Sentences with phrase «significant progress at»

Your puppy should be making significant progress at this point in his potty training efforts.

Four - time Le Mans winner Oliver Gavin agreed: «It's been a very good day, and I think we made some significant progress at the end of the session,» said the Briton.

In nulliparous women, a period of 8 hours of augmentation resulted in an 18 % cesarean delivery rate and no cases of birth injury or asphyxia, whereas if the period of augmentation had been limited to 4 hours, the cesarean delivery rate would have been twice as high given the number of women who had not made significant progress at 4 hours.

Not exact matches

«At the same time, we see significant momentum for alternative energy vehicles, an inferior competitive landscape and continued progress on Model 3 production driving more than 70 % top - line growth this year, easily one of the fastest ever by a multibillion - dollar company.

In a May SEC filing, Tesla said, «Although we continue to remain on track with our progress at Gigafactory 2, our expectations as to the cost of building the facility, acquiring manufacturing equipment and supporting our manufacturing operations may prove incorrect, which could subject us to significant expenses to achieve the desired benefits.»

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Franzel, in a speech at the American Accounting Association annual meeting in early August said that, despite the fact auditors have been making some progress in improving their audits of internal controls over company financial reporting, the regulator continues to see auditors having trouble meeting the standards and some firms still have significant work to do to meet the requirements of PCAOB auditing standards.

At the same time, we are continuing to build the real estate pipeline for each of our brands, including making significant progress on identifying potential sites for Eddie V's future expansion.

Examples of these risks, uncertainties and other factors include, but are not limited to the impact of: adverse general economic and related factors, such as fluctuating or increasing levels of unemployment, underemployment and the volatility of fuel prices, declines in the securities and real estate markets, and perceptions of these conditions that decrease the level of disposable income of consumers or consumer confidence; adverse events impacting the security of travel, such as terrorist acts, armed conflict and threats thereof, acts of piracy, and other international events; the risks and increased costs associated with operating internationally; our expansion into and investments in new markets; breaches in data security or other disturbances to our information technology and other networks; the spread of epidemics and viral outbreaks; adverse incidents involving cruise ships; changes in fuel prices and / or other cruise operating costs; any impairment of our tradenames or goodwill; our hedging strategies; our inability to obtain adequate insurance coverage; our substantial indebtedness, including the ability to raise additional capital to fund our operations, and to generate the necessary amount of cash to service our existing debt; restrictions in the agreements governing our indebtedness that limit our flexibility in operating our business; the significant portion of our assets pledged as collateral under our existing debt agreements and the ability of our creditors to accelerate the repayment of our indebtedness; volatility and disruptions in the global credit and financial markets, which may adversely affect our ability to borrow and could increase our counterparty credit risks, including those under our credit facilities, derivatives, contingent obligations, insurance contracts and new ship progress payment guarantees; fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates; overcapacity in key markets or globally; our inability to recruit or retain qualified personnel or the loss of key personnel; future changes relating to how external distribution channels sell and market our cruises; our reliance on third parties to provide hotel management services to certain ships and certain other services; delays in our shipbuilding program and ship repairs, maintenance and refurbishments; future increases in the price of, or major changes or reduction in, commercial airline services; seasonal variations in passenger fare rates and occupancy levels at different times of the year; our ability to keep pace with developments in technology; amendments to our collective bargaining agreements for crew members and other employee relation issues; the continued availability of attractive port destinations; pending or threatened litigation, investigations and enforcement actions; changes involving the tax and environmental regulatory regimes in which we operate; and other factors set forth under «Risk Factors» in our most recently filed Annual Report on Form 10 - K and subsequent filings by the Company with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

The California Sustainable Winegrowing Alliance also presented its 2009 Wine Community Sustainability Report at the January 13 launch event in San Francisco, indicating that most of the 2004 goals have been achieved or significant progress has been made.

The completed sequencing of the seven wild rice varieties is a significant progress to drive further genome evolution and domestication,» explained Dr. Rod Wing, leader of the International Oryza Map Alignment Project (IOMAP), an AXA Chair holder at the International Rice Research Institute, Professor at the University of Arizona, and one of the lead scientists in the study.

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He has shown promise progressing through the ranks at Upton Park, and would not likely cost QPR a significant amount.

Arsenal will not and I repeat will not win any significant title for as long as Wenger plan on staying at the club we are regressing as a team and not progressing, No other manager in the world would be playing Ramsay on current form.

Manchester United are making significant progress in their transfer plans this summer, with the club trying hard to part with Marouane Fellaini at the end of the season.

At present, we have a very average goalkeeper in Almunia, with no - one to seriously challenge his position (Fabianski's too young, and I'm not sure he'll ever be good enough judging by his lack of any significant progress over the last year).

Bolton gave their ailing confidence levels a significant boost with progress in the Carling Cup during the week, as goals from Chris Eagles and loanee Gael Kakuta sealed a comfortable 2 - 0 win over Premier League rivals Aston Villa at Villa Park.

«I know that there are areas of the estate which require significant work, but we are making progress to improve accommodation - already 95 per cent of family homes are at the highest or second highest standard.»

«Despite significant progress over the last few years, the volume of business won by ethnic minority owned businesses in the UK remains small,» said Sara Todd, chair of Minority Supplier Development UK (MSDUK) and executive director at Merck Sharp & Dohme (MSD).

