Sentence examples for achieving any significant from inspiring English sources

Taming the budget deficit is the only significant issue anyone in Washington seems willing to raise yet Congress seems incapable of achieving any significant progress on this.

The chief executive of the Climate Institute, John Connor, said: "The government's climate ambition and policies are already being questioned, with a clear indication that our major trading partners do not think that we have a credible policy or pathway for achieving any significant pollution target, or that we're playing our fair share in the global game.

On Thursday he took to the pages of the Wall Street Journal to argue that Mr Obama has offered a financial lifeline to the island without achieving any significant concessions in return.

The move incurred the wrath of the unions, but has so far failed to achieve any significant rise in permanent employment, especially for the young.

Among the many environmental indictments of the Bush administration is that it has failed in two terms to achieve any significant reduction in smog, acid rain, mercury and greenhouse gas emissions from coal-fired power plants.

The government's flagship social policy, announced after the 2011 riots and intended to correct the anti-social behaviour of "troubled families", has failed to achieve any significant impact, an official evaluation has found.

"Even if he receives the intensive medical and therapeutic treatment his condition requires, Mr Aamer will take many years, if not a lifetime, to achieve any significant recovery," they said.

The protocol problems may have had more resonance than the nature of the small slights would suggest because Mr. Hu's visit did not achieve any significant breakthroughs and the Chinese always emphasize careful staging of major political events.

In what is likely to be an impassioned speech, Duncan Smith will also argue that uncontrolled migration is hitting the poorest in British society by piling pressure onto schools and hospitals, and claim Cameron has failed to achieve any significant reform with his EU renegotiation.

Still, no one has achieved any significant scale.

We have not yet achieved any significant level of personalization on the PC, with the keyboard.