Sentence examples for solid advances from inspiring English sources

The Standard & Poor's 500-stock index and the Dow Jones industrial average posted lesser, but still solid, advances.

But for the time being, the war is profoundly troubling a party that ought to be making solid advances in the mid-term elections.

At his press conference, Mr. Bush gave a progress report on the war to date -- and found solid advances on every single front, without a single setback, not even a minor one, of any kind.

The Dow Jones industrial average -buoyed by solid advances in blue chips like Coca-Cola, Boeing, Du Pont, I.B.M. and Woolworth - advanced an impressive 63.07 points, or 2.3percentto to 2,801.58.

On last point: I completely agree with Mike that you could do science a service by getting journalists to pay more attention to our own professional journals and not focus so exclusively on the high profile journals, which often tend toward the sensational at the expense of solid advances.

Leisure and hospitality, education and health, transportation and warehousing, and retail all had solid advances.

It was a solid advance — one he didn't forget.

[C14.] Stocks Rise on Production Numbers The strongest industrial production numbers since June 2000 gave stocks a solid advance.

Wall Street ended a terrible quarter with a whimper yesterday when shares retreated from a solid advance early in the day and ended the session mixed.

Barring a solid advance over the remaining three trading days of 2000, the Nasdaq composite index will record the worst year since its inception in 1917.

The solid advance of the Lib Dems in 2001 - against the expectations of many in the party - was a vindication of the softly-softly strategy.