In nearly every successive economic cycle, progress came slower and harder than in the previous one.
He kept his nerve to hold his own serve and, after falling 2-0 behind in the tie-break, won seven successive points to progress.
As such, its structure has been compared to that of a Bildungsroman (educational novel), having an abstractly conceived protagonist the bearer of an evolving series of so-called shapes of consciousness or the inhabitant of a series of successive phenomenal worlds whose progress and set-backs the reader follows and learns from.
"The side has been developing well, making the Heineken Cup quarter-finals in successive seasons, and progressing well in the Pro12.
The evaluation of intraductal approaches for detecting abnormalities has been based on the prevailing model of breast cancer progression, in which epithelial cells lining the ductal lobular systems progress through successive stages of hyperplasia, atypical hyperplasia, carcinoma in situ (DCIS/LCIS), and invasive breast cancer.
These contracts, according to the company's annual report, "provide the basis for a recurring revenue stream as students progress through successive grades".
They made considerable progress, but successive setbacks in wars with China and Tibet (1788 92), with the Sikh kingdom in the Punjab (1809), with British India (1814 16), and again with Tibet (1854 56) frustrated Nepal and set the present boundaries of the kingdom.
Since the middle of the 18th century, there have been successive waves of technical progress: coal and steam, railways and the internal combustion engine at the end of the 19th century; the mid-20th-century age of consumer durables and commercial air travel.
The Paris agreement on its own would not end climate change, he said, but "this agreement will help delay or avoid some of the worst consequences of climate change, and will pave the way for even more progress, in successive stages, over the coming years".
Forced marriage should be made a criminal offence to send a stronger message that it will not be tolerated, says a report by a cross-party group of MPs today, which criticises the lack of progress by successive governments on the issue.
