"promotes progress" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it when you want to describe something that leads to improvement or development. For example, "The new policy the government has put in place promotes progress in education."
As for the dissent's objection that extending a subsisting copyright does nothing to "promote Progress," we think that implies a rather crabbed view of progress: Preserving access to works that would otherwise disappear -- not enter the public domain but disappear -- "promotes Progress" as surely as does stimulating the creation of new works.
The government contends that Section 514 of the pact, promotes progress through "active participation" in the global economy.
The fight over patents and credit impedes the free exchange among scientists that promotes progress, and companies created from taxpayer-funded research make us pay twice to use their products.
In one part, Kylo Ren explains to an underling just what this new legion aims to do: "It is the task of the First Order to remove the disorder from our own existence, so that civilisation may be returned to the stability that promotes progress.
A number of Bitcoin investors and cryptocurrency enthusiasts have teamed up to create a "Bitcoin Black Friday," where hundreds of retailers and charities, including OkCupid, an online dating service, City Wine Cellar, Reddit and GOOD Magazine, which promotes progress, will accept the currency on Black Friday.
This cumulative view of scientific progress was an important ingredient in the optimism of the eighteenth century Enlightenment, and it was incorporated in the 1830s in Auguste Comte's program of positivism: by accumulating empirically certified truths science also promotes progress in society.
It is a grant of a power to promote progress.
For years, the Embassy's top goal has been to promote progress in these areas.
A previous competition proved wildly successful at promoting progress in a related field.
This upholds the original Constitutional purpose of copyright, which is to promote progress.
This clarity is essential to promote progress, because it enables efficient investment in innovation.
