Sentence examples for short-term progress from inspiring English sources

Perhaps President Obama thought he could win points for sincerity by pledging in coming months to have "a wide-ranging conversation with scientists, engineers and elected officials to find out what can — what more can we do to make short-term progress in reducing carbons [sic]." It's certainly not the first time this has been done.

There are fans like Josh Ashby, a season-ticket holder for eight years, who said he "would rather lose more games without him than win more games with him" because, they contend, Tebow would stunt the short-term progress and long-term development of the franchise.

The report compiles hundreds of metrics on the health of America's housing sector and finds that, despite some short-term progress since the recession, the long-term prognosis is grim.

It is more important to foster and preserve curiosity and a love of learning in the long run than to maximize short-term progress while damaging these traits possibly permanently.

As pessimistic as it sounds, perhaps immigrants will have to settle for the short-term progress of being humanized, which would still be an improvement over their current status as menacing specters conjured by the hard right wing.

Part of the problem lies with the structure of most aid agencies and their emphasis on short-term progress reports and "burn rates" — spending large amounts of money, and spending it quickly — often with little input from local residents, including youth themselves, on what's actually needed.

"So what I am going to be doing over the next several weeks, the next several months, is having a conversation – a wide-ranging conversation – with scientists, engineers and elected officials to find out what more we can do to make short term progress," he said.

In the short-term, though, progress remains slow.

While tempting, prioritizing the pursuit of short-term educational progress -- such as by assigning lots of homework -- rather than long-term goals is a tradeoff we should hesitate to make.

For this purpose, we need to establish a user model by capturing the patient's performance metrics (e.g., task completion times, scores, and errors) during the exercises and making use of that information to infer the short-term training progress of the patient.

Alan McQuaid, chief economist at Merrion Stockbrokers in Dublin, told Reuters that there is short-term relief that progress is being made in Italy: It's not an ideal scenario, but after two months of political deadlock, markets will see this as a step forward... Ultimately it could mean two steps back.