Sentence examples for glimmer of progress from inspiring English sources

My ears pricked up, as I thought I detected a glimmer of progress – my ears pricked up.

Yet occasionally as we watch this one-woman blast from the Reagan era, an unexpected glimmer of progress surfaces.

In a glimmer of progress, an Arab League meeting in Cairo yielded an agreement with Russia that Arab countries hoped could lead to a new United Nations Security Council resolution on Syria.

The number of prescriptions for opioids written by health-care providers declined between 2012 and 2015, the government reported Thursday, introducing a glimmer of progress in efforts to quell the worst drug epidemic in U.S. history.

At Virgin, which recently celebrated its sixth anniversary, there's a glimmer of progress for its investors, including Richard Branson, the founder and entrepreneur in chief of the Virgin Group, the investment company that owns 25 percent of Virgin America (which is distinct from Virgin Atlantic, the international carrier).

There had been a glimmer of progress late in the day when the Senate voted, 48 to 47, with Mr. Pence breaking a tie, to begin debating stopgap spending legislation passed Thursday night by the House that would keep the government running through Feb. 8 and provide $5.7 billion to begin construction of the wall on the southwestern border.

There have been glimmers of progress.

But now there are glimmers of progress.

There are, though, a few glimmers of progress.

And some observers see encouraging glimmers of progress at Microsoft.

And there are glimmers of progress in protection of rights.