While Saudi Arabia has made progress in reforming its laws and prosecuting alleged acts of terrorism, the reasons cited above strongly suggest that this progress is, at least in part, illusory.
A group of experts from the Council of Europe said last year that the Vatican had made progress in reforming its legislation to meet EU standards but that a lot of work remained to be done.
While we have made progress in reforming policing, we are still at the beginning and there are many miles to go.
One of the reasons we have not made progress in reforming our immigration system is that one side of the debate thinks of itself as the law and order side and frames those of us who have proposed comprehensive immigration reform as opposed to the rule of law.
There's a belief that low-growth Italy has made progress in its reforms programme and that German-led austerity has to be replaced, or at least watered down, with a greater emphasis on jobs.
More broadly, he said that Mr. Ban "feels he has made progress in internal reforms," notably revamping the internal justice system to handle disputes more transparently; by encouraging senior officials to comply with financial disclosure rules; by strengthening whistle-blower protection; and by expanding the role of the U.N. Ethics Office.
Costa Mesa has made progress in pension reform, but the majority doesn't want to talk about the savings because it's never enough for their campaign against the unions.
Alexis Tsipras's hard-left government has made progress in completing 88 reforms that bailout monitors from the European Union and International Monetary Fund demanded in order to sign off the new loan.
Latin America has made progress in the last decade, but its many American-inspired economic reforms have had limited effect.
While making note of the economic fallout, the bank said that it was nevertheless "indispensable to make progress in structural reform," referring to accelerated write-offs of bad bank loans, now often criticized as overly harsh medicine at a time of such economic weakness.
"Serbia is undoubtedly making progress in the areas of state reform and public sector restructuring.
