Sentences with phrase «of dramatic progress»

«The alliance is very proud of the dramatic progress that has been made in the fight against pet homelessness.

To which Green added, «I think the speed is profound, and that [China] is capable of dramatic progress.

Such a response is no longer valid in the light of the dramatic progress that has been made during the last decade in treating mental illness (see Chap.

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That dramatic progress has sparked a burst of activity.

After a long stretch characterized by ultra-low interest rates, slow growth, minimal inflation, cheap oil, and little policy progress due to a conflicted Congress, we are now doing a dramatic 180 degree turn to a lower tax, less regulation, pro-growth environment, with higher rates and higher inflation — a normalization of sorts.

The most successful viral crowdfunding campaigns often have specific emotional pulls: dramatic stories presented by video, the ability to track the progress of where your donation is going, or a sense of familiarity with the person in need (think sites like GoFundMe).

From this primary and basic signification, the term progressed in meaning and came to be applied not only to the mask of the actor, but also to the dramatic character represented by the mask.

The inspired writers introduced dramatic roles as a way of allowing the most significant characters of Scripture to manifest themselves and to speak, and so to progress the Biblical narrative from within.

In Europe itself, the forces of secularization, allied with economic affluence, have made dramatic progress in alienating the popular mind from the Christian origins of Western culture.

For all the joy of England's dramatic victory over Wales, they remain very much a work in progress.

And in three years my friends, you have reversed decades of decline and made dramatic and undeniable progress.»

Nearly 2,000 AFSCME members will be in town today to lobby state lawmakers in hopes of getting them to reject Gov. Andrew Cuomo's «dramatic» cuts to education and health care, which unions says will disproportionately hurt the state's most vulnerable residents, raise unemployment and undermine progress made in the recovery of New York's economy.

«From its inception to now, the proposed text amendment tells the story of Build it Back's dramatic progress under Mayor de Blasio's leadership: the idea for the amendment came out of a community - level meetings in Queens, it was produced with collaboration across agencies, and it is being passed to help homeowners who were stuck because of burdensome regulations so that they can begin rebuilding their homes and making their neighborhoods more resilient,» said AMY PETERSON, Director of the Mayor's Office of Housing Recovery.

But this dramatic rise masks progress in recent years; since 2005, health loss due to HIV / AIDS has diminished by 23.9 % because of global focus on the disease.

In a particularly dramatic example of this line of argument — which some have questioned — NIH Director Francis Collins has said that progress on an Ebola vaccine has been hindered by flat budgets.

This dramatic progress has been accomplished through investments made by the U.S., Europe, and Japan during the 1970s on a new, more powerful class of tokamak experiment.

Dramatic progress has been made in recent years in understanding the fundamental reaction of photosynthesis.

One recent advance in cell - based therapies is the dramatic progress of chimeric antigen receptor T (CAR - T) cell therapies in the treatment of certain blood cancers.

The changes will be most dramatic in the beginning, but as you get leaner, maintaining a steady rate of progress will demand more and more patience and willpower.

I was lucky enough to be able to track my progress via Litholink testing and was able to see the dramatic results of dietary changes within the vegetarian category.

Though Jake and Justine begin their new relationship on estranged footing, director Ross Katz is never estranged from the strengths of Adult Beginners — a cast that can operate equally well in dramatic and comedic situations, a smart script from Kroll and genuine moments of emotional and intellectual progress.

The film's lighter tone becomes more somber as the strike progresses, slowing the narrative pace to a crawl and making the middle section of the story feel sluggish before developing events push things along to a dramatic finish.

Next, the students bring in canceled catalogs to school and place them in bins according to their grade level, which creates a dramatic «barometer» of their progress.

Tough presents particularly compelling narratives about the progress of one Promise Academy elementary school and the middle school, the former achieving dramatic increases in test scores, and the latter temporarily closing its doors to new students as a result of poor (albeit improving) performance.

While the gains among these initial 3rd graders are not as dramatic as the 4th grade gains which had captured national attention, Winters found «the gains among initial 3rd graders were very substantial,» about 0.36 standard deviations between 1998 and 2009, or roughly a full additional year of academic progress.

