After 2000, China continued its stride in economic reforms.
In DAB-land, the Channel Formerly Known As BBC7 continues to get into its stride, unveiling The 4 O'Clock Show, a magazine programme clearly intended as a kind of after-school club for all the family (until 2007, The Big Toe Radio Show fulfilled that brief).
With the Stride video, he continued, "it's unique humor, but I'm not sure how it relates back to the brand".
Over its Kickstarter campaigns, Peak Design found its stride, and continued launching better and better photography equipment.
Obama continues to stride forward... and he's not done".
While Nigeria continues to make strides towards getting all its children into school, an estimated 3.2 million Nigerian children have never entered a classroom.
"If you can learn to control that, the positive energy cells in your body will help continue your stride," he said.
A wonderfully expressive dancer with clearly articulated movements, Cunningham in his youth would make stupendous leaps and continue in stride as if he had merely taken a little hop.
He would continue to stride exuberantly into the emergency department, a surgical decathlete in a starched twill white coat, poised for, as he once put it, "another opportunity to excel".
The temptation will always be to compare the occasion here to the men's game, and in this respect it seems heartening that the general view at Wembley was that England looked technically and tactically inferior, while Germany continued to stride away as clear favourites to win next year's world cup.
