Sentence examples for progress like a from inspiring English sources

What a cascade of misery this disease has brought, dogging civilization's progress like a bad conscience.

"It felt like there were a lot of people watching our progress, like a football game," Caldwell said.

Above them a dozen police and television helicopters hovered and circled, marking the motorcade's progress like a cloud of midsummer midges.

Mr. Qazi, the military commander, told me that in Irbil an "action in progress," like a suicide bomber trying to drive through barriers outside the Interior Ministry, is foiled about once a month.

Nor is it likely that the device would have been confiscated at security; Mr. Carbone said he had carried one aboard passenger flights to monitor the plane's progress, like a video game.

"I'm afraid I wasn't a very good mother at times," she says, recounting a time when one of her sons ran in and attacked a work in progress like a jealous lover.

The Eldoret talks also have made some tangible progress, like an agreement to cease hostilities, albeit one that has been repeatedly violated.

Salt Lake City now requires that private security companies or the property owners verify from the scene that there are signs of a potential burglary in progress, like an open door or a broken window, before the police will send a car.

The story progresses like a tournament: a series of tests that men inevitably fail.

Some, however, had disease that was progressing "like a runaway train", he said.

The disc takes a full hour, but progresses like a film; rarely is a new jazz record so well paced.