You only have to listen to the spurious arguments put forward by those who defend the old order against any signs of modernity to know that a counter-revolution could easily sweep away all modest progress.
The authors, Elliot Slotnick, Sheldon Goldman, and Sara Schiavoni, suggest that the struggle over confirming judges represents an apt metaphor for the Obama Presidency as a whole: modest progress in the face of implacable Republican hostility.
The obstructionism was compounded by a calcification of ideas and a rejection of modest progress in favor of headline-grabbing failure.
TRADE negotiators were dismayed when in July India scuppered a chance to make modest progress on a global trade deal.
But in a year of only modest progress on international climate agreements, the researchers said, the Endangered Species Act protections may be like a Band-Aid fix for a broken bone.
A3 Pakistan and India Close Talks The foreign ministers of India and Pakistan concluded two days of talks in New Delhi with modest progress on a host of issues and an unusually blunt acknowledgment that the dispute over Kashmir still looms between them.
A1 Progress in Budget Talks Congressional leaders met with President Clinton and said they had made modest progress on a budget agreement that would let Congress finish its work and adjourn.
A popular possibility might be, on one hand, a half-hearted statement of openness towards future negotiations from the developing countries; and on the other a blurry or partial extension of the Kyoto protocol by the Europeans.There is also likely to be modest progress on a clutch of lesser issues, including the launch of a Green Climate Fund, to help poor countries cope with global warming.
Lund, who is dealing with a hamstring injury, has made modest progress in his return.
Festus Mogae in Botswana, for example, oversaw modest progress in a country made wealthy by diamonds and unencumbered by the ethnic divisions that have haunted so many others.
