Sentence examples for are substantially behind from inspiring English sources

Charney emphasized, however, that "most of the challenges we have faced were primarily technically oriented and we believe these challenges are substantially behind us".

One can barely engage media these days without hearing some news about the U.S. "educational crisis," where experts cite convincing statistics that demonstrate certain schools or school districts are grossly behind others, or worse yet, all U.S. schools are substantially behind foreign schools.

But East Asia/Pacific will need to make significant improvements, while South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa are substantially behind and would have to improve by average annual rates of increase of 3.2 percentage points and 4.1 percentage points, respectively, in order to reach 90 per cent coverage by 2010.

That does not satisfy Mr. Schweitzer, who is substantially behind Mr. Burns in fund-raising.

In 1968, it was after polls showed that Gov. George Romney of Michigan was substantially behind Richard M. Nixon that Mr. Romney decided to quit that year's Presidential race.

Trump put issued a statement through his lawyer, Michael D. Cohen, that said: "It would seem logical to me that if I was substantially behind in the polls especially in Iowa, South Carolina and Florida, I would want to participate in this debate".

"It would seem logical to me that if I was substantially behind in the polls, especially in Iowa, South Carolina, and Florida, I would be participating in the debate.

A contemporary market survey records that in 1953, payment rates were only one to two cents per word; this was substantially behind the leading magazines of the day.

At the time of his death, Kennedy was substantially behind Humphrey in convention delegate support, but many believe that Kennedy would have ultimately secured the nomination following his victory in the California primary.

Again, the study of plant foraging behaviour is substantially behind the understanding of the adaptive value of competitive behaviours aboveground, such as the shade-avoidance response (Dudley and Schmitt 1996).

Visitor numbers are substantially up.