Sentences with phrase «slow progress towards»

«Despite the ongoing crisis in incarceration rates, child removal rates and the overall slow progress towards closing the gap in health and wellbeing outcomes for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, the Turnbull Government has failed in its first opportunity to restore the cuts made by the Abbott Government in the 2014 Federal Budget to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Affairs funding.

Many felt the slow progress towards any tangible results for communities was directly due to the political climate.

Intense emotions and obsessive thinking often take us out of the present moment and slow our progress towards a life of passion, presence and purpose.

Mexico, with its serious air pollution, slow progress towards minimizing the sulfur content in its diesel fuel, and burgeoning fleet of cars, is in dire need of some clean fuels.

Supporters of the new policy can play all the semantic games they want (and they are apparently playing them quite successfully and persuasively with federal education officials), the new standards will slow progress towards closing the achievement gap.

That is the nature of science, slow progress towards more accurate suppositions.

Not only does this put low - income students behind their higher - income peers in regard to reading achievement, it also slows their progress towards meeting grade - level proficiency standards.

It slows your progress towards financial freedom because it forces you to work on the debt instead of saving for your goals.

Lorena Aguilar, Global Senior Gender Advisor for the International Union for Conservation of Nature, put it clearly when she stated that «climate change exacerbates existing inequalities and slows progress towards gender equality -LSB-...] gender equality is a prerequisite for sustainable development and poverty reduction -LSB-...] these inequalities are magnified by climate change.»

Not exact matches

It's a goal that many in the corporate America get behind, or at least pay lip service to; but in practice, progress towards more balanced workforces in many sectors, and especially at senior management levels, has been slow.

Are we witnessing a slow fracturing in this alignment as a result of both a perception in the United States of the growing irrelevance of Europe, as well as Europe's increased interest in being associated with China as it progresses towards becoming the world's largest economy?

«These targets must be the first step in a journey towards much greater sustainability; yet progress to date has been far too slow.»

But progress towards a common EU defence policy has been slow and uncertain.

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.

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.

Global progress towards tackling obesity has been «unacceptably slow,» with only one in four countries implementing a policy on healthy eating up to 2010, according to a major new six - part Series on obesity, published in The Lancet.

Professor Sahakian says: «We need a way of treating the cognitive symptoms of schizophrenia, such as problems with episodic memory, but slow progress is being made towards developing a drug treatment.

Progress towards the development of highly effective vaccines for malaria has been frustratingly slow, but a distinctive bright spot for malaria vaccine and immunology researchers is the availability of human experimental models of P. falciparum - infection and malaria immunity.

When experimenting with the tempo, you can go very slow (as slow as one pull up in a whole minute) or very fast, which can help you progress towards explosive pull up variations.

Still, the progress bar towards Legend moves absurdly slow, so I'll probably still be ranked Hero when Halo 4 hits no matter how much I play the game between now and then.

But by eight the roads are busy and it's frustratingly slow progress till we hit the dual carriageway towards Salamanca.

«With progress towards its statutory objectives of maximum employment and price stability disappointingly slow in the fall of 2010, most Committee members judged it appropriate to provide additional monetary accommodation.

However progress towards providing EBVs for Chiari malformation Syringomyelia is very slow due to the lack of data being sent to the Animal Health Trust.

We've become so accustomed to big name game projects being all about the stretch goals that this kind of progress — though steadily climbing towards the initial goal and then some — is just slow and dull by comparison.

With this more recent piece inspired by the gallery space Loesberg wanted to bisect the gallery, to slow down the viewer's progress towards the South wall.

What surprises me is that the debate over the «hockey stick» is well known to all the politicians pushing for the US to ratify Kyoto and they must know that the argument is slowing down progress towards their goals and costing a fortune in enhanced PR budgets.

Despite this the President did highlight his stern views on the slow progress of climate negotiations ahead of COP 17 to be held in Durban towards the end of next month.

Thanks to the painfully slow progress that has been made towards reducing our carbon emissions, there has been some surprisingly serious discussion -LSB-...]

«The current rate of progress towards closing the gender pay gap is too slow and gender pay gap reporting is an important step towards tackling both the symptoms and causes of gender inequality in the workplace.

However, few firms had taken sufficient action towards equal pay for employees, and progress on staff development was slow.

This sort of attitude can severely slow down your progress towards a new gig.

By doing a bit of work on your job search every day, you will make slow and steady progress towards your goal of finding a job.

Contact with the affair partner will likely confuse the unfaithful spouse about the genuine love they feel towards their spouse, and will slow or reverse any forward progress being made in the marriage.