tactics, there has been little progress on a larger issue: When whale species, like the minke, are no longer rare, can they be both admired and eaten — as North Americans do with bison — or is it simply wrong to kill whales at all?

With COP16 kicking off in Cancún, Mexico at the end of the month, UNEP is hoping to get people jazzed up about all the different ways of combatting climate change — considering, that all signs point to little progress on the political front this year,

Nine months later, she's made little progress on that goal.

I like activities like that and even though the students were making very little progress on the project, they were trying and I'm all for students doing something interesting and getting to exercise their creativity.

Yet when SAC visited in September, there was little progress on such a plan, a consequence they felt of excessive interference by the board.

You CAN learn to make a good use of those time windows, and be able to make a little progress on your paper even in the 15 min available.

Once heralded by the governor as a transformative way to bring down energy costs for consumers while increasing jobs at upstate power producers, the plan announced more than three years ago has produced little progress on a core initiative: a nearly $ 1 billion project to run AC transmission lines around Utica or the Catskills and down the Hudson Valley to meet downstate's growing power needs.

With little progress on an international climate change agreement, state and municipal governments worldwide are coming together to address the issue.

ALBANY — While nobody can say the Legislature had an unproductive Wednesday, lawmakers went home having made little progress on most of the big - ticket items awaiting agreement.

Among widely followed indicators, we can see some of this in the declining number of individual stocks achieving new 52 - week highs when the major market indices push higher, by the tendency for trading volume to become dull on advances and expand on declines (or what is a similar observation, the tendency for the market to make little progress on heavy up - volume and substantial downside progress on light down - volume), and in the recent explosion of insider selling.

Canadians tentative about trade with China; more bullish on the EU, UK September 7, 2017 — As negotiators for Canada, the United States, and Mexico revealed this week they've made little progress on revising the North American Free Trade Agreement

In a blog post, co-founder Evan Sharp noted that most big tech companies — including Pinterest — have made little progress on hiring more women and minorities, a failure that he attributes largely to the fact «that companies haven't stated specific goals.»

LONDON, May 3 - World stocks made little progress on Thursday as worries over global trade tensions weighed, while the U.S. dollar consolidated recent bumper gains after the Federal Reserve reaffirmed the outlook for more rate hikes.

«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.»

Not exact matches

It's like a calendar that reminds managers to check on staff and send little «badges» to reward progress.

«The Buddhists have a saying that «little by little, one walks far,» so my resolution for 2014 is to give up magic bullet thinking and focus on lots of small steps of progress,» May said.

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.

Kapchan noted that there is currently little progress from these Western nations on the deal, where, he said «the leadership and many members do not want the JCPOA to die, but neither do they want to be party to Trump's efforts to kill it, and risk taking the blame.»

There's little that's more infuriating in work than the stifling impact of silos on progress and breakout thinking.

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.

So far, there has been little or no progress on that front.

In the months since these top engineers have left, the 43 self - driving cars Uber had on the roads as of March 8 saw little progress when it came to decreasing the frequency of disengagements — or how many times a safety driver would have to take back control of the system.

The German chancellor's meeting with Trump was cordial and warm, but there was little sign of progress on the Iran nuclear deal or EU exemptions from trade tariffs.

Critics point to few new jobs created, a widespread agrarian crisis, slow progress on the planned $ 1 trillion investment in large infrastructure projects, and little headway on tax reform.

The Auditor General has raised a number of these issues in her «Observations» on the federal government's financial statements but little progress has been made to date.

The first five rounds reportedly saw very little progress, putting even more pressure on this next round.

We don't proselityze and we are not open to conversion to any other faith... so just get it through your head... leave us alone... and I'll give you a little hint... Jews, in general, because of all their accomplishments and contributions to the progress of humanity have a well earned sense of superiority... we're only 14 million strong in the world and yet our contributions, our genius, and our work ethic has made indelible marks on the world... So, if anything, you guys should be trying to become Jews... maybe some of our genius will rub off on you... just go your way and LEAVE US ALONE!!!!

I can not help but lament, deeply and personally, how little progress we have made in relieving the suffering that goes on there.

Morality and our concept of what is good and what is evil has no influence on the progress of events in the Universe outside our tiny slice of time on this tiny little world.

Laura Bozzone's Celia is a little heavy handed on the earnestness early in the play, but her portrayal mellows alongside her character into a spirited warmth and charm as the story progresses.

We make progress, backing off a little on the whole exclusivity issue, and deciding to attend not only to the spectacular but to all the evidence around us.

A series of United Nations reports on land reform during the past decade give little reason for hope that progress will be swift or easy.

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»).

I'm documenting my progress on this little adventure and I'm not going in any particular order... I'm just having fun with it.

Liverpool have worries in midfield, however, with Adam Lallana missing the whole season so far due to injury, while the Daily Mirror report that little progress is being made on efforts to keep Can at the club.

You can claim its everything or anything, its that he should be in AAA working on things, but a year plus into being a full starter he's shown little to no progress as a player

I realise that time marches on and that progress can't be stopped, but sometimes it would be nice if we could be a little more civil with people who have a different opinion than ours.

I'm sure we are not unique in the fact that we are most likely all to a man checking the headlines and the forums on a daily if not hourly basis in order to see if our club has made any progress towards improving the squad and moving a little closer to successes in the relevant fields.

According to Sky Sports, a source close to negotiations has revealed that progress is being made, but the transfer «is not sorted yet», which suggests that the saga could rumble on for a little longer.

Chambers needs to get his head down and work on his game — he has all the raw talent but he needs to progress technically and physically a little.

While Arsenal appear to have brokered an agreement with the Chile Football Federation to delay Sanchez's departure to his homeland, Wenger accepts should La Roja progress through the championships which culminate at the Estadio Nacional in Santiago, then there would be little option but to give one of their star men some extra recovery time ahead of the new domestic campaign which kicks off on August 8.

As a reminder, the Liverpool midfielder's contract runs it course at the end of this season, and there has been little public mention of any progress in contract talks, with many supporters already operating on the assumption that the player will be somewhere else next season.

Nevertheless, there has been little sign of progress, but with Per Mertesacker sidelined until Christmas and Gabriel Paulista out for around six weeks, pressure will remain for Wenger to dip into his back pocket and spend big on much needed defensive reinforcements.

If you put together all the time Arsène has spent giving us a Friday update on our little number 7's injury progress then it would probably outlast a Pink Floyd album.