Sentences with phrase «on decades of progress»

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«They go against the very principles our nation was founded on, and they have the potential to undo decades of progress toward greater equality.»

Having followed the nearly inconsequential progress of the mysterious Project Titan, I'm ready to say that if you insist on thinking Apple will be selling an actual car by the next decade, you're going to be disappointed.

The Passmark recent uptick — AMD has increased its share of the tests on the site for four quarters in a row — marks substantial progress after a decade of declining market share.

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.

In the last decades various organizations have grown up on this basis, such as the Universal Religious Alliance, International Religious Peace Conference, World Parliament of Religions, World Congress for Free Christianity and Religious Progress, Union of All Religions, World Congress of Faiths, and Fraternity of Religious Mankind, founded by Rudolf Otto.

«Since making that pledge [eliminating gestation crates by the year 2020], we have continued to survey our suppliers and communicate our desire that they be gestation - crate free by the end of this decade... As a next step, in 2014, we will ask our suppliers for annual progress reports on their efforts to comply with our plan so that we may evaluate where each supplier is with regard to reaching our goal.»

We're proud of the progress we've made over the past decade, and very pleased to be on track to meet our 2020 sustainability goals.»

And when you look back at the last decade, none of those youngsters have progressed in the way that they were hyped up to and yes I'm talking about the likes of Ramsey, Walcott, Jack Wheelchair and the Ox who all had a one season wonder of some sort, during one point in their Arsenal careers, thus far and We can't keep using this excuse for not buying ready made quality, which would instantly improve our chances of winning a major trophy or two, but No, Wenger wants to stick with a theory which clearly isn't working for us on the pitch, but he doesn't really care, as long as it works out well for saving the penny's and the pounds, in the place where it matters most for Arsenal fc, in the bank.

Not only that but this our only shot I starting a streak of at least a trophy each season... it's not the EPL or CL trophy but I think it's important to show that we have progressed on that regard after our decade long drought more so against one of our bitter rivals: It doesn't matter by how much or well we win the game but that ww WIN period!!

The 65 - year - old's thoughts are focused entirely on the Gunners progressing to the quarter - finals of Europe's prestigious competition — even with the tie to be the first time he has taken on his former French employers — over a decade after being dismissed.

At at the event on Wednesday, ESD President and CEO Howard Zemsky admitted upstate resurgence is a work in progress, saying there is «no silver bullet» to remedy four decades of economic decline.

Our review of the last decade shows that progress requires the hands - on participation of governments - not a «leave it to the market» approach.»

The thinktank Progress urges the new Labour leader to set out an agenda which is «post-Blair, not anti-Blair, building on the achievements of the past decade, not running away from them».

WOMEN IN SCIENCE Progress has been made on closing the gender gap in science - related fields, but it may be decades or even centuries before some disciplines have equal numbers of men and women, a new study suggests.

For the past decade, the AAAS Science and Human Rights Coalition has been eliciting the perspectives of scientists, engineers, and health professionals as to the meaning of the right to «enjoy the benefits of scientific progress and its applications» and associated obligations (Article 15, International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights).

After analyzing reams of publicly available data on casualties from Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan and decades of terrorist attacks, the scientists conclude that «insurgents pretty much seemed to be following a progress curve — or a learning curve — that's very common in the manufacturing literature,» says physicist Neil Johnson of the University of Miami in Florida and lead author of the study.

After decades of slow progress with doughnut - shaped reactors, magnetic fusion labs are gambling on a redesign.

Sharp - eyed reader Paul Marks spotted the following interesting paragraph in the Office of Science and Technology's Forward Look report on government spending on science: «Despite enormous progress over the past decade, software engineering still suffers from being too much of an art and not enough of a science and much remains to be done to establish it on a firmer scientific basis.»

There are a lot of very interesting ideas that are worthy of attention, and sometimes worthy of decades of attention, because they have such capacity to make progress on deep, unsolved questions.

For decades, progress in electronics has meant shrinking the size of each transistor to pack more transistors on a chip.

In the past decade we have witnessed enormous progress in experiments that consist of placing magnetic atoms at predetermined positions on substrates and building magnetic nanostructures one atom at a time.

This principle is well demonstrated here in the matter of amyloid, I think, given the past decade of theorizing on the degree to which the harm of Alzheimer's is due to amyloid, tau, or other causes, and the lack of progress on that front from theorizing alone.

Although they've made a lot of progress over the last decades, we still do not really know how climate is changing on a local scale.

Capitalizing on the momentum of progress made in rare diseases research over the past six years, the International Rare Diseases Research Consortium (IRDiRC) devised a new set of global rare disease goals for the upcoming decade.

