Sentences with phrase «widespread failure»

The climate models analyzed in the paper «Causes of model dry and warm bias over central U.S. and impact on climate projections,» included a precipitation deficit that is associated with widespread failure of the models in capturing actual strong rainfall events in summer over the region.
Over the past year, residents in multiple neighborhoods across northern Manhattan have suffered under a variety of postal problems, including widespread failure to deliver packages, long lines at post offices, low staffing levels, and sharply limited, inconvenient operating hours.
Multinational meeting today to address widespread failure to meet international health regulations
But push the education system to address its own widespread failures and suddenly it becomes limper than a lunchroom Tater Tot.
NCLB as we know it made states actually dosomething meaningful when the tests revealed widespread failure.
General secretary Russell Hobby said: «If a school could conceal evidence of widespread failure in just two days then the whole concept of inspection is flawed and Ofsted's protestations that it examines progress and behaviour over the long - term ring hollow.»
Obviously, local failures can occur without catastrophe — it's a question of how often and how widespread the failures are, and whether they occur simultaneously in both the Greenland Sea and in the Labrador Sea.
Where a company has effectively managed the above risks, it often takes a company by surprise when its product ultimately experiences widespread failures: «We thought we did everything right!»
Court of Arbitration for Sport upholds athletics body's decision to ban Russian athletes from Rio Olympics after widespread failures of doping tests
Did not Gilbert Murray, for example, speak of the «widespread failure of nerve» that occurred following the demise of the autonomous Greek city - states in the midst of the conquests of Philip and then Alexander the Great?
Wilson thinks that the answer to these and similar questions is no, primarily because of scientific illiteracy, but also because of a widespread failure to live up to the intellectual, religious and moral implications of science.
But with the widespread failure of the field to come to any agreement about the Bible's own categories of discourse, its special modes of literary expression and intentionality, and especially those social and religious factors that handed the Old Testament over to us, we have simply been thrown back on ourselves and the deeply felt convictions with which we began the process of interpretation.
Photograph: Anadolu Agency / Getty Images Odinga, a polarising figure who is adored by his supporters, also ran and lost in 2013, and took his complaints about the widespread failure of electronic voting equipment to court.
Her sharp eye and cautious nature — alongside loyal and ferocious support from the special advisers who have subsequently followed her to Downing Street — have been cited as key reasons why her six years as home secretary were untainted by scandal or widespread failure.
Addressing the issue of the Department of Education's widespread failure to meet state art requirements, Education Committee Chair Robert Jackson asked, «Who is responsible for pushing, shoving, mandating or ensuring compliance?»
The authors warned that the widespread failure to publish such failed trials hinders medical progress, wastes resources, and places patients in harm's way.
So, many educators are clamoring to forget about self - esteem and return to the good old days of high standards, with the risk of widespread failure.
The «Y2K» problem is caused by the widespread failure of computer programmers over many years to write software that uses four digits to indicate the year in date fields.
The only reason that Prop 227 failed to realize its full potential was the widespread failure to follow it.
For example, when faced with the widespread failure of economically disadvantaged students to effectively engage with ambitious curricula, school districts have, on more than one occasion, dumbed - down those curricula, scripted them, and made them one - size - fits - all.
You may want to take this widespread failure of investment research as an indictment of the financial industry, or of the investment branch of academia.
Simply put, the widespread failure to spay or neuter dogs results in homelessness, misery, cruelty, and death.
Yet it is clear that there has been widespread failure of those engaged in climate change policy controversies to understand the enormous practical significance for policy formation of the acknowledgement that climate change is a moral issue.
But his criticism stands out against the widespread failure of parliament, journalists and academics to subject this act to any scrutiny.
There is real concern that this will now be the situation in even more cases than before, as a result of the widespread failures to deal properly with evidential and undisclosed material.
I had thought that the review of the E-Signature Directive was prompted by a widespread failure to follow it, in that its «advanced electronic signature» was not being much used, because it's too complicated.
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