For all its relentless progress, Hong Kong has clung doggedly to an ancient Chinese construction technique -- surrounding its towers in a latticework of bamboo poles no different from those used by builders in China a thousand years ago.
Victory for Lethal Force in Saturday's race would take Cox's prize money total for the season past £1m for the first time, and it is a sign of his yard's relentless progress in recent years that he was responsible for both the first and second favourites for the race at the five-day stage.
"There's relentless progress across the board".
Iran's relentless progress on building a nuclear weapon.
Such progress stems from the silicon industry's relentless progress, particularly, in this case, in silencing electrical noise.
Kinglet from Highest and then Star Appeal and then Bustino, Bustino making relentless progress.
Mullins took a lead of just over £54,000 in the race for the British trainers' championship during racing here on Friday, but the fall of Vautour brought a sudden halt to his apparently relentless progress towards the title.
Yet behind I.B.M.'s relentless progress over the last decade is a game plan that has been anything but conservative.
Rubinson worked on response strategies, participating in conference calls and monitoring the relentless progress of the disease.
When I've been overseas, especially in places where few publications find their way, I always look for it — in Iraq, for example, where Newsweek's international edition kept up a steady drumbeat of accurately bad-news covers while Administration flaks in the Green Zone were claiming relentless progress.
But that relentless progress has now forced the industry to reckon with silicon's inevitable scaling limits, laid down by the fundamental laws of nature.
