Sentences with phrase «little progress toward»

Unfortunately, while NAFTA has served to increase cross-border trade in general, little progress toward true energy market integration has been made over the past 15 years.

The conservative strategy sessions come as EPA has shown little progress toward setting up the controversial idea after Pruitt floated it earlier this year.

A new report from the American Council for an Energy - Efficient Economy ranks the United States ninth in energy efficiency among the dozen major economies assessed and finds «limited or little progress toward greater efficiency at the national level.»

Billions had been spent on the war on cancer, yet scientists had made little progress toward a cure.

An international deal to combat climate change is meant to be agreed in December but a meeting in Bonn, Germany, last week ended with little progress toward an agreement to keep average temperature rises within 2C.

By 1994 the General Accounting Office (GAO, now known as the Government Accountability Office) issued a report concluding that the «FAA has made little progress toward meeting the [1990] act's goal for deploying new explosive detection systems.»

This backdrop makes policy progress very unlikely as domestic politics drive the agenda [leading to] limited room for country - level structural reform [and] little progress toward EU or eurozone reform or integration.»

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If you've been paying your bills and debts haphazardly until now, you may not know exactly how much — or how little — progress you're making toward debt repayment each month.

They start from such radically different assumptions, and they perceive the problems so differently, that within the mainline churches there has been little or no progress toward resolving the issue.

«Some of these measures might make some difference; a few could be counterproductive; most are likely to accomplish little in promoting progress toward religious liberty.»

«Such compromises happen when proprietary concerns get in the way of either of these responsibilities, as in delaying a student's progress toward a degree or deflecting a research program from important, broad questions to questions of little concern outside a company's specific development program.»

While the latter is technically a little better for her body and digestive system, it sabotaged her progress toward a healthier weight until we discovered this issue.

Unfortunately, in much of the country little progress has been made toward fulfilling the educational potential of information and communications technologies.

They also built a suite of authoring tools that enables item developers with little or no technical experience to draft complex items that measure learner's progress toward college - and career - ready goals.

These less formal measures of student progress were described by a 2011 Education Week article as «things that don't normally end up in the grade book — they're little feedback loops signaling the amount of progress we're making toward the end goal.»

When the end of the month comes along, you realize that you have very little desire to take stock of your progress toward your various goals.

You watch the little dots on an ocean chart progress from your point of departure toward landfall, and it's a great feeling to know that something incredible is being accomplished.

Until the real obstacle has been addressed, little progress will be made toward solving the real problem.

However, despite recommendations for unified family courts made in 1968, 1972, 1976 and 1978, little progress was made toward their implementation in Alberta until 1999 when the government decided to solicit public input on a range of justice issues.

It is difficult to contemplate what Illinois needs in the next fiscal year when we still do not have a budget for this fiscal year; not only does Illinois not have a budget eight months into FY2016, there seems to be little sense of urgency to pass a budget and a path toward progress seems elusive.