"models of progress" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It refers to various ways or methods of achieving progress or advancing towards a goal or improvement. Example: "The article explores different models of progress adopted by developing countries, highlighting their respective successes and challenges."
Mir was visited by three separate models of Progress; the original 7K-TG variant equipped with Igla (18 flights), the Progress-M model equipped with Kurs (43 flights), and the modified Progress-M1 version (3 flights), which together flew a total of sixty-four resupply missions to the station.
Locke and Voltaire applied concepts of Natural Law to political systems advocating intrinsic rights; the physiocrats and Adam Smith applied Natural conceptions of psychology and self-interest to economic systems; and sociologists criticised the current social order for trying to fit history into Natural models of progress.
For years, Turkey was the model of progress for many Muslim countries.
But Goldsmith's story makes that standard model of progress look like a tale of epic struggle and sacrifice out in the big bad world.
In the 1970s, high levels of schooling, health and regard for women made the country a model of progress.
It's impossible not to see in these pages an homage to another magic realist, Gabriel García Márquez, and his benighted inventor, José Arcadio Buendía, who dreams of transforming the backward mountain village of Macondo into a model of progress.
All those who voted for Tony Abbott must somehow believe that the current model of progress (which basically depends on selling off the country's resources to China) will last forever.
Now, in the dawn of the 21st century, when this nation above all others is supposed to be a model of progress and fairness and justice and due process, the U.S. military was to be given the high sign to start shooting Iraqis like dogs in the street.
The French thinker Simone Weil, who never ignored France's minorities in her broad-ranging reflections, recognised early that the old standardised model of progress had to be replaced, for the values of individualism and autonomy that originally brought forth modern human beings had come to threaten their moral identity and spiritual health.
This model of progress is also possible again from Africa to Asia, as well as those parts of Europe where the future remains dammed-up behind walls of new and old rhetoric of division. .
And more than any other, the dominant Wal-Mart model of progress is energy intensive: petrochemicals for plastics and textiles, container ships, trucking fleets, urban sprawl and minivans filled with loot.
