The phrase "account of progress" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when summarizing or reporting on the advancements or developments made in a particular project or situation.
Example: "The team submitted their account of progress at the end of the month, highlighting key milestones achieved."
Alternatives: "report on progress" or "update on progress".
And, this week, the Times revealed that the Pentagon is now investigating whether intelligence officials "skewed intelligence assessments about the United States-led campaign in Iraq against the Islamic State to provide a more optimistic account of progress".
This time, they will trust the government's account of progress only if it aligns with their own experience.Where the government does seem to be trusted perhaps too much so is in managing the economy.
Here the philosopher of science needs to provide an account of progress in terms of convergence on the truth or to show how progress can be understood in other terms.
A1 President Bush gave an upbeat account of progress being made by the United States in restoring services and order in Iraq, but did not make any long-term financial commitment to rebuilding, nor give specifics about the length of an American presence there.
Ultimately it calls into question whether he can be said truly to propose an account of progress.
This chapter gives an updated account of progress in alloy design, synthesis, structure, and performance of this class of alloys.
The Iraq conflict was "unwinnable," the advertisement argued; it also claimed that some of Petraeus's past accounts of progress there had been "at war with the facts".
The government will tell us, of course, but those with long memories will recall the notoriously unreliable government accounts of progress in Vietnam and wonder.
When, in 2006, I was in Manaus, the great river city right in the heart of the Amazon, I heard contradictory accounts of progress and regression.
In March 2014 the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released the Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability section of its Fifth Assessment Report (AR5), a comprehensive accounting of progress toward reigning in the production of greenhouse gases and the likely effects that climate change would have on humans and other forms of life.
