Sentences with phrase «years of progress by»

However, by reinstating the global gag rule President Trump threatens to undercut years of progress by disqualifying many of the most experienced family planning providers from funding.

The Surfrider Foundation is alarmed to see the Trump Administration reverse years of progress by the federal government to address the critical threat of climate change.

Massive ships waiting outside the orbit of Neptune carrying immense cargoes of untold wealth from millions of years of progress by unfettered minds so unlike ours.

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McDonald's (MCD), which is suffering through one of its worst years in more than a decade, hinted at its investor meeting last week that it's looking to make progress in this department by simplifying ingredients.

Not only would there be a huge human factor to consider in sending them back to countries with which most aren't familiar, but the cost to our economy could be staggering: According to a Center for American Progress study earlier this year, the estimated loss of DACA workers would reduce U.S. GDP by $ 433 billion over the next 10 years, with California, Texas and Illinois being hit hardest.

«Since we announced our plan to separate in October, we've made significant progress and remain on track to complete the separation by the end of the fiscal year 2015.»

The huge growth in wealth generated by China's explosive progress also presents a risk that the country will go the way of Japan, which has suffered from a 40 - year recession in which the economy has failed to grow even 1 % over the past 20 years, Ramasamy tells boot camp participants.

«At the same time, we see significant momentum for alternative energy vehicles, an inferior competitive landscape and continued progress on Model 3 production driving more than 70 % top - line growth this year, easily one of the fastest ever by a multibillion - dollar company.

MACMIN NL is progressing towards producing silver from its Texas Silver project by the last quarter of this year.

As for its year - over-year progress, Pinterest reported that it increased its percentage of female employees by 2 percentage points (40 % to 42 %).

Europe's technology sector has made «a lot of progress» in the last five years, says Clif Marriott of the Technology, Media and Telecom group in Goldman Sachs» Investment Banking Division, evidenced by the increasing number of unicorns — private companies valued at over one billion dollars — in the European tech scene, the homecoming of the continent's top talent and the high number of successful IPOs of European companies.

Aug 7 (Reuters)-- Shares of OnDeck Capital Inc rose as much as 17 percent on Monday after the online lender said it had made progress on a plan to cut costs and improve the credit profile of its borrowers, and expects to reach double - digit loan growth again by next year.

Years of debate went by and no progress was made towards fixing Bitcoin.

2015 should be a great year and some serious progress should be made by the end of the upcoming year.

Any blow to the British car industry, which was dogged by wild - cat strikes and poor productivity in the 1970s and 1980s, could undo years of recent progress with output currently expected to reach a record high of 2 million by 2020.

«These strong year - over-year results were fueled by an acceleration in our Americas» business led by the US and Canada, our 25th consecutive quarter of double - digit growth in Germany, continued meaningful progress in Asia - Pacific and changes in foreign currency exchange rates.

Four years ago, as a result of a $ 200 million discrimination settlement, Coca - Cola was required by the court to set up an outside task force to monitor the progress of its diversity program.

And while the new, combined company will likely still be run by current popular T - Mobile CEO John Legere, the very act of eliminating one of only four major players in the wireless market will indisputably reduce the incentive to more seriously compete on price, and could help reverse the progress the sector has seen in recent years.

Key findings for the North American (U.S. and Canada) workforce surveyed in the study include: • 51 % of employees are not happy at work • 45 % of employees trust their company's leadership • 61 % of employees don't know their company's mission • 57 % of employees are not motivated by their company's mission • 60 % of employees don't know their company's vision • 57 % of employees don't feel recognized for their progress at work • 61 % of employees don't know their organization's cultural values • 50 % of employees don't expect to be with their organization a year from now

Net losses were down by about 60 % from year - ago levels, and even though production was down slightly from the third quarter of 2016, Whiting managed to make considerable progress even with sales of assets that had contributed substantially to production in last year's results.

A rising rate on the 10 - year partly reflects the desire to make progress on monetary policy normalization, which has been impeded by a series of unrelated surprises over the course of the year.

Similarly, preparations for new transit lines in Surrey and in Vancouver have progressed enough that they could be under construction by the end of the year.

Canadian online retail, in short, looks a lot like Canadian retail did 20 years ago: unimpressive, outdated and at threat of being thrashed by American retailers — many of which are already making steady progress in better serving this market.Despite the country's reputation as one of the world's most wired and digitally social people, Canadians only spent $ 18 - billion online in 2010, or 3.4 per cent of total retail sales, according to Boston Consulting Group — well behind other developed countries such as the U.S. at 5 per cent and the United Kingdom at 13.5 per cent.

