Sentence examples for progress firsthand from inspiring English sources

It's a bit like the difference between hearing that a friend or family member has received a horrible medical prognosis and seeing the symptoms progress firsthand.

To see this progress firsthand, the Japanese Ambassador to Sudan, His Excellency Yuichi Ishii, recently visited remote villages where new schools have been built through a partnership between Southern Sudan, Japan and UNICEF.

Resilience and hope To see Liberia's rebuilding progress firsthand, a 19-member delegation representing the Executive Boards of UNDP, UNFPA, UNICEF and WFP recently completed a week-long mission to the West African nation.

To witness the country's progress firsthand, a 19-member delegation representing the governing bodies of several UN agencies has just completed a weeklong mission to the West African nation.

We saw the progress being made firsthand, ranging from billion-dollar investments already in the field to small-scale labwork.

For women who have experienced the changes firsthand, though, progress has been palpable.

The State Department announced today that Mr. Powell would travel to Kuwait and Iraq on Sunday "to see firsthand the progress being made by the international community and by the Iraqi people in rebuilding their nation and society from 30 years of Saddam Hussein's destructive rule".

In December I had the chance to visit Nigeria and observe firsthand the progress they're making.

In my visit last year to Peru, I had the chance to see firsthand the progress being made in the city of Carabayllo, where I worked for more than 15 years to help fight an epidemic of multi-drug-resistant tuberculosis.

Today, on our way back from Amhara, we visited Baso High School in the small city of Debre Berhan, and saw firsthand the progress in helping young people make informed reproductive health decisions.

BEIJING — As someone who has seen firsthand China's progress over the last two decades, I have been deeply disappointed in Beijing's treatment of Liu Xiaobo since he won the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize.