Sentences with phrase «very substantial progress»

«The American people should feel the steps we have taken to normalize monetary policy... are well justified given the very substantial progress we've seen in the economy.»

Looking ninety days out, you have a good idea of what you can actually get done in that time frame, so your capacity estimations are about right and yet you can make some very substantial progress towards a big goal.

Primary schools had made very substantial progress in raising standards over the past 12 years, after years of just coasting along - but it was getting tougher to get the final 20 % to the expected level.

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Congress has made substantial progress on deficit reduction, but they have done it in the worst possible way, which is to say, it's been very chaotic and damaging to confidence.

While the gains among these initial 3rd graders are not as dramatic as the 4th grade gains which had captured national attention, Winters found «the gains among initial 3rd graders were very substantial,» about 0.36 standard deviations between 1998 and 2009, or roughly a full additional year of academic progress.

Pablo was very fearful of humans when he first arrived but has made substantial progress in his socialization.

In its latest assessment of the progress of climate change, the body said: «If warming is not kept below two degrees centigrade, which will require the strongest mitigation efforts, and currently looks very unlikely to be achieved, the substantial global impacts will occur, such as species extinctions, and millions of people at risk from drought, hunger, flooding.»