But after decades of steep decline, progress has slowed nearly to a stop, and the infant mortality rate has changed little in the past five years.
With visibility at just a few metres, and with the sound of a huge river rushing in the steep valley below, progress is reduced to a crawl.There are excuses for the poor condition of the road.
But as we look forward toward welcoming such an agreement, we simultaneously call for early progress on steep reductions in sub-strategic nuclear weapons — in Europe often referred to as tactical weapons.
BEHIND THE NEWS The steep decline actually represents progress of a sort: it reflects the closing of academic loopholes at Auburn that let players pad their grade point averages with independent study classes that required little or no work.
Safety is everything in winter mountaineering, so progress up steep mountainsides, snow gullies and perhaps even a frozen waterfall is slow and sure, with a constant lookout for changing snow and weather conditions during the course of the day.
Understanding or interpreting rights in African settings within the framework defined by contemporary human rights discourse poses steep challenges to making progress in the realization of sexual and reproductive rights.
While The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel is steeped in discussions around progress for women, it does so in a way that's safe for Hollywood.
Starting with a shallow angle, you can always progress to steeper ones (keep that in mind).
For example, while the initial Hb expression boundary is relatively shallow, it becomes steeper as development progresses [13], [18], [31].
Around 350 hikers, porters and guides were making their way across the Thorong La pass on Tuesday morning when a ferocious, lashing freak snowstorm — the tail end of a dying cyclone that had ravaged India's eastern coast — closed in on them, burying their legs in snow and making their progress down the steep path to safety agonizingly slow.
