Sentences with phrase «of little progress»

At first it felt like the future, but after two years of little progress it has very much stalled.

After almost a decade of little progress, we reiterate that sentiment.

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«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.»

And most of all, the industry needs to work with the FAA, rather than rail against it — otherwise, little progress will occur.

Secondly, he noted «the root causes of the global crisis have not been prop ¬ erly tackled» with the financial system remaining «the Achilles heel of the world economy» and thirdly, «little progress is being made in reducing working poverty and vulnerable forms of employment such as informal jobs and undeclared work.»

«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.

The only way... you as a company can make progress is by acquisitions,» says Stanford's Pfeffer, who points out that HP and Microsoft have also made careers of gobbling up the little guys.

Moody's studied 37 oil and gas companies in Canada and the U.S., concluding that although the oil industry has dramatically slashed its cost of production in the past three years and is currently in the midst of posting much better financials this year, there is little room left for more progress.

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.

And in his January 1937 inaugural address Roosevelt said, «The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little.»

«The idea that you would deny protection for 50,000 people because there are a few bad apples who wouldn't be eligible for Temporary Protected Status in the first place, makes little to no sense,» Tom Jawetz, the vice president of immigration policy at the Center for American Progress, a liberal research organization told NBC News.

A number of media outlets, including several TV networks, have tried to present a united front and argue that penning journalists up is not acceptable conduct in a country where press freedom is enshrined in the Constitution, but so far they have made little progress.

«There is progress, but it's maybe a little bit underwhelming,» says Julian Togelius, the co-director of the NYU Game Innovation Lab.

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.

The bright spots are the U.S. economy, which will accelerate as the year progresses, the economy of Japan, the third largest economy in the world, and the United Kingdom's economy is starting to look a little stronger.

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.

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.

Despite all of this collective data and momentum, we have seen little, if any, progress in the private equity and venture capital space.

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.

Talks between Neiman Marcus and its suitor Hudson's Bay Co (HBC.TO), the owner of high - end department store Saks Fifth Avenue, had made little progress because of this issue, Reuters reported in May.

If this scenario of a third bear market were to play out, the 35 year old investor born in 1965 would have seen the S&P 500 make very little progress during their peak earning years.

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.

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!!!!

♦ Then there's Sandy Newman, president of Voices for Progress, writing to John Podesta in 2012 when the HHS mandate was announced: «This whole controversy with the bishops opposing contraceptive coverage even though 98 % of Catholic women (and their conjugal partners) have used contraception has me thinking... There needs to be a Catholic Spring, in which Catholics themselves demand the end of a middle ages dictatorship and the beginning of a little democracy and respect for gender equality in the Catholic church.

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.

But even though we may have to endure a spiritual odyssey and may meet many unexpected obstacles, we ought to make a little more progress than those who have merely been indoctrinated with a little external Christianity which expressed itself merely in a bored attendance at Sunday Mass, perhaps an Easter confession and the receiving of the last sacraments.

«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.»

And what was once a little quip or comment explodes, which is when the yelling starts, and any hope of any actual communication, progress or civility is tossed out the window.

Dharius Daniels, a board member of the National Association of Evangelicals and pastor of the predominantly black Kingdom Church in Ewing, N.J., says the case was «a mirror that could show the country not just how much or how little we've progressed, but where — in terms of now, in terms of this point in history — our efforts and our focus and our attention needs to be.»

I hope that the direction I propose would move us forward, a little bit, along the line of progress thus indicated.

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»).

But isn't this fact in itself a reflection of the fact that process theism has made relatively little progress in the church as a whole, in spite of having been the leading theological option in most nonconservative seminaries for a number of years?

In Calvin there is the zeal to improve society; but there is a much too complacent view of the righteousness of Christians, and too little awareness of the elements of value and relative progress in the life of purely secular society.

When, little more than a century ago, Man first discovered the abyss of time that lies behind him, and therefore the abyss that lies ahead, his first feeling was a tremendous hope, a sense of wonderment at the progress our fathers had made.

Firstly the idea that little of scientific consequence occurred during the period due to a mindset that was «darkened» through a belief in God, and secondly that the Catholic Church held back scientific progress in this period for it only to be liberated through the advance of a more «scientific» and secular age.

He believes that sexuality is «one area where, because of the profound element of «mystery» in inter-personal relationships, the secular kind of pragmatism has little to offer» (A.G. Woollard, Progress: A Christian Doctrine?

The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little.

The speech also includes in its present form some indication of the relatively slow progress of the occupation and acquisition of Canaan: «Little by little I will drive them out from before you» (vs. 30); and it refers to some force, designated as «hornets» (vs. 28; seeLittle by little I will drive them out from before you» (vs. 30); and it refers to some force, designated as «hornets» (vs. 28; seelittle I will drive them out from before you» (vs. 30); and it refers to some force, designated as «hornets» (vs. 28; see Deut.

We just watched their progress as each day their home grew from a mess of moss and twigs to a sturdy little fortress, high and safe from the elements, with a lovely view of our garbage cans.

After about 45 mins of not making any progress I decided to shelf about a little under half of the dough.

As the food chain progresses, big fish eats little fish et cetera, the bigger fish end up consuming all of those chemicals and fish like tuna and salmon end up ridden with them.

I have even progressed to using raw beets which I wasnt sure if I'd like but now I'm hooked (a little cacao or squirt of lemon juice helps to counteract the «earthy» flavour of raw beets).

Love the progress photos, Still i'm a little bit scared of raw egg whites...

I have been a little scared to bake at home since I started the workouts two weeks ago out of fear that it would mess up my progress.

It's been easier with the warmer days and more frequent opportunities to make some progress, so a little cheers to spring's unavoidable vibe of opportunity seems just right today.

I enjoyed the convenience of this little gadget; it syncs with your iPhone, iPad, or iPod Touch (Android support coming soon), and lets you track the progress of your dinner without having to open the oven door.

With little progress having been made over recent weeks, Sterling has now revealed that he will make a decision at the end of the current campaign, after discovering whether or not the Reds will secure a second successive season of Champions League football.