Sentence examples for progress was modest from inspiring English sources

Though conceding that real progress was modest, he claimed with admirable precision that the Doha round was now 60% complete, compared with 55% at the start of the week.

Labour said progress was "modest".

One sign of progress is modest but significant improvement on the standardized test scores of its public school students.

They know that progress is modest, that roughly 70% of Zambians live on less than $1 a day and that AIDS has halved life expectancy to 33 years.

Labour's progress overall was modest for a party that aspires to win a general election in just two years' time.

Gravesham was taken from the Tories, though in nearby Medway progress was more modest.

The sole outcome was modest progress on tax avoidance, but that cannot have required two days in Fermanagh.

Since then, progress has been modest.

But reaching agreement on changes to ownership rules was particularly tricky and progress has been modest.

But such progress will be modest, ill co-ordinated and inefficiently won, while also drawing on the public purse.

ASEAN's failure to win any concessions from Myanmar has badly tarnished its credibility.ASEAN's overall progress has been modest.