Sentences with phrase «made much headway»

In the mid-seventies in Australia, or at least in my area, opportunities for women really hadn't made much headway, so at seventeen and in discussion with my school career teacher, I finally put my dream into words, confiding that I would like to be a journalist.

Before they'd made much headway, they'd start getting alerts it was time for bed.

So far the internet of things hasn't made much headway into patient care in the medical setting, but consumers are buying wellness devices for a variety of reasons.

«Legal research has not made much headway in India even in comparison with other social science researches.

The reason that nuclear power has not made much headway in the last 30 years, is because it's proven, in the eyes of the investment community, to be a bad risk — economically.

Various panelists and keynote speakers urged librarians to be patient with the publishers who as of yet have not made much headway with the ALA on how to deliver bestselling titles for digital lending.

Whether it's the latest title from a legacy publisher's hottest author, or a graduate - level biochemistry textbook, there is a severe disillusion on the part of the reading public that ebooks should automatically be exponentially cheaper than print books, and it's a topic that hasn't made much headway in the last several years.

So far, the Trump administration has not made much headway on expanding school choice.

The detectives (Andre Royo and Shea Whigham) haven't made much headway, and they don't even bother returning Lila's calls.

But LEDs still have not made much headway in our homes and offices, where the general lighting provided by incandescents and fluorescents is still superior.

It never made much headway beyond the environs of Boston.

UK Prime Minister Theresa May then unexpectedly announced elections to be held in June, meaning the scheduled two years of negotiations to determine the terms of the United Kingdom's departure seemed unlikely to make much headway until after the results of the UK vote — and probably the German elections as well — were known.

It was unable to make much headway in the Persian realms where the espousal of Zoroastrianism by the state restrained it.

Yet clearly both are of such paramount importance that we shall not make much headway without them.

If voters like Mitt Romney, Democratic attacks on his record at Bain won't make much headway.

But it was a much more resilient and organised peformance from the Gunners than we have seen in the two previous away gamesd this season, and it paid off as the home team were frustrated as they struggled to make much headway or even enjoy more of the ball.

That left Germany with no real focal point up front and so despite completely dominating possession they were unable to make much headway in front of goal.

However, after struggling to make much headway in the final third, the Super League XI began to grow into the game and almost broke the deadlock as Martinez tested Rimando with a fine effort.

· Adekoya looked strong on the ball, but no one on the second team was able to make much headway against a back four of Jones, Alfaro, Torres, and Fisher

He has been a top target of the Senate Democrats, though, given the vagaries of Western New York politics (in which Democrats can often be mistaken for conservatives), they were unable to make much headway last year.

I can not see the SNP making much headway in an election where the emphasis will be on national, rather than devolved, matters.

A series of articles in the radical Jacobin magazine also point to the failure of other progressive champions such as George McGovern and Howard Dean to make much headway inside a party dominated by the Washington establishment.

The reason why the government is not making much headway, therefore, is neither the Senate nor the judiciary.

For the most part, a healthy immune system stops Epstein - Barr virus from making much headway, Luftig said.

«We are deeply concerned that the negotiation is not making much headway,» U.N. Secretary - General Ban Ki - moon told the Guardian newspaper last week.

Perhaps this failure to make much headway can be put down to researchers» fear of being labelled «non-scientific» or too anthropomorphic.

When they don't make much headway in the case they are made to cooperate with special agent Ileana.

He also argued that Republican efforts to curtail union power in the states are unlikely to make much headway.

Legal experts who wish to circumvent the recent Supreme Court decision by shifting from race to family income clearly have yet to make much headway in the court of public opinion.

I wasn't planning to rehash it here because we all said our piece and frankly didn't make much headway on the enlightenment front.

I think a smaller truck like on old S10 would do ok but it would need to be RWD in the States to make much headway just do to the market here and their wants and desires.

Between modest starting salaries and student loan burdens, it may not seem that people in their 20s can make much headway towards retirement savings.

While this is a good thing, it doesn't seem to be making much headway here because it is alienating the some people who do not have experience in the traditional way of trading forex.

Even so, there was still a fine line between being quick through corners and not making much headway on my deficit to the leader.

I hope we don't end - up regretting it too badly but by convincing ourselves that science must not be self - falsifiable, as is the case with the IPCC's position regarding scientific research into the causes of climate change, I'm afraid we are destined to do a lot of wheel spinning at great costs before we really make much headway in a truly conscious approach to our world's sustaining systems.

It illustrates why the scientific arguments that CO2 is not the problem are not making much headway — they're very complicated.

The proposition sceptics make is that the «hockey stick» is just too convenient and came along when those trying to make a case against fossil fuels were not making much headway.

Judging from the reactions of names that I recognize, you are not making much headway with very many of the Threes.

If that was too much work, I doubt you'll make much headway with the code.

Gaming is one area that's attracted consumer interest in virtual reality and augmented reality devices, but Vaunt isn't likely to make much headway in that market.

While the upper end of Android is dominated by the likes of Samsung and Google, which will make it tough for the V10 to make much headway once it lands in the states, the $ 199 Honor 7X will be hard to overlook for bargain hunters.

But even a Linux distro like Ubuntu doesn't make much headway in any substantial numbers.

Yu notes that some 90 percent of all smartphones sales in the U.S. are handled by carriers, and a lack of presence in at least one of the big four's stores makes it nearly impossible to make much headway.

Unfortunately I didn't make much headway and was soon escalated to Technical Support Team Manager after I sent a follow up to Paessler's CEO, Dirk Paessler.

Ross Gittins also addressed this in a detailed analysis of the economics of why, despite the money we are spending on «closing the gap», we aren't making much headway.

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But with Amazon making so much headway in acquiring content on its own, the company may not even need to purchase Netflix to expand.

Simply put, lifting heavy isn't fun... but neither is spending an hour or so in the gym every day and not feeling like I'm making as much headway as I should.

For its part, Canada needs to demonstrate that it can reach an agreement with Europe if it is to have much hope of making headway in trade negotiations with emerging markets in Asia.

I'm working on the planning part, and probably won't make too much headway till I'm back from NY, but at least I can keep strategizing and doing little things till then!

Another excellent player who surprisingly struggled to make any headway at Udinese, Antonio Candreva joined the club from Ternana in 2007 but he spent much of the next five years on loan at other Italian teams.