Sentences with phrase «pace of progress»

And despite the slow pace of progress in engaging congregations in ministry, we are yet hopeful because the vision is beginning to be shared.

The slow pace of progress did not bother me because I knew I was in for the long haul.

Does it prevent us from connecting and leading our people, creating goals to get to the next level or keeping up with the fast pace of progress and learn a new skill?

Our greatest concern may be the slow pace of progress.

Francis Collins of the University of Michigan, who was a co-discoverer of the cystic fibrosis gene, told a working group on genetics that if it was not «very forward looking», society could be caught off guard by the rapid pace of progress.

The torrid pace of progress in information technology, so the story went, had increased the demand for the highly skilled and educated.

Many have bemoaned the glacial, circular and halting pace of progress in the UN climate negotiations.

The prime minister is handing firms like Google, Bing, Yahoo! and others a deadline of October to act, amid frustration in Downing Street at the slow pace of progress by search engines in taking steps against child porn.

Katherine Rake, director of the Fawcett Society, said: «This letter demonstrates the rising tide of concern amongst unions and equality charities about the slow pace of progress towards equal pay for women.

«With the recent approvals of daratumumab, ixazomib, and now elotuzumab, we have seen an unprecedented pace of progress in myeloma therapy this year.

This is due in no small part to the runaway pace of progress in biotechnology, which has led to innovations such as chemistry labs shrunken down to fit on a computer chip.

After winning the mayor's race in 2005, Villaraigosa wasn't about to accept this glacial pace of progress.

A new report from the Center on Education Policy indicates that under the current pace of progress, it could take decades for lagging students to match the performance of their top - performing counterparts.

The slow pace of progress cries out for an alternative international policy framework under which governments could collaborate on goals that advance sustainability.

The programs capture the interconnecting discoveries and rapid pace of progress that led to more and better aircraft.

It's called «I Get Frustrated With the Slow Pace of Progress in Economics and Finance.»

It is right that we commemorate 100 years since women were first given the vote and the progress made by society towards achieving gender equality, but we must acknowledge the slow pace of progress and how far we still have to go.

The pace of progress, progress in the direction of more openness to capital flows and greater exchange rate flexibility, will depend in part on the pace at which these governments are able to strengthen the resilience of the domestic financial system and set in place the broader institutional framework and supervisory regime that are vital for an open economy.

Some were frustrated with the pace of progress and had doubts about new leader John Krafcik, while others wanted to start their own autonomous vehicle companies, people familiar with the matter said.

And yet Dumas is impatient with the pace of progress, and angry about some signals coming from Ottawa.

While dreams of moon - bases and lunar colonies may have been ignited by the success of Apollo 11, our sole reliance on the government to forge our future in space has, unfortunately, left many disappointed with the pace of progress.

Thus, the bottom line is that the pace of the progress of Russia's pivot to Asia has significant implications for anyone aiming to sell gas in Asia in the 2020s and beyond and that includes Canada.

If Americans continue to enjoy $ 2 per gallon - type pricing for much of the next decade or two, the pace of progress will be slow because the status quo will be satisfying enough.

True, the majority of mental hospital doors are still locked and new facilities such as «day hospitals» are scarce, but the pace of progress is accelerating each year.

In a few days time, and with a short drive down the east - bound carriageway M62, Louis van Gaal will be celebrating one - and - a-half years as manager of Manchester United, and while he too has certainly made his own presence known at Old Trafford, the results on the field haven't always met expectations, and the pace of progress has been slow.

He and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D - N.Y., also each discussed the pace of progress of appropriations bills as the measures compete for time with nominations on the Senate floor...

DOUBT FROM THE LEFT: AT PROGRESSIVE GATHERING, HINTS OF ANXIETY ABOUT OBAMA... On a host of issues from National Security Agency surveillance to Wall Street reform to foreclosure assistance to the Keystone XL pipeline debate, attendees at Netroots Nation expressed dismay about the compromises and slow pace of progress that have so far marked the Obama administration.

But the pace of progress in talks with two rookie legislative leaders and a governor with waning popularity has been slow.

«The whole international community must up the pace of progress,» he urges.

The unusual campaign by the New York State Common Retirement Fund, announced early Wednesday, reflects its growing impatience with the pace of progress on gender diversity in the boardroom.

She lamented that the lack of research data on gender - based violence which could help take scientific decisions is hampering the pace of progress.

In the past two decades he has been unimpressed with the pace of progress in the Hartford school system, and «a lot of that stems from the action, or lack thereof, from the board of education,» he said.

But the unreliability of silicon transistors smaller than about 10 nanometers means the pace of progress in silicon - based computing will soon slow.

Nicolelis attributes those departures to frustration with the slow pace of progress.

The pace of progress is staggering.

The goal is to double the pace of progress, or as he put it: «to make a decade worth of advances in 5 years.»

30 INFORMATION OVERLOAD Futurist Ray Kurzweil talks expansively about the coming «singularity,» a moment when human and machine intelligence become indistinguishable and the pace of progress accelerates unimaginably.

In his new book, The Road to Reality, he focuses on the very biggest questions in physics — and there the pace of progress can look agonizingly slow.

Now stem cells are being combined with gene and immune therapies, compounding the pace of progress.

When you are a scientist, it is often too easy to see your life in the lab, warts and all — the repetitiveness, the slow pace of progress, the lack of funding.

While the ESFRI road map gave the field of infrastructures a big boost, frustration about the pace of progress has been growing.

Massimo Osanna, appointed this month as head of the Special Superintendency for the Archaeological Heritage of Naples and Pompeii, which is in charge of the site's conservation, says that although a longer time frame would be preferable, criticism of the pace of progress is unfair.

The pace of progress with neuroendocrine cancers can be many years, even with metastatic disease.

Collaboration is vital to hasten the pace of progress in science.

Cancer Research UK and the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) are launching an international alliance to speed the pace of progress against cancer.

To accelerate the pace of progress, NIH StrokeNet brings together teams of research experts specializing in prevention, treatment and recovery.

Harvard Graduate School of Education Professor Thomas Kane, a Senior Fellow with the Brookings Institution's Brown Center on Education Policy, recently published «Frustrated with the pace of progress in education?

And while the pace of progress on NAEP has slowed over the past six years, some states and districts continued to make major gains.

Private initiative and enterprise would quicken the pace of progress in this area as it has in so many others.