Sentence examples for appearance of progress from inspiring English sources

But some legal experts said that releasing the plan to reporters as President Clinton was departing for China appeared timed to give the appearance of progress on human rights.

Yet the appearance of progress may be deceptive.

Ceiling tiles have been removed on both the upper and lower levels of the station with no appearance of progress to improve the conditions.

If there is even the appearance of progress in Moscow, Mr. Netanyahu hopes it may discourage Mr. Obama from acting for fear of appearing to be interfering, some scholars said.

But sometimes, depending on where you're standing in the matrix of race, class, wealth and geography, it feels that way, in which case, for all the appearance of progress, it may as well be.

While major operations like the attack on Falluja create the appearance of progress, over the last 60 years major powers have learned repeatedly that there is virtually no connection between seizing territory and defeating an insurgency.

The best and safest strategy for an Israeli government is to give the appearance, but just the appearance, of progressing towards Palestinian independence.

Three hundred and thirty million dollars can buy a team some talent, some credibility and a generous honeymoon — the appearance of instant progress shrouded in eight-figure contracts.

The big White House press event merely uses the appearance of incremental "progress" to forestall real, substantive changes to the one thing that unites us all: concern about the health and safety of the food we eat.

For Cockburn, the post-9/11 policy of targeted killing, far from being a departure, was but a continuation of previous U.S. assassination policy, observable, for example, in Operation Phoenix in Vietnam, where "the appearance of precision and progress" was "misleading". Despite large numbers of killings, the targets often escaped, while innocents were killed in their stead.

Despite the appearance of ecological processes progressing at a leisurely pace, scientists often find themselves in a race to understand swiftly changing paradigms.