Sentence examples for progress have held from inspiring English sources

But for at least 40 years the ideas of seriousness and progress have held sway in jazz.

The producers, who regard this presentation of Echo Park as a work in progress, have held ticket prices to $20 to $35 and have not invited critics to the one-month run at the Apollo.

We are pressing ahead with this and currently making good progress, having held very constructive discussions with the European Commission last week".

The raise comes at a time when rumors cropped up that Twitter might buy Flipboard — though, to be sure, it's not exactly clear how far those talks progressed — and had held discussions with other companies like Google and Yahoo.

Most politicians here thought that Mr. Nader would begin to lose strength as the campaign progressed, but he has held steady at 4percentto5percentcent, which could cost Mr. Gore the state if it holds up at the polls.

That opposition has held up progress on an energy bill that included mandatory reliability standards for the grid.

Killings of trade union members in Colombia, though, have concerned some officials in Washington, where the issue, combined with partisan disagreements, has held up progress on a wide-reaching trade agreement.

Not until late in 1915, when World War I had held up progress on Die Frau ohne Schatten because Hofmannsthal could not find time to complete the libretto, did Strauss decide to compose the Ariadne Prologue.

And so the government concluded that it had in any case won: the book had gone into internal exile and would die off when those arm-linking old fools who had held up progress for the length of a summer died off themselves.

Audit Scotland said tensions between the islands council and NHS Orkney had held back progress in community planning.

But low funding has held up progress, Heaton says, and it still hasn't moved beyond the demonstration phase.