Sentence examples for any serious progress from inspiring English sources

The last time we had a major issue that truly cut across partisan divides in America, it was racial integration, and the result was that a bipartisan racist alliance was able to frustrate any serious progress until one party finally decided to embrace civil rights and write off the racist vote for a generation.

But despite the work spearheaded by football's "Kick it Out" organisation (founded in 1993, initially with a focus on racism), any serious progress on combatting homophobia may be some years off, at least for an English game whose only openly gay man, Justin Fashanu, was taunted and bullied and then killed himself in 1998.

North Korea called President Bush an "imbecile" and "a tyrant that puts Hitler into the shade" on Monday, unleashing a stream of insults that seemed to rule out any serious progress on nuclear disarmament talks before the American election this fall.

It's difficult to say whether we've made any serious progress in defining intelligence over the last 3,000 years.

We must look outward to our state, other states, and to the federal government for any hope of serious progress.

BEIRUT, Lebanon — President Bashar al-Assad of Syria, in a rare interview with a foreign newspaper, appeared to dismiss the possibility of serious progress arising from any peace talks, and to back away from earlier statements by Syrian officials that the government was willing to negotiate with its armed opponents.

Serious progress in the immediate future still looks improbable.

The therapist said that this was serious progress.

He's in this third season already, when can we expect to see some serious progress?

Mr. Draghi had suggested that more action could follow if leaders made serious progress.

Tusk issues a clear warning that he wants serious progress at an emergency EU summit.