Sentences with phrase «there lack of progress»

Clearly, there lack of progress had not been from a lack of sincere effort.

- Why was there a lack of progress?

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«While communities like Englewood have been plagued by crime, poverty, and a severe lack of opportunity, there is in fact a long - term movement underway to revitalize these neighborhoods and return the story to one of hope, resilience and progress,» said Rodney Hines, director for community investments for Starbucks U.S. Retail Operations.

«In view of the lack of progress hitherto in bringing the perpetrators to justice, and recent developments which may complicate the investigation, there is a growing sense that Canada should contribute a more active police role to track the Afghan investigation and determine next steps,» said an email from the Canadian embassy to Foreign Affairs headquarters, dated March 28, 2007.

Robotics and automation has prospered in many manufacturing industries but there has been limited progress in food production because of a lack of enabling technologies leading to islands of automation.

for me i am jst so shocked that arsenal have a set style to dominate and when they are dominated by munich or barca (games you expect to be chasing shadows) there is just no plan B — they do nt hold there shape they do nt do anythign urgent if anything solidified my want for wenger to go was Wednesdays performance — another year gone and no progress made also the lack of depth — ozil needs to be dropped but who replaces him??? — we cant replace him so we just keep playing him and hope he comes good again

In fact, come to think about it Chambers also impressed me when he first came on the scene but it seems all these players regress instead of progress under Wenger's coaching (or lack there of).

Arsenal will not progress until a forward thinking board, owner and managers are in place, clearly this club is just a money making venture for the greedy Stan who cares only for his pocket, wenger sadly is his puppet and gazidis is the silent partner, turmoil and lack of profit in business is a sure thing to sell and move on, this is needed so we / us supporters have a voice and direction in our club, the previous board are to blame for selling to Kroenke & co we are now reaping the benefits of ill thought, blinded, pathetic former directors who were only interested in profits not the club, we are a laughing stock, i will be happy if we finish mid table with this lot... when you are on the bottom there is only one way to go..

In the States, from what I've seen (not all of them of course, but Michigan, California, Texas, and Alaska, on - base and off), there lacks a middle ground for a normally progressing pregnancy with no indication of complications or risks.

The Muslim community, particularly the Zongo remains a disadvantaged community and that is why there is so much poverty, there is so much redundancy and lack of progress and it is reflecting in the attitudes of the people within the Zongo.»

The lack of progress on Destiny's hotel plans does not mean that there won't be a hotel close to the shopping mall soon.

The key findings from the report were: • There are opportunities to improve links between transport, health and wellbeing, but progress is being hampered by a lack of strategic integration nationally and joint working locally.

As one speaker at the conference pointed out, even in the Nordic countries, where the equality agenda has been stronger than in many other European countries, there is still a startling lack of progress.

Because of the lack of investment, there hasn't been much progress in improving vertical turbines as there has with horizontal windmills.

Over the past few years, Congress has grown increasingly unhappy about the spiralling costs of the space station programme and its lack of progress, and there have been several attempts to kill it off.

I'm 36 and I want to have babies, but with this lack of progress, I don't think I'll get there.

All these outside factors certainly contribute to progress, or lack there of, in the gym.

While it is important to vary exercises, there is a fine balance between adapting and overcoming and never progressing due to lack of adaptation.

But, there are also very artificial ways to indicate and / or slow progress that distract you from the lack of interesting things to do, as well

There's consequently a lack of momentum here that grows more and more pronounced as time slowly progresses, while the movie's anti-climactic final stretch ensures that Snowden ends on as underwhelming and forgettable a note as one could envision - which ultimately confirms the movie's place as a tremendously disappointing missed opportunity and yet another subpar effort from a once - vital filmmaker.

As the film progresses Melanie reunites with her Uncle Jeb (Hurt), though as she is visibly an alien there is an obvious lack of trust.

While still as fun as the first, there's a lack of actual overall progress, just a reshuffling of used ideas.

However, they did note a principle concern for parents was that «there is a lack of objective standards [in student reports] that parents can use to determine their children's attainment and rate of progress», suggesting a desire for more than grades, scores and marks to be able to monitor their child's growth in learning over time.

There are large numbers of schools, teachers, and disadvantaged students who will be affected by this» lack of progress, which will continue a trend in American education for the last 16 years, as the U.S. slips steadily further behind the world's leaders in education.

The performance of AET's secondary schools is described as «mediocre» and there has been a lack of progress since Ofsted highlighted weaknesses in the chain's schools two years ago.

According to the survey, there are two common factors that lead to misidentification of students with learning disabilities: a lack of understanding among educators as to why an English learning student is not making adequate progress, and poorly designed and implemented referral processes.

Despite its excellent piece on uncounted suspensions (see above), The Washington Post's story on principal turnover at a quarter of DCPS schools seems like it might overstate the turnover problem, lack context, and bury the progress being made there.

There's a lot of them, and some were things I looked up as discussions progressed, so if it feels like the context is lacking, that's why.

As regards actual oil & gas reserves, the cupboard's somewhat bare... Despite all the excitement about Tanzania, there's been a near - total lack of actual progress by the company — it's far too early to ascribe any kind of substantial value to what are only classified as contingent & prospective resources to date.

Overall the story is quite compelling and as the mobile game progresses you learn a lot more about the characters and the world, however, there is rather a lack of information on the antagonist as not even his order of the sworn six of Pardia is mentioned in the game.