GFI's innovation department has two primary areas of focus — firstly, encouraging scientists and entrepreneurs to join the plant - based and cultured meat industries, and secondly, supporting the ongoing success of existing companies in the industry.26 They have assembled a list of potential companies based on what they believe are promising ideas that have not been capitalized on, 27 and they have developed a list of more than 220 entrepreneurs and scientists, many of whom take part in monthly video calls led by GFI.28 In the last year, they have had some success in assisting in the founding of a plant - based meat company in India, Good Dot, and a plant - based fish company in the U.S., SeaCo.29 The companies have both raised millions in venture capital and are making progress towards competition with animal products.30 Although venture capitalist funding is a good indication that the companies themselves will be successful, and while the companies might not exist without GFI, it is unclear what portion of the responsibility for the companies» outcomes should be attributed to GFI.

If there's no significant progress during the third round of negotiations, starting Saturday in Ottawa, they say there's no chance a deal can be struck by year's end.

BETHESDA, Md., June 28, 2011 / PRNewswire / — Marriott International, Inc. (NYSE: MAR) marked progress today toward the planned spin - off by year - end of its vacation club business into a separate publicly traded company, announcing that its subsidiary, Marriott Vacations Worldwide Corporation, the new corporate name for the vacation club business upon spin - off, has filed an initial Form 10 Registration Statement («Form 10») with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

Examples of these risks, uncertainties and other factors include, but are not limited to the impact of: adverse general economic and related factors, such as fluctuating or increasing levels of unemployment, underemployment and the volatility of fuel prices, declines in the securities and real estate markets, and perceptions of these conditions that decrease the level of disposable income of consumers or consumer confidence; adverse events impacting the security of travel, such as terrorist acts, armed conflict and threats thereof, acts of piracy, and other international events; the risks and increased costs associated with operating internationally; our expansion into and investments in new markets; breaches in data security or other disturbances to our information technology and other networks; the spread of epidemics and viral outbreaks; adverse incidents involving cruise ships; changes in fuel prices and / or other cruise operating costs; any impairment of our tradenames or goodwill; our hedging strategies; our inability to obtain adequate insurance coverage; our substantial indebtedness, including the ability to raise additional capital to fund our operations, and to generate the necessary amount of cash to service our existing debt; restrictions in the agreements governing our indebtedness that limit our flexibility in operating our business; the significant portion of our assets pledged as collateral under our existing debt agreements and the ability of our creditors to accelerate the repayment of our indebtedness; volatility and disruptions in the global credit and financial markets, which may adversely affect our ability to borrow and could increase our counterparty credit risks, including those under our credit facilities, derivatives, contingent obligations, insurance contracts and new ship progress payment guarantees; fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates; overcapacity in key markets or globally; our inability to recruit or retain qualified personnel or the loss of key personnel; future changes relating to how external distribution channels sell and market our cruises; our reliance on third parties to provide hotel management services to certain ships and certain other services; delays in our shipbuilding program and ship repairs, maintenance and refurbishments; future increases in the price of, or major changes or reduction in, commercial airline services; seasonal variations in passenger fare rates and occupancy levels at different times of the year; our ability to keep pace with developments in technology; amendments to our collective bargaining agreements for crew members and other employee relation issues; the continued availability of attractive port destinations; pending or threatened litigation, investigations and enforcement actions; changes involving the tax and environmental regulatory regimes in which we operate; and other factors set forth under «Risk Factors» in our most recently filed Annual Report on Form 10 - K and subsequent filings by the Company with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

The general working theory for Christian missionaries was first formalized in St. Augustine's doctrine of «cognite intrare», or «compel them to enter», but was perhaps best summed up by J. C. Warner some 1500 years later: ``... the sword must first — not exterminate them, but — break them up as tribes, and destroy their political existence; after which, when thus set free from the shackles by which they are bound, civilisation and Christianity will no doubt make rapid progress among them.»

, the irreducible complexity problem explained so clearly by md2205 (research the parts of the flagellum bacterium — amazing), probability of something happening — for the many years evolution has been studied and not a single example of a transitional fossil (please research before replying — there have been MANY confirmed fakes) or an evolutionary event in progress.

