Sentence examples for periods of progress from inspiring English sources

What accounts for such large gaps between periods of progress in this subject?

He described the process as evolutionary, alternating between periods of progress and reversal, and he expressed disappointment that the promised judicial revolution has yet to materialize.

In three years of ever-evolving Brendan-ism at Anfield there have often been periods of progress followed by a sudden plateauing out.

The history of Northern Ireland, Spain and others is of long campaigns against successive generations of terrorists, with periods of progress and of regress.

The president implicitly acknowledged that both are a work in progress, saying that it was going to be a long-term campaign with "periods of progress and setbacks".Right now, setbacks seem to be more evident than progress.

But it's also a phenomenon that could easily recede, as it has many times before after periods of progress: in the early fifties, when television was brand-new; in the seventies, the era of "Roots and Norman Learr; and again in the early nineties, post-Cosby, when black sitcoms thrived.

But was that period of progress an aberration or a foretaste of the fairer world to come?

His candidate lost the party's seat in the three-person presidency of Bosnia to Mladen Ivanic, a politician associated with a period of progress that ended in 2006.

It is 15 months since the consortium led by the Texan and his business partner, Tim Keyes, took over ownership of Dundee and, some difficult moments aside, they can consider it a period of progress.

He also ominously notes that while the "commodity economy" might at first usher in a period of progress, "after an enormous extension of human control over nature, it finally hinders further development and drives humanity into a new barbarism" (p. 227).

After the trauma of the war, it was a time of hope, a period of progress and achievement heralding a "new Elizabethan age".