- when the team learned that Switch would support Unity, they began the process of bringing the game over - it was planned early on to get the game onto Switch within a month of it launching - by Fall 2016, Unity's optimization progressed, and error messages that previously appeared with I Am Setsuna stopped - by the end of fall last year, the team was finished with pre-submission to Nintendo - I Am Setuna was the first title to enter this process - a meeting with Unity was suddenly held, and it was decided that I Am Setsuna would end up becoming a launch title - Nintendo asked for the developers to finish the master version that year if possible - the team was able to port quickly due to Unity, as well as the lack of online / vs features & modest hardware requirements - having a good grasp on specs also made work come together quickly - setting various aspects such as the app's icon, languages, etc. was said to be very simple - there was also good compatibility for titles that have / planned to have multi-platform support on home and portable consoles

- the eight protagonists won't have similar stories to each other because the team wants players to enjoy different experiences - the other six protagonists will have jobs different from Orberic (Swordsman) and Primrose (Dancer)- Orberic and Primrose were chosen for the demo because their starting points are closer to other party members - each protagonist will have different starting points, so there may be a gap in the progress difficulty - the team is trying to even things out, but they don't want every character to have the same difficulty, as that would be boring - the demo has surpassed 1 million downloads worldwide - a demo was released because they thought simply publishing screenshots and trailers wouldn't convey this game's fun factor - more than 80 % of the overseas player base found the game interesting - there was one player who won against a high - leveled NPC in a Duel, and another who defeated all bar customers - the team had expected the former, they didn't expect the latter - the music was received very well, which comes from composer Yasunori Nishiki - overseas players complained of hard - to - read text, because the UI was based on the Japanese version, which will be adjusted - the biggest complaints were about slow map movement, and the lack of fast - travel - both of these features have been implemented, with faster movement and fast - travel between cities - players also found the screen too dark, so devs are adding waypoints for paths and also bigger roads - there will be an Event Skip feature, as well as the ability to freely watch events that have been already seen.

While there's a lack of hints or hand - holding outside of the first level which acts as a tutorial, I found gameplay flows and works well for the most part, with a natural, steady increase in difficulty as you progress further into the game — which makes it feel like a true 8 - bit survival sim.

There's a distinct lack of progress to be found, too.

Boss fights such as those in Everquest or World of Warcraft are highly skill - based fights, but the stat inflation that the gear provides means that those fights gets easier as time progresses, allowing players who lack the skill to taste that endgame content, while making it easy, sometimes trivial, for those who got there first.

While still as fun as the first, there's a lack of actual overall progress, just a reshuffling of used ideas.

Although, there is a part of the experience that frustrated me quite a bit, and it wasn't the difficulty level but the lack of a map as some levels include caves and scenarios that might have a common theme and this makes it somewhat easy to get lost at times, this is of course especially annoying if you are heading back to level up and you are scared to get killed and loose the progress only to having to backtrack for too long simply because you are unsure where the sanctuary is.

But upon hearing the news that progress has, once again, stalled, seeing Guy apologize and saying «there is nobody more disappointed with this truth than us,» and seeing the lack of any updates in over a year, I can't help but feel my confidence evaporate.

Nintendo just had their investors meeting, and while some good news was dropped on the progress of mobile development and the Nintendo NX, there was a distinct lack of mention of a certain piece of...

Nintendo just had their investors meeting, and while some good news was dropped on the progress of mobile development and the Nintendo NX, there was a distinct lack of mention of a certain piece of hardware that Nintendo has been hard at work on: their Quality of Life sensor.

While it is satisfying to unlock the new and familiar subclasses as you progress through the game, there is a something deeply disappointing about the complete lack of any new true classes at all.

Also, it seems there is much hand - wringing about the current lack of «progress» or avant - garde in painting lately.

Guest post by Rud Istvan Excerpted from book in progress Arts of Truth Based on the forthcoming Gaia, Musings on Sustainability © 2012 Rud Istvan There is a recent example of artful lack of disclosure in the climate change debate.

While overall spending on climate - related activities is higher than on fossil fuels, there is still a lack of progress in phasing out fossil fuel investments and increasing climate finance.

There was a lack of progress on increasing the ambition of the Commission's proposal and the Council did not agree on its position.

For the pessimists Durban was another in a long string of disappointing international action on climate change: a new agreement won't be signed until 2015 and not implemented until 2020; there will be no obligatory cuts by most nations for another 9 years, only pledges; the Green Fund lacks a revenue source, meaning it's an idea without funding; and the REDD program meant to save forests saw little progress.

While there have been advances, progress is hampered by population growth, widespread poverty, insufficient investments to address the problem and the biggest culprit: a lack of political will.»

Overall, there were several improvements noted in this year's results, but there was also a lack of progress in several other departments.

Amidst the constraints which include, human and administrative challenges, damaged, unmaintained or serviced turbines, non-availability of gas, damaged pipelines, vandalism and lack of maintenance there has been a focus on making incremental progress so as to steadily increase the generation, transmission and distribution capacity of the country.

There's plenty on this blog, and on our TV and radio reporting, about the political progress of Brexit, or lack thereof - the moments where it's felt like the wheels were coming off, then wheels up, as the PM flew to Brussels in the dead of night when it was suddenly all back on.