Sentences with phrase «years significant progress»

Over the last 20 years significant progress has been made in what we know about the impact of trauma, adversity and toxic stress on early childhood development.

In the past few years significant progress has been achieved, but difficulties posed by the problem of flux adjustment, while reduced, remain problematic and continued investigations are needed to reach the objective of avoiding dependence on flux adjustment.

Not exact matches

For the last 15 years, Partners for Progress, a group of private and public - sector leaders in St. Charles County, Missouri, have invested a significant amount of time and money to create a culture of STEM education in the area's school districts.

«VIVITROL ® and ARISTADA ® continue to demonstrate solid growth year - over-year and we have made significant progress in making these important medicines available to patients.

«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.»

«This enables us to transform Alcoa faster and to better control our destiny in a world of continuing economic uncertainty... 2014 was another solid year of Alcoa business performance and transformation progress that delivered significant returns to our shareholders.»

«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.

While the major stock exchanges, securities regulators and police have made significant progress in the past dozen years purging the old - style boiler rooms and pump - and - dump schemes from the public markets, the marketing of suspect securities continues to thrive in the private domain.

Over the past five years, the more worrisome government - issued debt in Europe has made significant progress in managing the normal mechanism of higher - perceived risk equaling higher yields.

The Philadelphia Regional Port Authority (PRPA) has said «significant progress» is being made in its plan to develop its Southport Marine Terminal Complex, the first major expansion of the Port of Philadelphia in over 50 years.

HSBC made significant progress in this respect being able to boost the CET from below 12 % to 13.9 % (compared to the previous year).

«We also made significant progress toward improving our margin on the sale of vacation ownership products, or what we call development margin, and are well on our way toward our targeted development margin of over 12 percent for the year.

Since Starbucks first began buying cage - free eggs in 2008, we have made significant progress, increasing our purchases year over year.

Accordingly, a year - over-year increase in new claims of about 20 % (which would currently equate to a level of about 340,000 weekly new claims) would create a significant concern of a new recession in progress, particularly if coupled with other evidence such as equity market weakness and slowing growth in real personal income.

Baltimore has made incremental progress reforming its police department under its year - old consent decree with the U.S. Department of Justice, but is still far from where it needs to be and faces significant technological hurdles in getting there, city...

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.

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.

All the time these things were going on, the gap between the average white income and the average black income in this nation continued to widen, while the white population says such things as, «We have made significant progress in race relations in the last ten years.»

The religious opposition to the Vietnam War was certainly more effective than the opposition of those who spelled America with a «k.» And if we have made some significant progress with respect to the place of racial minorities in our society in the last twenty years, it is due mostly to religious leadership.

«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.

Smurfit Kappa's sustainability report, which measures year - on - year progress with a focus on five priority areas (Forest, Climate Change, Water, Waste and People), shows that over the past ten years the packaging giant has also achieved a significant reduction in the amount of waste sent to landfill and has invested $ 60 million in water treatment plants.

Your vote at this year's Annual Meeting of Shareholders on June 22, 2016 is critically important to the future of RiceBran Technologies («RiceBran» or the «Company») and to continuing the significant progress your Board of Directors (the «Board») has made transitioning your Company from a predominantly animal nutrition company to a fast growing provider of functional food ingredients, human food ingredients and packaged functional foods.

Another two years went by until the «Saga Jolokia» made significant progress.

Achieved and made significant progress in natural resource reduction targets including meeting its normalized greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions reduction goal and nearly meeting its energy use reduction target four years ahead of its 2020 deadline.

«Smithfield continues to lead the industry in sustainability, and I am proud that we have made such significant progress toward our sustainability goals and targets, even achieving some goals years ahead of schedule,» said Ken Sullivan, president and chief executive officer for Smithfield Foods.

While the signings this year might not be the «mega» signings some of us were hoping for, there is the feeling that if everyone in the team performs to their abilities, we could make significant progress this year — maybe a trophy or even two.

The 22 - year - old came through the ranks with the Catalan giants before his move to north London in 2011, but he has gone on to make significant progress under Arsene Wenger with regular playing time.