While our colleagues in Scotland have gone from one poor election result to the next, faced with a similar situation in 1997 the Welsh Conservatives have made significant progress, bouncing back to increase our share of the vote at each general election since and increasing our representation, taking 8 seats this year - two more than than in John Major's surprise election victory in 1992.

Progress and investment at the ECC North Campus are long overdue and this building is a significant step forward,» said Legislator Rath.

U.S. Rep. Jerrold Nadler, Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, State Senator Daniel Squadron, and Councilwoman Margaret Chin issued a joint statement expressing relief at the «significant progress» being made on quality of life issues at the Occupy Wall Street demonstration in the privately owned Zuccotti Park.

It is significant that he chose to reveal that plan (which doesn't really have any details yet) in front of an audience of potential 2020 Democratic candidates and national politicos at a Center for American Progress event in Washington, D.C., rather than here in New York, in front of the very people whose lives any policy change would impact.

For a disease that has languished in a kind of political never - never land for at least one human generation, leaving millions profoundly disabled, that is significant progress.

Nevertheless, the researchers headed by Mariya Ivanova have made some significant progress: by inserting foreign atoms into the crystal lattice, their membrane is more stable and can be used at lower temperatures.

«Although the 3D scanning technology has made significant progress in recent years, it is still a challenge to capture the geometry and shape of a real object digitally and automatically,» explains Mario Fritz, who leads the group «Scalable Learning and Perception» at the Max Planck Institute for Informatics.

A highly directional single photon source could lead to a significant progress in producing compact, cheap, and efficient sources of quantum information bits for future quantum technological applications,» said Prof. Ronen Rapaport, of the Racah Institute of Physics, The Department of Applied Physics, and the Center of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

«Despite significant progress made in reducing tobacco use within the general population, individuals with mental illness smoke at rates approximately twice that of adults without mental disorders and comprise more than half of nicotine - dependent smokers,» according to background information in the article.

At the same time, however, speakers noted significant progress in the past few years.

As for Cody, seven years after the onset of LKS, doctors haven't noticed any significant progress, and as of now, his family is planning to put him in adult handicapped housing when he finishes school at age 21.

Professor Howard Morris, School of Pharmacy and Medical Science at the University of South Australia said, «Significant progress has been made on the usefulness of BTMs in monitoring the efficacy of osteoporosis treatment.

The technologies required to launch small satellites at a low cost have progressed immensely during this century, and significant efforts are being made to develop satellite constellations to achieve a global communication network covering the entire Earth.

Pelini and her colleagues have made significant progress in this direction with their new study, «Climatic Warming Destabilizes Forest Ant Communities,» which looks at complex interactions of ant communities and their responses to warming.

Israeli startup Aidoc has made significant progress since the days it started out at IBT's Brainnovations accelerator program.

«It is at the intersection of disciplines that significant progress is made.»

At the end of its second year, RD - Connect has successfully achieved its objectives for the period and has made significant progress on the development of the central platform for omics data and the associated bioinformatics tools for data analysis, the integration of biobanks and registries, and the ethical framework for data sharing.

While not yet achieving ignition, scientists at LLNL and colleagues in the ICF Community have made significant progress in understanding the physics and developing innovative approaches to indirect drive fusion.

These professional societies also assist in identifying capable and visionary astronomers to meet the important challenges of working in short - and long - term positions at the federal agencies, particularly the NSF and NASA, where dedicated staff can have a significant effect on the progress of astronomy.

«Our results make significant progress to elucidate the nature of dark energy,» said Miguel Zumalacárregui, a theoretical physicist who is part of the Berkeley Center for Cosmological Physics at the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and UC Berkeley.

And although scientists have made significant progress in bioengineering the coffee plant, that type of genetic modification still has such negative connotations that there's not much of a market for GM coffee at present.

Progress may be slow at first, but with consistency, you will begin to see significant results after several weeks.

This is simply because progress is too slow at that point to notice a significant difference with even the best natural muscle - building supplements (including creatine).

Although the film is short at 86 minutes, even that seems too long — there is fully half - an - hour of scene - setting during which the story makes no progress before the two main characters find themselves on the island, and once they arrive there significant chunks of the time is filled with their rolling in the sand or with musical numbers designed to let Madonna strut her stuff.

«However, we at BESA are greatly encouraged by the serious attention the DFE's EdTech team are giving to this issue, and the fact that many schools say the situation will improve over the next year can be seen as significant progress,» she continued.

Frustrated by the lack of significant progress in school reform, the nation's governors met at the National Education Summit in Palisades, N.Y., last March to recommit themselves.

As an educator, I marveled at her ability to help children who came to her class with divergent skill levels all achieve significant progress in reading.

Give more authority to states to design their own accountability systems as long as they make «significant» progress in the proportion of students at or above the proficient level and are closing achievement gaps.

Management can view reports of real - time progress and identify bottlenecks at the click of a button as opposed to the traditional training methods, which according to another study by ATD, involves significant spending on external training resources.

The draft Code of Practice explains: «Where pupils continue to make inadequate progress, despite high - quality teaching targeted at their areas of weakness, the class teacher, working with the SENCO, should assess whether the child has a significant learning difficulty.

This study was a large scale, independent piece of research and showed that Explore members made significant academic and attitudinal progress compared to their peers at school.