Speaking of the backend, the team has made some crucial progress on the software side of things — all of that water quality information can be accessed through a revamped mobile app that also allows users to get water usage goals and forge social connections to see who can be the most environmentally conscious.
Mr. Kuo warned that rapid progress was unlikely, especially before China's leaders make crucial decisions about Taiwan at their annual seaside retreat in August.
While the women's movement has made some very crucial progress, these personal stories remind us that feminism is not only important, but absolutely necessary.
It's not even the crucial progress we can make in a good parental meeting, where no one can dispute what was said because everyone was there.
He made some progress repairing crucial business lines, but the firm's stock, at about $24, continues to struggle.
Chinese officials have made some progress in disclosing crucial air pollution statistics.
Although General Petraeus said there was "no question" that the Americans and the Afghans had made military progress in the crucial provinces of Helmand and Kandahar in the south, he said the Taliban were moving to reconstitute after the beating they took this past fall and winter.
Still, he claimed that the government had made progress on some crucial fronts, including a slight reduction in the unemployment rate for college graduates, to 22.2 percent, and a 4.4 percent increase in workers in rural areas, where high unemployment has been persistent.
And yet critics argue that, in crucial respects, the city had made little progress by the time of the second World Trade Center attack.
It is one of the crucial transformations of earth-given materials that made human progress possible.
