Sentence examples for step of progress from inspiring English sources

Award yourself brownie points for every step of progress.

Mr. Gates said that no date had been set but held it out as an example of a small step of progress.

This is an extremist version of Roberts's complaints about the Court vs. the ballot, and rather extraordinarily makes one wonder if Scalia thinks that every step of progress this country has made should have been dependent on majority approbation.

Mr. Gates said that the commander of China's nuclear missile forces, Gen. Jing Zhiyuan, had accepted his invitation to visit the United States Strategic Command in Nebraska, which he held out as an example of a small step of progress.

"This was an inevitable action we had to take, because we could not make one step of progress in our talks with the opposition, which thought only about its partisan interest," Kim Ki-hyun, a governing party spokesman, said of the hurried vote.

Thus, each subject performed ten GAST tasks, and in each trial the subject made one step of progress on one task randomly selected from the ten.

There are some baby-steps of progress.

"To retreat now," he said, "would put at hazard all that we hold dearest, turn the United Nations into a talking shop, stifle the first steps of progress in the Middle East, leave the Iraqi people to the mercy of events on which we would have relinquished all power to influence for the better".

To retreat now, I believe, would put at hazard all that we hold dearest, turn the UN back into a talking shop, stifle the first steps of progress in the Middle East; leave the Iraqi people to the mercy of events on which we would have relinquished all power to influence for the better.

That is not to say that small steps of progress are not happening across the board: had my 19-year-old sister opted to go to Oxford or Cambridge, my parents would have been happy for her to study away from home – perhaps not the case with me 10 years ago when I was filling out my Ucas form.

Marguerite Griffin, national director of philanthropic service at the wealth management firm Northern Trust, said that people who wanted to be involved in education charities needed to be prepared to wait for results, and that could be frustrating for people who were not volunteering their time and seeing the small steps of progress.