"This is the result of progress," sniffs the policeman to whom Felícito shows the extortion note.
"Science and the idea of progress may seem joined together, but the end result of progress in science is to show the impossibility of progress in civilization," he writes.
Mr. Xu said that popular enthusiasm for this round of national grass-roots elections appeared to be considerably greater than the last round in 2006, calling it "the result of progress in society as a whole, socially, economically and in the overall amount of freedom on the Internet".
The treatment of malignant bone tumors in children and adolescents has improved over the last four decades as a result of progress in many disciplines.
Laser-induced ignition is envisaged as a way to obtain high-energy ignition as a result of progress that has been made in laser beam technology in terms of stability, size, and energy.
In this article we propose that medical practice evolves as a result of progress along three different pathways: improvement in the ability to develop effective medical technologies, learning in medical practice, and advances in biomedical scientific understanding of disease.
He emphasises that while his ethical system, based on the organic nature of society, is due in part to the influence of the biological sciences, it would be an "entire misapprehension" to think that it were entirely due to this influence; his views are also the result of progress in ethics and politics (Alexander 1889: 7 8).
In no small measure, Tuttle's Farm's demise after nearly 400 years of continuous operation is the result of "progress" aided and abetted by advances in technology.
A growing number of ethical questions are being raised as a result of progress in the field of biotechnology.
The size of the nuclear genome in Cyanidioschyzon reported in the last decade has doubled as a result of progress in measuring techniques (Matsuzaki et al. 2004).
Indeed, since 1990 declining mortality rates have been seen in western Europe and Australia as well as the Americas as a result of progress in these activities (Veronesi et al. 2005).
