Sentence examples for shown modest progress from inspiring English sources

But those initiatives have so far only shown modest progress.

Community schools are often praised for substantial turnarounds in attendance and graduation rates, and in Cincinnati, the schools that first embraced the model have shown modest progress.

The results of New York State's fourth-grade reading test, released last week, showed modest progress in school districts in the city.

In 1997, the Romanians Irina Spirlea and Ruxandra Dragomir broke into the top 20, which showed modest progress.

Coke, which has said recently that it will try to spark consumers' interest with new package sizes for its brands, has begun to show modest progress.

The Knicks showed modest progress in Thomas's first season as coach before injuries intervened, and Dolan rewarded him with an extension.

A study of 22 years of phase III trials for patients with advanced NSCLC (Breathnach et al, 2001) showed modest progress in survival for these patients: MST increased from 5.2 months in the early period (1973 to 1983) to 5.8 months in the later one (1984 to 1994).

This year's figures for serious further offending by those under the supervision of the multi-agency public protection arrangements - made up of police, probation and prison staff and known as Mappa - show only modest progress.

But the raw numbers behind the news also drew scrutiny, both because they show more modest progress and because skeptics wonder whether the tests are becoming easier to pass.

The report, issued every year since 1976, showed modest gains in some areas, but leaves plenty of concerns about the speed of progress more than 50 years after the passage of the Civil Rights Act.

European stocks showed modest gains.