Sentence examples for stubborn gaps from inspiring English sources

David Steiner, the state education commissioner, said he was "particularly concerned by the tragically stubborn gaps" between black and Hispanic students and their white and Asian counterparts.

People from ethnic minorities living in rural areas have always been the majority of the extreme poor in that country, and recent Overseas Development Institute research points to stubborn gaps between them and the rest of the population.

The anniversary of the 1963 March on Washington was less a commemoration, speakers proclaimed, than an effort to inject fresh energy into issues of economics and justice that, despite undeniable progress in overcoming racial bias, still leave stubborn gaps between white and black Americans.

Test scores to be released today show most states improving the performance o eighth graders in math but few gaining in fourth-grade reading and even fewer narrowing stubborn gaps between black or Hispanic students and white students, a goal President Bush has said schools should have to meet to receive federal education aid.

The momentum from this historic meeting is the push we need, together, to close the stubborn gaps that remain.

And year after year, a stubborn gap persists between how well white students are doing compared to their African American and Latino classmates.

They must close the stubborn gap that leaves black and Hispanic students -- even those with well-educated and more affluent parents -- trailing their white peers.

And, in government, education has been a priority - tackling the stubborn gap in attainment between pupils from different backgrounds, and raising standards for all children.

Wages in Mexico have stagnated for more than a decade, and the stubborn gap between the nation's rich and poor persists.

Current methods can capture an average of 22% of unbound-bound transitions through conformer selection methods and another 57% through induced-fit methodologies, delineating a stubborn gap (21%) in backbone motion not covered by any current approach.

That stubborn gap has cost NBC's parent, Comcast, tens of millions of dollars in advertising revenue, much of which has shifted over to ABC's parent company, the Walt Disney Company.