Progress has been too slow

Here also progress is slow.

The ship made slow progress against the strong wind.

Progress in reforming the forestry sector has been slow.

In Africa, progress in achieving Millennium Development Goals remains painfully slow.

Nevertheless, progress in a number of other areas has been slow.

In the area of social and economic rights, progress remains slow.

Until the end of the reporting period, however, progress was extremely slow.

Progress in strengthening financing for sustainable forest management has been both slow and inadequate.

The National Transitional Government of Liberia made slow progress in restoring administration throughout the country.

Slow but steady progress had been made in the universalization of the IAEA additional protocol.

This implies that further progress in trade liberalization will be slow. But slow progress is a far less important challenge to growth prospects than the debt overhang in developed economies, or infrastructure and educational deficiencies in many developing economies.

However, every women's NGO had a fundamentalist counterpart, which meant that progress was slow and difficult.

While some of the recommendations are being acted upon, progress on others appears limited or slow.

As we can see, the progress made by my country is real, even if its pace is still slow too slow, given the acute needs and problems that exist.

(f) Constraints faced by civil society organizations, including the slow progress in the registration of non governmental organizations

I am encouraged by the slow, but steady, progress being made in the dialogue between Armenia and Azerbaijan.

Progress has also been slow in dealing with unemployment, economic development and raising the living standards of minorities.

Five years later, we must acknowledge that the pace of progress towards meeting those goals is too slow.

The slow progress in disbursing funds pledged under the Interim Cooperation Framework remains a major source of concern.

Thirdly, some of the provinces that are relatively slow in progress may face greater risks if they seek acceleration in progress in the second half of the year.

In the Commonwealth, 11 of our 53 members have already recorded significant progress on the MDGs, but 31 have made slow progress, and some are actually going backwards.

And the answer is that not only do you slow down technological progress, you can actually throw it into reverse.

Benchmarks and indicators Progress has been slow. About one third of the countries did not report on benchmarks and indicators.

However, overall progress in this area has been slow and greater interest needs to be generated with other United Nations agencies.

While progress has been made over the past decade in getting more children into school, the pace remains far too slow.

Both sides frequently reaffirmed their commitment to coordinate the implementation of the Israeli disengagement plan, though progress remained slow until April 2005.

8. Notes with concern that progress in the implementation of the recommendations in the report of the Secretary General remains slow and uneven

Overall, the pace of progress in electoral politics was slow only 13 per cent of the deputies in the national Parliament were women.

Regarding the tsunami and Nias disaster, delegations expressed concern at the slow progress of school reconstruction and rehabilitation in Aceh and North Sumatra.

Despite the relatively slow progress in the negotiation of the draft comprehensive convention, what has been achieved so far should not be underestimated.

But I feel that we should make progress.

The progress made in Benin had been slow, because socio cultural considerations had prevented elected representatives from fully accepting the concept of gender equality.

They expressed their concern at the slow pace of progress towards nuclear disarmament, which constitutes their primary disarmament objective and remains their highest priority.

Of course, progress towards more democracy and morality in international public affairs remains extremely slow. Yet the year 2004 may leave to history some of the greatest progress in this area that humanity has seen.

It you slow down, you reduce the amount of noise you make and you reduce the risk of collision.

Argentina rejects any arguments that make progress in nuclear disarmament contingent upon progress in conventional weapons.

That slow progress was of concern to the Zambian Government, which had initiated consultations with the Tripartite Commission for voluntary repatriation to resolve the problem.

The Monterrey International Conference on Financing for Development set out guidelines for advancing towards this goal, but progress, five years later, is proving very slow.

To make progress, we need to break the code.

Progress in the eastern Sudan peace effort has been slow, due partially to the parties' lack of clarity on mediation and the venue for the talks.

Technology will make a lot of progress in the nineties.

The Tribunal continues to make steady progress in apprehending fugitives.

The Agency therefore deplored the slow progress of States in subscribing to the strengthened safeguards regime, which helped it in its efforts to detect undeclared nuclear activities.

Such progress is slow and full of frustrations, for it reflects the incremental evolution of the system. But it is nonetheless real progress, indicating the growing influence of the Chinese media and pointing to China s becoming a country of free expression .