"further our progress" is a perfectly acceptable phrase in written English.
It is often used when talking about making progress as a group. For example: "We must work together to further our progress on this important project."
Gender equality is included explicitly in SDG 5, and investing in women and girls furthers our progress towards all of the global goals.
"However, recent displays have unfortunately not lived up to expectations and our poor disciplinary record this season has only further hampered our progress.
Those who believe we have entered a post-racial society ignore that we divide ourselves into categories and stereotypes that only further stunt our progress.
"Management has decided to delay this call until we can provide further discussion about our progress".
Each can help further the progress our country has made in achieving equality and justice, or transport us back to a time when the courts ignored the rights of women and African Americans, of religious and ethnic minorities, of criminal defendants and others to equal treatment and due process.
This is the time to redouble our efforts and further accelerate progress to decarbonise our economy.
"They have to open the discussion of, 'How does that dress code further the progress of our people?' 'How does it improve other people's vision of us?' It gives a negative image of our people and we know it".
Although maybe not yet seen as an optimal marketing strategy by the pharmaceutical sector, as our knowledge of predictive tumour markers increases and as a more diverse range of targeted drugs becomes available, further dramatic progress in our ability to treat advanced CRC could lie in a more individualised and scientific process of treatment selection for the patient.
As long as Democrats stick to the New Democrat formula that produced that progress -- furthering our party's first principles by modern means to tackle America's new challenges -- we'll retain the confidence of the American people.
