Isn't it remarkable that, after 16 years of sustained effort by the U.S. military, the Af-Pak region is now home to 20+ terrorist organizations?
The report does acknowledge that new technology might be able to break the link between demographic growth and rapid resource depletion – but only if "sustained" effort is made by government to ensure these changes happen.
In 2008-12 homicides fell by 75% in the pacified favelas, twice as fast as elsewhere in Rio.But the UPPs also demonstrate the need for sustained effort.
Experienced practitioners having a hard day may be encouraged to learn that many public health triumphs we take for granted today (the apt title Silent Victories is from a 1923 lecture by C.-E.A. Winslow) were made possible only by heroic and sustained effort.
Consistent enforcement of traffic safety laws by State or local police and a sustained effort by the courts to impose penalties on violators discourage and deter non-motorists from making poor decisions at grade crossings.
The resolution adopted by the Security Council emphasized the need for sustained efforts by the 143,000-member force, known as the International Security Assistance Force, to assist the Afghan government in improving security and confronting threats by militants.
When applied to the intervention that is delivery of the expertise of generalist practice, NPT tells us that continued integration needs sustained effort by all parties to ensure that EGP is understood by all (patients, practitioners and the wider health system) and is reinforced through ongoing feedback.
Limited liability companies have been with us since 1855, yet it is hard to think of any sustained effort by shareholders to check their malpractices or harmful acts.
"We must be assured that if we make a decision to go forward, we see a sustained effort by Iran to come to the table, to work until we have reached an outcome that has Iran coming back into compliance with their international obligations," Mrs. Clinton said.
In spite of intensive and often sustained effort by industry and governments across three continents for 30 years, reductions in the incidence of electrocution have been demonstrated in only a few studies.
On your own website you've written that "people of faith have been systematically marginalized in America through a sustained effort by the left to change our common culture and give secular values the authority of law".
