Progress
progress (noun) - over time improving and moving to a more advanced and desirable state
make progress solving a problem
make substantial progress
this represents substantial progress
economic progress
the progress of industrialisation
a child's progress in school
progress of humankind ("mankind" excludes women)
made rapid progress on the matter
remarkable progress in the case
impressive progress
progress towards a solution
make dramatic progress
chart progress
plot it on a progress graph
monitor progress
trace progress
evaluate progress so far
review and assess progress on a regular basis
follow the progress of the project
the rate of progress
accelerate progress
make good progress
make great progress
expected to make swift progress
made considerable progress over the years
spurs to progress
a lack of progress
impede progress
slow down progress
progress in his understanding and widen his experience
how the progress of industrialization was creating an apathetic citizenry the kind of people who could only be aroused by despots like Hitler
* "Human beings have made so much progress since the beginnings of civilization, says Godwin, that nothing can now hinder the ultimate goal, the perfectibility of man."
* "Economic progress within the EEC had been satisfactory."
* "Even gentlemen who did not normally display interest in babies sent anxiously to inquire about the little one's progress."
* "This report represents substantial progress."
* "Systems are required to facilitate progress monitoring."
* "The quality of an individual's performance will certainly be reduced when job progress is frustrated either owing to poor internal organisation and resources or to external factors beyond the employee's control."
* "Even if you work only a small number of hours, you still need to review and assess your progress on a regular basis."
* "In recent years, a great deal of emphasis has been placed on technological progress as a cause of structural unemployment."
* "I went to see her a couple of times, but she had made no progress solving the problem."
* "Here we can mention only a few events which led to major therapeutic developments, and pass by much else which gave the clues and spurs for progress."
* "Already Bahrain has become a major international banking centre with over one hundred and fifty bank branches and representative offices, although oil market developments plus the political environment of the region could curb its rate of progress."
* "Indeed, our understanding of the technique that is now used so widely and with such serious consequences seems to have made disquietingly little progress since the 1770s, when Franz Anton Mesmer first took Paris by storm with his new, bizarre technique."
* "By the beginning of 1939, he saw only the unpleasant alternatives of uninterrupted decay or some form of authoritarian political leadership which might arrest it artificially, and exactly a year later he described the fatal weaknesses of Western democracy, and how the progress of industrialization was creating an apathetic citizenry the kind of people who could only be aroused by despots like Hitler."
* "These are the skills, and the mastery over the material but he must also progress in his understanding and widen his experience by doing some research of his own."
* "Pupils are expected to make swift progress through the early levels."
* "Despite considerable progress over the years, the Auditor General's Department consider that there is still much progress to be made."
* "Whilst Kuhn maintains that science does progress in some sense, he is quite unambiguous in his denial that it can be said to progress towards the truth in any well-defined sense."
* "You were greeted by senior Iraqi officers who would take you through a maze of corridors to a communications centre where Saddam himself would be sitting and following the progress of the war."
* "Every hour after the operation, a nurse took his temperature and plotted it on a progress graph."
* "Thirty more minutes elapsed without any further progress before she and several others appealed to the crowd to disperse."
* "Collaborations between users and suppliers are the next major step to be taken in the progress of IT."
* "We are also worried that it took six weeks for the emergency stop-order to progress through the government bureaucracy."
