Sentences with phrase «sluggish progress»

In response to sluggish progress on effective international action, national carbon pricing initiatives for the aviation sector have been popping up recently to ensure airlines pay for their pollution.

She pointed to the district's 60 percent graduation rate and sluggish progress as reasons a change is needed.

For REDD Proponents, No Regrets examines the early success of REDD pilot projects despite sluggish progress made in securing policy and financial support at the national and international levels.

Texas Republican Rep. Mac Thornberry, vice chairman of the House Armed Services Committee and a backer of cybersecurity reform, lamented to POLITICO last week that Snowden had slowed what was already sluggish progress on both cyber and defense appropriations bills.

After millennia of sluggish progress, humans abruptly showed signs of complex culture about 30,000 years ago.

In some industries, you have to fight against decades of inertia and sluggish progress; in others, you have to fight traditionalism and entrenched modes of thinking.

«But given the sluggish progress in the international climate policy arena, it is going to be extremely difficult.»