Sentence examples for slowed down progress from inspiring English sources

But India's high open defecation rates have slowed down progress.

Mr Putin has slowed down progress on the budget, on pensions and on privatisation.

At an oversight hearing for the agency, its chairwoman, Mary L. Schapiro, said that the increased analyses that Republicans had been pushing had slowed down progress toward new rules.

Working full-time in a demanding job definitely slowed down progress on my thesis!

18 These issues have slowed down progress in improving and updating the process of data collection including the development of an electronic collection system.

This may be one of the critical challenges within health systems in the developing world that have slowed down progress towards achieving MDG5.

At best, the lack of publicly accessible well logs is slowing down progress toward sustainable groundwater management.

One year later and it is on the verge of a new civil war that could slow down progress in a country already considered by the UNDP to be the third poorest in the world.

This would not only leave Europe without coherent accounting standards but would also slow down progress towards global rules, on which the IASB and its American counterpart have been toiling for years.Not all European banks, however, are at odds with the IASB's derivatives rules.

It will slow down progress".

And, in turn, can slow down progress.