Sentence examples for making progress on the ground from inspiring English sources

Neither the Bush administration nor Pyongyang really trusted each other, he explains, making progress on the ground impossible.

The hope was that the parties could make progress on the ground before he got there, the official said.

As we make progress on the ground and Iraqi forces increasingly take the lead, we should be able to further decrease our troop levels.

But he told ITV's Good Morning Britain: "Additional air strikes in Syria will only have limited effect unless we can make sure that the forces we're supporting in Syria really can make progress on the ground".

If a robot is not able to trust other road users then it would refuse to make progress on the grounds of safety – it would calculate the worst that could happen and would decide to park instead and perhaps wait for night time when there is low traffic flow, or none at all.

While Stan's making progress on the espionage front, he's losing ground at home as discontented wife Sandra Susan Misnerr) is about to take off with a man she met at a New Age gathering.

We are making progress on the basics.

And that brings me back to my point: We need to be more grounded if we're going to make progress on the clean energy front.

"They want to see clear progress on the ground.

"I feel that we've made progress on and off the field during this time, achieving stability and giving the club solid ground on which to move forward.

House Republicans like to talk about the need to find common ground with President Obama to make progress on important national issues, especially after the election.