Some of the world's most impoverished countries have made dramatic progress in their quest to ensure that all children get a basic education, but political indifference, failed domestic policies, and broken financial promises have pushed the international goal of universal schooling off target, according to UNESCO.

At the end of the lesson, unit, or year, one teacher's students have made dramatic academic progress, while the other teacher's students have not.

The past few years have seen a dramatic and meaningful expansion of broadband access and availability of digital tools, yet despite this progress, there are still inequities in access.

, is the result of an investigation into whether the dramatic gains in math and reading scores on the Texas Assessment of Academic Skills (TAAS) represented actual academic progress.

They have proved very popular with students as a way of developing their confidence of the maths content within physics unit 1 resulting in dramatic progress in this area.

Later, however, he cited the dramatic rise in PARCC scores in the system as proof of progress.

«It is going to have a dramatic impact on progress reports and school report card rates,» said Edward Tom, the principal of the Bronx Center for Science and Mathematics, a small, high - performing school.

«When a school continues to perform in the bottom five percent of the state and isn't showing signs of progress or has graduation rates below 60 percent over a number of years, something dramatic needs to be done,» said Duncan.

The «skinny» budget also strips states and districts of flexibilities available under ESSA before they can ever be used, limiting the ability of Chiefs to affect meaningful change that will improve teaching and learning and lead to dramatic progress in academic outcomes for all kids.

Students make dramatic academic progress when, from the very beginning, teachers develop a clear, ambitious vision of success.

Some of the most dramatic progress has been made in the area of graduation requirements, where 13 states, up from just two in 2004, now require high school students to complete a college - and work - ready curriculum in order to earn a diploma.

In a digital age in which technology is a central part of kids» lives, leaders in the expanded learning - time movement need to embrace a «mind shift» so that the United States can make dramatic progress by building a system of expanded digital learning, one based on pragmatic changes that acknowledge the ways learning is happening in the 21st century.

Dramatic changes in children's school progress can be realized when educators take the initiative to change this exclusionary pattern to one of collaboration.

Progress comes at a cost of the old engine's intoxicating wail and instantaneous throttle response, but let's not be overly dramatic: The 488 still sounds delicious and revs so quickly that the LED shift lights on the steering wheel rarely have time to rest.

Materials progress, always a factor in advancing the capabilities of engineering and technology, figures here too: BMW has drawn upon innovative and heat - resistant materials from space technology to facilitate the twin turbos» dramatic contribution to performance.

Here are details of how this dramatic progress was achieved — over an engine that was already outstanding in all these respects:

Progress has been slower than anticipated but a few meaningful contract wins and dramatic improvement in profitability over the past six months has rocketed the company's share price to $ 0.245 at the end of December.

As the heart disease progresses, the signs of it become more dramatic.

In this work, the artist's objective is not to use substitutive instrument to create unique works; instead, he intends to emphasize on the dramatic result of «death after creation,» and discusses the more and more intense relationship between man and nature in the progress of civilization.

So I progress in small steps instead of dramatic leaps when redefining my style.

For the evening, the President of Iceland, Guðni Jóhannesson, invited some Icelandic government members (including Prime Minister Sigurður Jóhannsson and Foreign Minister Lilja Alfreðsdóttir) and a handful of scientists to his mansion for a dinner in honor of Ban Ki - moon, where we further discussed the dramatic climate changes in the Arctic and the progress of climate policy.

The Hemp Industries Association (HIA) Few commercial interests ever make the kind of dramatic and ongoing progress achieved by Industrial Hemp over the past few years.

The Paris Agreement provides an important new foundation for meaningful progress on climate change, and represents a dramatic departure from the past 20 years of international climate negotiations.

The progress of visible minority lawyers can be seen in the dramatic increase in the percentage of lawyers between the ages of 25 and 34 who are members of a visible minority: two per cent in 1981, three per cent in 1986, six per cent in 1991, 11 per cent in 1996, 17 per cent in 2001, and 20 per cent in 2006.

Each Fellow will become part of a global network of leaders identified by Echoing Green as dramatic, scalable, and important to the progress of the world.