Sentence examples for false progress from inspiring English sources

Original wallpaper, which I remembered later helping my mother strip with a steamer and a scraper, a good example of false progress.

The hearing took place amid reports that a whistle-blower within Central Command filed a formal complaint this summer charging senior officers with skewing intelligence data to portray false progress.

Moreover, there can be reference invariance between two successive theories, even though both of them are false; progress means then that the latter theory gives a more truthlike description about their common domain than the old theory.

Glazer and Bell are keenly aware that one-off success stories can read as false progress.

"It gives you a false sense of progress, as if you are really going somewhere," he said.

Senator Bob Corker, Republican of Tennessee, expressed concern that carrying on the dialogue would give a false impression of progress.

But as the Bush administration learned the hard way in Iraq, poorly devised measurements can become misleading indicators — and can create a false sense of progress.

Until recently I assumed that the failure to find W.M.D., followed by years of false claims of progress in Iraq, would make a repeat of the snow job that sold the war impossible.

If we continue to combat poverty primarily in terms of income, we do not merely mislead ourselves with a false sense of progress or an insufficient sense of urgency.

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.

Speaking to a joint session of both houses of the Indian parliament, he flattered his audience with the words "instead of being lured by the false notion that progress must come at the expense of freedom, you built the institutions upon which true democracy depends".