Built around 9600 B.C., the site predates Stonehenge by about 6600 years and places the origins of human religious experience much farther back in the historical progress of our civilization than scholars previously believed possible.

His basic weakness is that he has ignored the intervening fifty years, whereas real progress in scholarship, precisely when progress means a shift in direction, comes by means of profound understanding of the valid reasons behind the current position, including the valid reasons it had for rejecting an older view to which we must now in some legitimate sense return.

A century later, we are living in the closing years of a pontificate that has, above all, taught Catholics not to be afraid» afraid of those who hate the Church so that we do not honestly contemplate the failings of our own past; afraid of the progress of science so that we needed to be reminded by the Pope «that faith and reason are like two wings on which the human spirit rises to the contemplation of truth.»

The fact of progress was symbolized for Whitehead in the year he wrote, 1931, by the achievement of a peaceful settlement between Gandhi and the Viceroy of India.11

thousands of whites r — a — p — e — d, robbed, and murdered in the last 10 years by blacks and hispanics (mainly blacks) and it's «racial progress.»

Meeting in Atlanta, the bishops heard from Al Notzon III, the chairman of the National Review Board, on the progress made 10 years after they tasked the lay group with «advising the bishops on the handling of sexual abuse of minors by clergy.»

Earlier this year there were protests over the future of a Confederate statue in Charlottesville as well as violent rallies by white supremacists and neo-Nazis, prompting the discussion in Alexandria to progress.

But although, since the Age of the Reindeer (that is to say, within a period of twenty or thirty thousand years) no progress is perceptible in either the physical or the mental faculties of Individual Man, the fact of organo - psychic development seems to be clearly manifest in Collective Man: and this, whatever we may think of it, represents as true an advance as the acquisition of an added convolution by the brain.

Music and grammar were bracketed together as the two disciplines in which Luther wished his son to progress further, when sending sixteen - year - old Hans up the river to Torgau (26 August 1542) to the flourishing school there run by a graduate of Wittenberg, one Marcus Crodel.

Pope Benedict XVI has been in office for less than a year, and already there are rumblings of dissatisfaction (in some quarters of disquiet, in others of impatience), aroused by the — so far — slow progress of what everyone seems from the beginning to have assumed will be one of the new pope's priorities: the reform of the Roman Curia.

These are years of growth in which the individual progresses from a personally centered idea of the self into a notion of selfhood that is constituted by a vaster and profounder world than he or she knew as a child.

If the first few days of 2015 are any indication of how the year will progress the next 12 months are so far looking glittery and warm — filled with equal quantities of vegetables and ice cream, underscored by full on work and much needed play, but a bit hangry and punctuated by laughable (as in I'd laugh if I weren't so hangry) service.

For President Philip A. Busch, his company's ranking last year as one of the top - 30 Anheuser - Busch distributors out of 550 nationwide was a sure sign that Southern Eagle Distributing is progressing into the very motto their team lives by: «to be the greatest beverage company in the eyes of all of our retailers and customers, but until then, we all have more work to do.»

For a chance to win, guests simply need to download the IHOP Mobile App, which launched earlier this year, and track their progress in trying the newest line - up of globally - inspired pancakes by uploading a photo.

«Since making that pledge [eliminating gestation crates by the year 2020], we have continued to survey our suppliers and communicate our desire that they be gestation - crate free by the end of this decade... As a next step, in 2014, we will ask our suppliers for annual progress reports on their efforts to comply with our plan so that we may evaluate where each supplier is with regard to reaching our goal.»

«While prices may trend upwards for the balance of the year, this progress will probably be unsteady and will likely be hampered by the substantial stocks of SMP.

It is being implemented from June 2014 on a voluntary basis by the food industry over the next five years, with a review of progress after two years.

«We have, for some years, held firm to our commitment to sourcing only certified palm oil by 2015, and these changes represent significant progress toward that goal,» said Annette Hansen, director of sustainability for DuPont Nutrition & Health.

report every five years to the Murray - Darling Basin Authority on the achievement of environmental outcomes at a Basin scale, by reference to the targets to measure progress towards the environmental objectives in Schedule 7 (Basin Plan Schedule 12, item 7).

If approved by national regulators, Golden Rice may still be a few years away from being grown in farmer's fields or sold at the corner store, but we're excited to share these milestones of progress.

What bugs me is that although he's had a whole year to teach himself english, Wenger is still in the phase of letting him off by saying «he's improving quite well», when the previous 12 months imply that his progress is slow af.