Sentence examples for were being tackled from inspiring English sources

It was not obvious that these issues were being tackled in 2012?

Mr. Volcker, appearing with the president, said there were "big economic problems behind the financial system" that could not be deferred, even while more immediate crises were being tackled, a point the president has made repeatedly.

Problems associated with obesity, such as heart disease and stroke, were being  tackled by a council-funded fat-fighting programme, which includes free exercise classes and diet advice from a local leisure centre for overweight people, he said.

While final obstacles to adopting the resolution were being tackled in closed-door talks between the permanent five members of the Security Council, the timetable to final adoption by all 15 members was being held up by the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, OPCW, in The Hague, which first must agree the terms of the US-Russia framework agreement reached in Geneva.

Councils said the issues were being tackled.

Hospital chiefs refuted the comparison and said problems were being tackled.

The mayor added that he was not trying to minimise gang culture, saying it was a problem that needed to be tackled and was being tackled.

Slowly, such problems are being tackled.

But the problems are being tackled.

"Big moral questions are being tackled with imagination and wit".

He knows that, and the problems are being tackled".