The phrase "a price of progress" is not correct; it should be "the price of progress." You can use it when discussing the costs or sacrifices associated with advancements or improvements in various fields, such as technology, society, or personal growth.
Example: "While the new technology has improved efficiency, many believe that the price of progress includes job losses in traditional industries."
Alternatives: "cost of advancement" or "sacrifice for progress."
In the past, the conventional wisdom among those attending the World Economic Forum — at least among the corporate executives who pay their way, rather than the officials from government, academia and nonprofit groups who are invited — was that a wide level of inequality was an acceptable price of progress.
The only homegrown writing on the Man Booker short list was represented by Jim Crace's Harvest, a parable about the price of progress for a long-ago (possibly 18th-century) rural community and a work that its author said would be his last novel.
While John Henry emerges as an everyman - or at least every freed slave who left the plantations for hard, often lethal, labour on the railroads - the novel searches for meanings in the legend: man against machine; an "ideal of black masculinity in a castrating country"; the high price of progress.
Those attempts are now available to recap in full in one convenient fail video, created by SpaceX, which provides an amazing look at the price of progress when it comes to rocket science.
Destruction of businesses, fortunes, products, and careers is the price of progress toward a better material life.
Clinton is very much a product of the generation that accepted a certain amount of humiliation as the price of progress.
To a great extent, increases in dementia are the price of progress: more and more people are living long enough to get Alzheimer's, some because they survived heart disease, strokes or cancer.
If we suppose they all benefit, then 2.7 million people have a severe reactions, it's only about 1.5percentthe the price of progress?
Many companies, economists and governments regard environmental destruction as a regrettable but inevitable consequence of economic growth – the "price of progress".
The theme of compromise as the price of progress in this country is a compelling one.
