The UN's chief climate change negotiator has predicted that a Barack Obama victory next month would jump-start progress toward global limits on carbon emissions.
While creating a network of more enlightened religious figures to compete with the hard-liners will take time, we could jump-start progress by creating a group of "mobile mullahs" — well-protected clerics who can travel through rural areas and settle land disputes and other issues.
In conclusion, effective upstream prevention programs have been identified that modify risk and protective factors for adolescent suicide, and key knowledge breakthroughs can jump-start progress in realizing the suicide prevention potential of specific strategies.
Jump-starting progress toward TB elimination requires a dual approach.
"If we don't jump-start progress for health, for water and sanitation, for education – key areas for the MDGs – in countries experiencing an emergency, we will never achieve the Millennium Development Goals".
"So although emergencies are terrible situations," he continues, "they are also incredible opportunities to enhance and jump-start assistance, and jump-start progress towards the rights of women and children.
UNICEF argued that the adjustment in development strategies needed to get girls in school and keep them there would jump-start progress on the entire development agenda for 2015, known as the Millennium Development Goals.
Believing in women's suffrage but realizing he couldn't just drop the idea of Eve's original sin, he gave his Eve the choice between immortality (which would lead to her living, he declared, "as a beast or a totally insane person") or eating from the Tree of Knowledge and thus jump-starting humankind's progress.
Once it started, progress was fast.
On Tuesday, President Barack Obama pledged to jump-start the country's lethargic educational progress and achieve his stated goal of having America boast the world's highest proportion of college graduates by 2020.
After all, even if we could somehow establish definitively that moral progress exists because the universe was jump-started by a God of Love, this just pushes the problem up one level.
