The problem has also featured in classified reports tracking progress in the war effort, most of which are far more negative than the public declarations of progress, said an American officer, who asked not to be identified because he was discussing secret information.
The rhetorical ambitions of the former line are obvious; the latter lines use colloquial abbreviation to underscore the inadequacy of blithe declarations of progress, as had Downing eschewed abbreviation here it would not be possible to read these lines as discretely aphoristic.
Camp David 2 collapsed without a mutual Israeli-Palestinian declaration, without a clear American declaration of progress and without any follow-up mechanism.
Logically I should stop making declarations of personal progress, but apparently I can't help myself.
One year after the declaration of famine, Somalia sees signs of progress MOGADISHU, Somalia, 18 July 2012 – Dressed in helmets and body armour, UNICEF Emergency Specialist Maulid Warfa takes an armed convoy through Mogadishu, passing through the strategic K4 crossroads.
Global reviews of progress towards the Paris Declaration targets have also highlighted the uneven transition of ownership from donors to partner countries, and concepts of ownership are often interpreted differently by different actors [ 2, 4].
"Lack of progress on Pisa has led to declarations of crisis and 'Pisa shock' in many countries," wrote a panel of academics from around the world in an open letter to Andreas Schleicher, director of education for the OECD, in 2014.
Lack of progress on Pisa has led to declarations of crisis and "Pisa shock" in many countries, followed by calls for resignations, and far-reaching reforms according to Pisa precepts.
Perhaps there should have been a single declaration of Apple's progress in the war on the pixel.
Most recently, the 2011 Political Declaration on HIV/AIDS targeted increases in school attendance of orphans as an important and measureable indicator of progress [ 2].
