Sentence examples for progress grim from inspiring English sources

In spite of recent progress, grim realities cannot be ignored.

Vardy's short spell as the Premier League's hottest striker was a surreal and extremely depressing journey to the heart of celebrity; starting with an incident of alleged racial abuse in a casino and ending with England's defeat to Iceland at the Euros, it was hard not to follow his progress with grim fascination.

Ms. McDormand plays Elaine, psychology professor and alarmed mother, who tracks her precocious offspring's progress with comically grim phone calls and urgent messages taken down by cowed hotel desk clerks in large block letters: "DON'T TAKE DRUGS!" "Elaine feels things deeply and soulfully," Mr. Crowe said by telephone from Los Angeles, "and in a hilarious way.

It was magnificent, and they secured progress with a grim 1-0 home win over Barcelona, but it was hard not to wonder whether that was really what Riquelme envisaged following when he railed against Julio César Falcioni's negativity last year.

But for councils that have already seen their funding cut by 40%, the chancellor's plans to cut Britain's deficit at the same pace as in the last parliament will still be grim – though progress on devolution is something to cling on to.

Though the stats about the global water crisis remain grim, major progress is being made in one of the most critical areas: child deaths.

Almost all, 92 percent, of these deaths were in Africa and nearly two-thirds were of children under the age of 5. Despite these grim statistics, progress is being made: deaths linked to malaria have declined since 2004, a period that corresponds with the scale up of the global response.

For store owners and overnight clerks, transaction windows in varying styles and degrees of security are an essential safeguard; for customers in still-dangerous neighborhoods, they are a way of life, a grim reminder that progress takes time.

In a grim mark of progress, searchers have moved closer to the center of what had been the north tower of the World Trade Center, and opened pockets of debris that contained the remains of 50 people, officials said yesterday.

Directors Mike Mitchell and Walt Dohrn teased that as the odd couple's journey progresses, their plight grows increasingly grim, causing the pair to lose their neon-colored hue.

IBC is an aggressive disease that progresses rapidly and carries a very grim prognosis.