But any progress was difficult to measure.
Whether any of this barefootedness translates into academic progress is difficult to say.
But in a conflict in which momentum swings wildly and progress is difficult to ascertain, the rebels have yet to land a knockout blow.
Kane spent the later part of the 2012-13 season on loan at Leicester City, where he managed two goals in 13 Championship appearances and the speed of his progress remains difficult to comprehend.
But the sluggishness of the Pentagon's progress is difficult to understand, and also incredibly frustrating especially when, unofficially, women have increasingly found themselves in the very combat roles they're barred from.
For one thing, the determinism inherent in the idea of progress is difficult to maintain.
Moving up, rather than down, the divisions is the dream for Latics fans, but financial constraints mean a repeat of Royle's feat in marrying Cup shocks with league progress seems difficult to imagine.
On the other hand, while this progress is difficult to anticipate a decade ago, many exciting challenges and opportunities exists in the field, which in many ways has barely squeezed itself from the research laboratories.
Experience shows that solving a country's problems is too large a task for one office, and that progress is difficult to achieve without the support of strong democratic institutions and systems.
"The iceberg is one of the largest recorded and its future progress is difficult to predict," said Adrian Luckman, professor at Swansea University and lead investigator of Project MIDAS, which has been monitoring the ice shelf for years.
