Sentences with phrase «much of a headway»

That's what publishers have basically been doing so far, managing to push Amazon down a bit but they haven't made much of a headway lately.

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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.

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.

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.

It never made much headway beyond the environs of Boston.

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.

· 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

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.

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.

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.

For Byrne and Twigg, very much on the Blairite wing of the party, demotion is punishment for a summer of relative silence and an inability to make headway against a pair departments which aren't strangers to the odd gaffe,

It's not clear how much headway Torti has made on the culture of science at FDA, where reviewers have complained that their concerns about drug and device safety are often squelched.

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

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.

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 as proof of the Aakash tablet not making the headway that it had been hyped to do, companies such as Rajasthan and Manipur have refused the tablet and have opted for a much more expensive XO laptops made by nonprofit organization One Laptop Per Child (OLPC).

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.

I started the pen name books there, to take advantage of the sales ranking / visibility boost from Kindle Unlimited, and I returned them to KDP Select this August, after not gaining much headway in the other stores and after Amazon switched to Kindle Unlimited 2.0, a system that rewards novelists by paying based on total pages read.

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.

While we've made significant headway in the story, we've not had much of a chance to put Monster Hunter's online multiplayer to the test.

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.

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.

«Despite several years of highlighting the need for effective communications and outreach, we have really made very little headway, and I know that we can not delay action in this area much longer,» Dr. Pachauri wrote.

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

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.

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.

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.

GearBurn talked with the head of Huawei's South African unit, Charlene Munilall, about why it was the case that the country didn't see much headway for the Nexus 6P.

While the concept of todayâ $ ™ s graduates doing internships is a much - debated issue, a more worrying trend established in the US appears to be gaining headway this side of the pond: interns (or their parents) who pay large sums of money to secure unpaid work placements.

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.