Sentence examples for progress wednesday from inspiring English sources

MELBOURNE, Australia — With the reigning No. 1 player Caroline Wozniacki out of contention, the would-be No. 1's continued their progress Wednesday at the Australian Open.

UNITED NATIONS — President Obama, in his first visit to the opening of the United NationsGeneral Assembly, made progress Wednesday on two key issues, wringing a concession from Russia to consider tough new sanctions against Iran and securing support from Moscow and Beijing for a Security Council resolution to curb nuclear weapons.

After years of litigation and repeated demands for transparency, human rights attorneys were offered signs of progress Wednesday evening, as the Obama administration ordered the Justice Department to release a classified memo detailing its legal justification for the targeted killing of US citizens abroad to two congressional intelligence committees.

Shiite leaders reported progress Wednesday toward an agreement that would end a five-week-old standoff with the radical cleric Moktada al-Sadr in the holy city of Najaf, but Mr. Sadr himself vowed to fight on and gun battles continued between American forces and his followers.

The union representing 20,000 ramp workers and customer-service agents at United Airlines reported "significant progress" Wednesday in negotiations aimed at averting a contract deadlock and threatened strike.

(Press release) Bellamy to Africa leaders: Use child well-being as measure of progress Wednesday, 11 June 2003 – The Executive Director of UNICEF today called on African leaders attending an economic summit here to embrace child-centred standards as the primary measure for gauging progress across their continent.

There was no apparent progress Saturday, although the Nuggets made a counterproposal to the Knicks.

Scientists reported more progress Thursday with a method of creating stem cells without using embryos.

Regular-season games will fall if the parties do not make meaningful progress Tuesday.

Burress was unavailable for comment with reporters after Thursday's practice but plans to talk about his progress Friday.

Meanwhile, the engineers who are working to repair Spirit, which has been malfunctioning since Wednesday, reported progress Sunday.