Empires, Ferguson argues, have historically been as much a force for progress as a source of oppression.
Greene is a converted outfielder who has spent years refining his catching skills; his progress is a source of considerable pride.
Both "Colossus" and Ferguson's previous book "Empire" proceed from a controversial assumption for which he makes no apologies: it is that empires have as often been a force for progress as a source of oppression.
The Atomium was born in an era that saw the future both as a promise of progress and a source of concern.
This lack of any convincing progress has been a source of great frustration, and the inconsistency in early claims has rightly been criticized (Hirschhorn et al., 2002).
The ideal of a frictionless world, in which technology is a force for progress as well as a source of wealth, leaves out the fact that politics inevitably means clashing interests, with winners and losers.
Thomas M. Lessl, a scholar at the University of Georgia who has long studied the rhetoric and societal relationships of both science and religion, is well positioned to add to the recent discussion here over whether confidence in science as a source of progress is based on faith or fact.
So, Hume admires Newton's methodology, and sees it as a source of progress.
This approach, allows using the failure as a source of progress in maintenance and design to detect the most critical components in equipment, to determine the priority order maintenance actions to lead and direct the exploitation procedure towards the most penalizing links in this equipment, even define the necessary changes and recommendations for future improvement.
In the most ideal situation, grades hold students accountable for their performance, provide concrete validation of their progress, and can even be a source of inspired motivation.
