The Better Life index uses 11 separate measures – housing, income, jobs, community, education, environment, governance, health, life satisfaction, safety and work-life balance – to piece together an overall impression of progress.
"Transit," which closed the set, paired a driving swing tempo with a dronelike harmonic underlay, creating a dual impression of progress and stasis.
Senator Bob Corker, Republican of Tennessee, expressed concern that carrying on the dialogue would give a false impression of progress.
Even though it has expanded over the years, this gave a misleading impression of progress if the banks were not underpinned by institutional safeguards to prevent excessive and imprudent lending.
Failure to follow that up risks leaving even attentive readers with a false impression of progress in the field.It would be easy to point the finger at lazy journalists for this state of affairs, and a journalistic version of attention-deficit disorder is, no doubt, partly to blame, for the press has a natural bias towards the new and exciting.
Despite its popularity, critics of the game claimed that it did not offer a serious workout regimen: game menu breaks prevent the sustained elevated heart rates necessary for improving cardiovascular health, and the ability to cheat on certain exercises can present a false impression of progress.
Unable to show solid progress, Mr Blair fell back on the techniques of opposition, spinning the news to convey an impression of activity and progress.
Connecting all of these incongruent modes is an upgrade economy that creates the impression of progress.
Wrapping up two weeks of talks, Staffan de Mistura, the UN Syria envoy, strove to give the impression of progress by producing a statement of 12 guiding principles.
