Sentences with phrase «when decades of effort»

Why would we think we can build a «high - quality» program for all the nation's 4 - year - olds when decades of effort have failed to produce universal high - quality in any other grades?

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When Pope Francis arrives in America next month, he will undoubtedly find a very different country than did Paul VI, John Paul II, or Benedict XVI.In the past decade, the culture of death has gained momentum (even as pro-life marches and valiant efforts to chip away at it continue), the sexual....

But when we make an effort to come together, we have to pick our way through mine - fields of decades - old feuds and fears.

I never intended to challenge the church when my wife and I pursued in vitro fertilization in an effort to expand our family after a decade of unsuccessful infertility treatments.

Marley Coffee began over a decade ago when Rohan Marley, son of Bob Marley, purchased land in the Blue Mountains of Jamaica in an effort to help the locals with food supply.

When researchers operating the Large Hadron Collider, or LHC, outside Geneva discovered the Higgs boson, it ended a decades - long effort to fill the final gap in physicists» catalog of matter's particles and forces.

Two decades ago, efforts to achieve the same goal fizzled out embarrassingly when the scale and complexity of the task became clear.

«We're honoring the city of Moab and the State of Utah because they were so supportive of our excavation efforts over the decades it's taken us to pull the animal out of the ground,» Britt said, referencing the digs that began when he was a BYU geology student in the late»70s.

So they were pleased when President Barack Obama last night pledged a new, long - term effort aimed at repairing what he called «decades of environmental damage» to the region.

Over the past two decades, research scientist Rachel Whitmer at the Kaiser Permanente Division of Research in Oakland, California, has tracked over 6,000 members of Kaiser starting when they were age 40 to 45 in an effort to learn if there is a connection between central obesity and dementia.

The first, tiny effort to deal with the problem took place decades ago, when pilots distributed buckets of ice over the fog.

OTHER ADVERSE EFFECTS OF GOVERNMENT DIETARY GUIDELINES ON HEALTH Decades of effort by government officials to reduce salt intake by the U.S. population have met with limited success due to the natural salt cravings that kick in when salt intake is not adequatOF GOVERNMENT DIETARY GUIDELINES ON HEALTH Decades of effort by government officials to reduce salt intake by the U.S. population have met with limited success due to the natural salt cravings that kick in when salt intake is not adequatof effort by government officials to reduce salt intake by the U.S. population have met with limited success due to the natural salt cravings that kick in when salt intake is not adequate.

I once read somewhere that the majority of us believe we looked our very best when we were in our twenties... and we tend to hang on to that hairstyle and hair colour, that way of applying our makeup, and that favourite style of jeans for years — even decades — afterwards in an effort to keep those «good feels» going.

Montgomery County has used a «50 - percent rule» — prohibiting the use of the lowest failing grades when students make good - faith efforts — for nearly a decade.

Especially when you consider that Alabama Republicans in control of state government have worked for the past decade to disenfranchise minority voters through efforts such as closing motor vehicle branches in Black communities, a key way of frustrating voter registration.

As Geoffrey Canada of the Harlem Children's Zone told education philanthropist Katherine Bradley when she began her school reform efforts a decade ago, it is critical to overhaul the schools at the center of the lives of children and their communities.

Unlike other big cities, Cincinnati has the advantage of having designed or redesigned its schools with community schools in mind, beginning more than a decade ago, when it embarked on a $ 1 billion effort to renovate its schools.

A caveat here in the history of such an initiative more than two decades ago: The California New Teacher Project, which funded reduced class loads and extensive mentoring for rookie teachers, resulted in improved performance of both students and teachers, but that success did not continue when the efforts did not take hold in a systemic way.

But it will likely take decades of consistent effort for the automaker to rival the likes of Toyota and Honda when it comes to small and mid-size cars.

Among the periods she intends to highlight are the years 1924 to 1943, when the notion of a distinct American folk art came into public consciousness through the efforts of the Whitney Studio Club and MoMA director Alfred Barr; the long decade from the late 1960s through the early 1980s that saw both the publication of Roger Cardinal's 1972 book Outsider Art and Jane Livingston and James Beardsley's groundbreaking 1982 show «Black Folk Art in America, 1930 — 1980» at the Corcoran Gallery; and the near present, with its ongoing conversation about how to contextualize vernacular art.

That's because when you really look at it, you will see that even a massive global effort to build thousands of new nuclear power plants would have only a modest impact on GHG emissions and even that impact won't occur for decades.

On the second point, about predicting an open Arctic sea, a new study concludes that the chaotic nature of climate puts big fundamental limits — an irreducible two - decade - wide window — on efforts to forecast when the Arctic Ocean could be essentially free of ice in late summer.

When I interviewed Solis a few years ago for the Sierra Club's magazine, Sierra, she talked about the air pollution and toxic - waste problems that have plagued her neighborhood for decades; the myth that minorities don't care about the environment; the efforts of her immigrant father — a union shop steward in Mexico — to get safety equipment for his coworkers; and her own push to create parkland in her largely Hispanic and Asian working - class Southern California district.