At present, we have a very average goalkeeper in Almunia, with no - one to seriously challenge his position (Fabianski's too young, and I'm not sure he'll ever be good enough judging by his lack of any significant progress over the last year).

His fee was enormous for a 20 - year - old defender with zero Premier League experience, but Sánchez's rapid progress to date explains why Spurs were prepared to part with such a significant sum of money to land him.

Arsenal have made significant progress and hopefully a little better health next year, and I think Arsenal can win the PL.

Although your child won't make significant progress in self - care until the toddler years, you'll see the first stirrings fairly early on.

Since the 2012 - 13 school year (SY), districts nationwide have raised the nutritional quality of their offerings across these venues to better support children's health, readiness to learn, and lifelong eating habits.1 Multiple studies show significant progress toward these goals: Kids are selecting more nutritious meals and eating more fruits and vegetables.2 (See Figure 1.)

In the meantime, the significant expansion of humanitarian aid in recent years is another sign of very practical progress in civilian protection.

The card reader is to complement and confirm the integrity of the voter register and that is why the unusual moonlight figures of the past years are disappearing and, if those against the use of the card reader succeed through the court, that would be a major setback and total reversal of the reformative mileage we have covered as a country on election matters, a significant progress that has resulted in other African countries calling on Nigeria's INEC for assistance.

«Despite significant progress over the last few years, the volume of business won by ethnic minority owned businesses in the UK remains small,» said Sara Todd, chair of Minority Supplier Development UK (MSDUK) and executive director at Merck Sharp & Dohme (MSD).

So it is also hard to credit that, far from making significant progress with their much heralded «fightback», the Lib - Dems are actually on course to make a net loss of seats in Wales this year.

And it feared that even the new target announced last year, that by 2020 95 per cent of the working age population will be able to get by, will not have meant significant progress.

«Over the past three years, significant progress has been made to untangle and remove these mandates to provide relief to local governments, school districts, businesses, and taxpayers.»

While our colleagues in Scotland have gone from one poor election result to the next, faced with a similar situation in 1997 the Welsh Conservatives have made significant progress, bouncing back to increase our share of the vote at each general election since and increasing our representation, taking 8 seats this year - two more than than in John Major's surprise election victory in 1992.

A report by the NFER also found «no significant difference in attainment progress between Key Stage 2 and Key Stage 4 outcomes after two years between converter academies and similar non-academy schools.»

Nevertheless, in my view, it is impossible to avoid the conclusion that the conjunction of resource, population and policy pressures, particularly in the second half of 2013 - 14 and particularly in adult male prisons, was a very significant factor for the rapid deterioration in safety and other outcomes we found as the year progressed.»

Syracuse Schools Superintendent Jaime Alicea said the district has made significant progress in the last four years, while they have been complying with an agreement known as the Assurance of Discontinuance with the state attorney general's office.

«This administration has also ushered in significant progress in agriculture, where output has risen in local production and Nigeria is now importing 80 to 90 per cent less rice than in previous years.»

Q: ITER has made significant progress in recent years but has also drawn heavy criticism.

When you hear that scientists have cracked the genome of a bacteria or virus, you assume that in the years to come there will be significant progress preventing or treating a disease.

And although it is unclear how deep or prolonged the current crisis will be, one thing remains — without government support we could be without significant progress in innovation in the renewable energy sector by the end of the year.

«Although the 3D scanning technology has made significant progress in recent years, it is still a challenge to capture the geometry and shape of a real object digitally and automatically,» explains Mario Fritz, who leads the group «Scalable Learning and Perception» at the Max Planck Institute for Informatics.

At the same time, however, speakers noted significant progress in the past few years.

When the individuals were re-assessed a year later, about a quarter had progressed to Alzheimer's disease and three of the proteins measured in their blood showed significant differences from the blood of participants that did not go on to develop the disease.

As for Cody, seven years after the onset of LKS, doctors haven't noticed any significant progress, and as of now, his family is planning to put him in adult handicapped housing when he finishes school at age 21.