Sentence examples for disappointing progress from inspiring English sources

Obama's contributions in Copenhagen can't shield the disappointing progress at home.

Meanwhile, there has been disappointing progress in reducing poverty in Mexico, where real wages have been falling at the rate of 0.2percentt a year.

ShareAction said it would press Rio Tinto on how it would implement pledges in the resolution, in light of what it argues is disappointing progress by BP.

There are other explanations for the disappointing progress in reducing ozone levels, including the limitations of existing pollution-control technology and the increasing number of cars on the road.

Hillier said: "It beggars belief that, having made disappointing progress on tax evasion and avoidance, the taxman also seems incapable of running a satisfactory service for people trying to pay their fair share".

Recent Spanish difficulties, including slower growth and disappointing progress on fiscal goals, suggest that this ugly scenario is becoming more likely.The fund reckons that growth in America, Japan and emerging Asia could be reduced by more than a percentage point in 2012 and 2013 if the ugly scenario did indeed occur.

Notwithstanding this disappointing denouement, progress on another significant gun issue is tantalizingly close.

This wave of global action makes it all the more disappointing that progress has stalled in the UK, despite pledges from the Conservative party in the 2010 and 2015 manifestos to address the issue of ivory sales.

"Commitments to new investment and 80 additional jobs for journalists long overdue and very positive". But she added: "It doesn't deliver everything that everyone wanted - e.g. no Scottish 6 disappointing - but progress and hopefully sign of new thinking". Scottish Conservative culture spokesman Jackson Carlaw said the move was "good for jobs, journalism, scrutiny and programming".

The initial results of CCRS + HIPEC were disappointing, but progress in techniques and in indications in ongoing prospective trials is giving promising results.

Barack Obama's presidency hovers at the margins of this book, largely as a somewhat disappointing work in progress.