Sentence examples for progress on civil from inspiring English sources

Progress on civil rights can occur in bursts.

He was decisive when necessary, but his successes — prosperity, peace, steady progress on civil rights — were just as often the fruit of strategic caution and masterly inaction.

Despite the Civil Rights Act (1964) and the Voting Rights Act (1965), many African Americans became disenchanted with progress on civil rights.

We often think of the nineteen-fifties as the decade of complacent conformism: a robust economy, a beloved war hero in the White House, slow but important progress on civil rights.

Mr Hadley said a G8 joint statement on climate change should take the form of an action plan pledging progress on civil nuclear power, clean coal and hydrogen-powered technology.

They list the pupil premium for children from poorer families, income tax breaks for those on low incomes, the scrapping of identity cards, progress on civil liberties, the referendum on electoral reform and more.

The appointment was announced alongside a new report on the progress of civil service reform.

"We have made good progress on settling civil claims arising from phone hacking, with damages for over 80% of claims now settled," the company said.

PARIS 00000245 003 OF 004 Furthermore, China was not blocking progress on Indian civil nuclear cooperation, but the UK fully expects that they will raise the case of Pakistan as soon as the Indian situation is resolved.

Slower still will be the progress of civil claims.

Lenders have become increasingly frustrated with Greece's slow progress on shrinking the civil service and making it more efficient and less corrupt.