Sentence examples for slow achievement from inspiring English sources

Why did California decide on six years of relatively slow achievement growth, followed by six years of extraordinary gains?

Rather than being invented all at once "in a fit of inspiration by a single king, general, philosopher or court wizard," the game we know today was "the result of years of tinkering by a large, decentralized group, a slow achievement of collective intelligence".

8 This slow achievement of national targets indicates wide economic and regional inequalities in maternal and child health services.

Scores increased only marginally for eighth graders and not at all for fourth graders, continuing a sluggish six-year trend of slowing achievement growth since passage of the law, which requires schools to bring 100percentt of students to reading and math proficiency by 2014.

40 In both treatment arms, higher baseline testosterone led to slower achievement of castrate testosterone levels; however, achievement of castrate levels occurred significantly faster with degarelix than with leuprolide for all testosterone subgroups.

While results in terms of outcome (coverage) and impact (mortality reduction) would be slower in achievement, the accomplishments achieved would be more sustainable and contribute to a viable community-based health-care system.

Now, with these young activists detained, we see the progress to gender equality is so slow, our achievements are so little and the potential risk [to campaigners] is so huge".

Why (besides jealousy, perhaps) are some scientists unhappy with the Nobels?One reason is that the committees can often be slow to recognise achievement.

Although it was usually impossible to conceal the massing of troops or ships, communication was slow, making the achievement of strategic surprise a difficult matter of balancing the time required to assemble large forces against the time needed by enemy agents to discover and report them.

"We simply cannot afford to see improvements in student achievement slow down or stall in the nation's second-largest school district," Duncan said.

Most of Slow Food's achievements in its first years in the United States were intellectual.