Sentence examples for scant progress in from inspiring English sources

Hampered by ideologues and cowards in Congress, President Obama has made scant progress in healing it.

But despite the ceaseless exhortations, there has been scant progress in rectifying these matters.

And while the group has worked hard to make racing safer, it has made scant progress in changing how racehorse veterinarians earn their money.

In this info-vacuum, rumours of the president's weight loss and frailty abound.Nigeria's media have made scant progress in solving the mystery.

The anthrax manhunt is stalled and there has been scant progress in the supposed push to bring local hospitals up to speed in identifying and countering bioterrorism.

But it has made scant progress in loosening Microsoft's grip on the market for PC operating systems, where Microsoft enjoys a monopoly.

It is the scant progress being made in America that may have prompted Gordon Brown to make an impassioned plea for progress in an article published yesterday by the US magazine Newsweek.

The five central Asian republics have made scant progress towards democratic reform in the two decades since independence.

[The Duluth News-Tribune] Twelve years into a multibillion-dollar state and federal effort to save the Florida Everglades, scant progress has been made in restoring the core of the ecosystem, the National Research Council reports.

But despite four years of haggling, the negotiators are at loggerheads over how to free farm trade, have made scant progress on liberalising trade in services and have done virtually nothing on cutting industrial tariffs.Most attention is focused on farm trade.

The data released by the world's largest social network on Thursday reflects the scant progress made by Silicon Valley heavyweights in making their workplaces more diverse in the face of criticism for having mostly white, male workers.