After struggling with building muscle for close to a decade, I've made significant progress in the past few years, packing on 20 + pounds of muscle, learning handstands, and adding 200 + pounds to my deadlift.

Especially on the net, a few years of progress is like a few decades!

The collection veered away from Slimane territory as it progressed through decades of rocker style, ending in a series of bondage - inspired and sheer - fronted dresses that covered, at times, only the nipples — the kind of clothes one could expect to see on today's more daring female musical artists: Rihanna, Nicki Minaj, Miley Cyrus.

Coined by futurist Ray Kurzweil, Kurzweil's Law, otherwise known as the Law of Accelerating Returns, states that building on past accomplishments, the pace of technological change doubles every decade — leading to a Moore's Law vision of progress.

As card - carrying members of the Cuarón fan club («Y Tu Mama Tambien» was a blistering revitalization of his career; «Prisoner of Azkaban «was the best Harry Potter film by a country mile; and «Children of Men» is one of the finest films of its decade), we've been following the tortuous progress of «Gravity» for what feels like forever, as Cuarón had a bitch of a time financing this 3D - shot, effects - driven film, and suffered several casting knock backs as A-listers signed on and then off the project (Robert Downey Jr., Angelina Jolie, among others).

(In French with subtitles) Rebirth (Unrated) Post 9/11 documentary updates the progress made over the last decade of five, emotionally - scarred people trying to recover from the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center: a woman who lost her fiancé; a teenager who lost his mom; a firefighter who lost the rest of his company; a construction worker saddled with survivor's guilt over his deceased brother; and a badly - burned victim who has undergone 40 surgical procedures and counting.

The 10th annual report by Education Week examines the progress that states have made on a core set of policy indicators related to standards - based education over the past decade.

Moreover, DCPS students show impressive gains over the last decade, not only on district tests but also on National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) reading and math assessments.

Rick Hess and Paul Peterson, for example, have compared state cut scores for proficiency on their state tests to results on the U.S. Department of Education's National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) to show that the level of achievement required to be declared proficient in many states has been dropping over the last decade.

After collecting a decade of information on standards - based education policies, the report this year also takes stock of where states have made progress and where improvements are needed.

She said: «For me, I do worry that a return to more selection risks undermining the progress that we have seen over the course of the last decade in our schools, by throwing something else into the education debate rather than focusing on every school offering an excellent education.»

During the last decade, the amount of nonfiction included in literature textbooks and on national reading tests such as the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) has been increasing.

Margaret Raymond and Eric Hanushek investigated state - level trends on the National Assessment of Educational Progress and found that the largest gains were among states that adopted accountability systems during the past decade.

Reading scores on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) have been level for four decades.

The performance of the nation's high school seniors on the National Assessment of Educational Progress has declined in reading over the past decade and is showing no signs of improvement.

Almost two decades after, destruction of material goods are still visible together with many symptoms of traumatized society: high level of organized crime, drug abuse, domestic violence, violence on streets, suicides, poverty and illnesses, feeling of insecurity, fears, anger and hate; difficulties to reach political solutions, reconcile divided groups, make the progress.

The fact that overall funding progressivity remains low despite two decades of reforms suggests a troubling lack of progress on equitable funding of public schools.

Similarly, the National Education Association (NEA) reports, «General achievement [on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP)-RSB- has increased little over the past three decades, particularly in the upper grades.»

The results on the Smarter Balanced assessments, the centerpiece of the California Assessment of Student Performance and Progress, or CAASPP, were released on Sept. 9 and showed the vast achievement gaps that decades of education reforms have failed to close.

There will be panel discussions on the progress our country has made in achieving equality of educational opportunity in the decades since the publication of the Coleman Report and the options for making greater strides in the future.

Over the past two decades, gains of 1.6 percent of a standard deviation have been garnered annually by 4th - and 8th - grade students on the math, science, and reading tests administered by the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), known as the nation's report card.

Loveless concludes: «The past two decades of education reform in the U.S. have focused on ratcheting up expectations through standards and testing and holding schools accountable for academic progress.

Despite promises to be internationally benchmarked, Common Core reneged on its promise and placed Algebra 1 firmly into the high school, reversing a decade of progress across the land and putting us one or more years behind our international competitors.

In the decade following that event, the news media regularly reported on the progress of that law and the controversies surrounding its implementation.

It's possible to develop a pretty good picture of how schools and districts are doing using samples of students and samples of test items — that's what the National Assessment of Educational Progress has been relying on for decades — and there's nothing magical about a school year that makes it the inevitable time period over which to assess changes in school and district performance.

But it is a tad difficult to take the president seriously on his commitment to systemic reform in light of his effort to eviscerate the No Child Left Behind Act and its Adequate Yearly Progress provisions that have helped spur a decade of systemic reforms.