"firm progress" is correct and can be used in written English.
It is often used to describe a situation or project that is making steady and certain advances, without any major setbacks or obstacles. Example: "Despite facing challenges, the company has made firm progress in expanding its global market share over the past year."
For all its melancholy, the sentiments hold firm: progress and regeneration are not the problem; the problem isn't even sport and big money.
Members of the Cadbury family, he believed, should always have the opportunity to join the firm; progress was then according to their ability.
The ultimate goal – to produce more energy than the whole experiment consumes – remains a long way off, but the feat has nonetheless raised hopes that after decades of setbacks, firm progress is finally being made.
In both instances, the intervention looked like an attempt to restore some of the "family values" that seemed to have got lost in the go-go years of the late 1990s.In the typical family firm, progress is measured in small, regular steps.
Adjusting those strategies as the firm progresses along the sales learning curve allows managers to plan resource allocation more accurately, set appropriate expectations, avoid disastrous cash shortfalls, and reduce both the time and money required to turn a profit.
The evolving resource needs lead to a shift in networks as a firm progresses through various life cycle phases.
Germany 2006 was a picture of England abroad, as seen in Spanish and Greek resorts every summer: oceans of drinking in football shirts but not much fighting in firms, progress of a peculiarly English kind.
While some degree of freedom and flexibility is essential for productive innovation teams, management is faced with the challenge of instituting control mechanisms that lead projects in the right strategic direction, and monitor firms' progress towards their organizational and project goals.
'If there is any evidence of attempts to avoid or delay phase two I will not hesitate to resume publication of information about firms' progress.' The Personal Investment Authority, the pensions watchdog, was satisfied that all of the 41 firms had devoted significant energy and resources to compensating their mis-sold customers, she said.
The prospect of rising interest rates should not derail the firm's progress, it said, with customers showing resilience to tighter monetary policy.
The firm showed progress in its three major divisions for the year, with annual net revenue and pretax income up in global wealth management, asset management and institutional securities - although the fixed-income piece took a hit.
