"We have arrived at the end of a road that has been long and difficult," he wrote on his blog on Friday, adding that a year ago the "menace" of Greece's ejection from the 19-member currency union had been tangible.
In particular, six weeks before the 2004 presidential election, General Petraeus published an op-ed article in The Washington Post in which he claimed — wrongly, of course — that there had been "tangible progress" in Iraq, and that "momentum has gathered in recent months".
Meanwhile Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said there had been "tangible progress" with the truce.
The results have been tangible.
"There have been tangible improvements in security in the recent period in Baghdad and the provinces, but it is not enough," Mr. Maliki said.
The improvement has been tangible, Green making the semi-finals at the world championships in Daegu, South Korea, There he met his idol, Maurice Greene, the 100m Olympic champion from Sydney, who provided Jack with his most potent Olympic memory.
And while he never went far that particular winter, it must have been tangible, the excitement of a nine-year-old boy, because it brought him to the attention of the girl who lived in the butcher's house.
The effect on academic standards has been tangible: Laycock said the percentage of students admitted from the top 10percentt of their classes with SAT scores below 1,000 has tripled since the 10-percent plans were introduced.
To the British, there has been tangible progress since Mr. Trimble's resignation, in terms of the pledge on disarmament and a plan put forward by London and Dublin to close the gaps.
For the country as a whole, the birthrate has fallen from 41 per 1,000 population to 37 in the last decade, but it is 30 in Kerala and Tamil Nadu, where education has made great headway, and 33 in Punjab, where the increase in agricultural production has been tangible.
Since the school partnered with Columbia, he said, there have been tangible results: average SAT scores have risen roughly 200 points — taking the new scoring methods into account — since Columbia students began a tutoring program called "Let's Get Ready" five years ago.
