Sentence examples for progressed amid from inspiring English sources

The preparations have progressed amid a global economic downturn, and the leader of the city's organizing committee, Olympic track champion Sebastian Coe, addresses that and the other issues that may affect the Games during a recent conference call with reporters.

Mr. Davis made snail's-pace progress amid the hugs and kisses.

It is an open question as to whether he can make progress amid the tabloid melodrama and intraparty machinations.

And lo, there was Franco, making solemn progress amid a host of minders, hangers-on, photographers, and other orbital persons.

In southern Europe there was "positive progress", amid an upturn in economic growth in Spain and Italy, despite persistent youth unemployment.

But work to house tens of thousands of displaced residents has made slow progress amid administrative holdups, rising construction costs and the challenge of rebuilding on high ground away from the vulnerable coastline.

But both sides called the trip progress amid hopes that its friendly symbolism, which includes pandas and table tennis, would help ease Japanese insecurities about China's rising economic and military might.

On the eve of Ford Motor Co. 's 100th anniversary, Chairman and Chief Executive William Clay Ford Jr. William Clay Ford Jr. sat down with Forbes Detroit Bureau Chief Joann Muller to talk about the company's recent crisis, its turnaround progress amid a fierce price war with General Motors and DaimlerChrysler and his long-term strategic vision.