Sentence examples for retards efforts from inspiring English sources

This significantly retards efforts to deal with the cause and prepare to deal with the effects.

Discussing economic data as if all racial/ethnic groups are equally positioned in society only hides the inconvenient truth of racial and ethnic wealth inequality and will retard efforts to pursue targeted solutions for closing the gap.

But the success of the election should substantially retard those efforts.

Since the norms within a given social network can help or retard the efforts of an individual to change behaviors, especially those related to sexual practices, such efforts should tap into existing social dynamics and patterns of communication to promote pro-condom norms.

That will retard the effort to improve the quality of care".

Third, multilateral efforts are retarded and often immobilized by dispersed authority and a complicated decision-making process.

It also means we are fragmenting our development efforts, potentially retarding the evolution of our libraries and toolkits.

If anything, besides uncorking the evil genie of inflation and wasting precious resources, these efforts have retarded our recovery.

Just as the intentional junk-science of the tobacco industry slowed the anti-smoking campaigns and government regulation of tobacco, so the efforts of "deniers" are retarding needed action.

And when the Chinese see American officials, prosecutors, and newspapers accusing them of stealing trade secrets and technology from American corporations, they see a concerted effort to retard China's industrial development.

His report on June 26 is among other things a primer on why any reasonable effort to retard the use of performance-enhancing drugs in sports will have to rely on circumstantial evidence.