Osborne said: "We have made a huge amount of progress.
"We've made a huge amount of progress in designing vehicles to better protect people in crashes.
The feeling among many diplomats present was that, having made a huge amount of progress, there had been a failure of political nerve in the White House, which has strongly supported the ATT since 2009.
Ralph Solveen, an economist at Commerzbank in Frankfurt, said the Spanish government had made "a huge amount of progress" since the start of the crisis, in improving economic fundamentals and fiscal policy.
Chip Roh, a former trade lawyer and the deputy chief negotiator of NAFTA, says that Mexico has made a huge amount of progress in opening its markets under NAFTA, and that it has closely followed the rules of the agreement.
"We recognise some companies have made a huge amount of progress, but it's a question of variation... in the standard of reporting.
"We are really excited about the Johnson & Johnson deal," says Chow. "We have made a huge amount of progress with our apps and over 1.5 million users worldwide.
I love an ambitious deadline as much as the next guy, but unless the company has made a huge amount of progress since the Indiegogo campaign was put together, the odds of meeting that production schedule seem slim.
I love an ambitious deadline as much as the next guy, but unless the company has made a huge amount of progress since the Indiegogo campaign was put together, the odds of meeting that production schedule seem slim.
"We're probably about halfway there in terms of getting transferable skills into Ph.D. programs," says Iain Cameron, head of the Research Careers and Diversity Unit within Research Councils UK. "We've made a huge amount of progress since 2003, but we've still got some way to go".
