But organizers said the final number of people protesting was 218,000, due, they said, to people who joined the march in progress.
The political strategist Anita Dunn, Obama's former White House communications director, said: "I don't think you can undo the march of progress in the country.
But the march of progress in military technology, he added, has an unintended consequence of its own: each advance gives the owners the tantalizing sense of invincibility, and "victory at low cost".
Some believe that history is cyclical while others believe that the march of progress in humankind is linear.
He accuses them of superstition in their belief in the march of progress; their commitment to individual freedom, he maintains, is an article of faith that has no grounding in science.
The core lesson of 2016 is that there is nothing inevitable in the march of progress.
It was, to Feig, a step forward in the march of progress.
These are the polar reactions to every step in the march of progress: everything will change, or nothing will.
Many, over the course of time, have come to be seen as inevitable milestones in the march of progress.
Here in Exeter, we are not so much the northern powerhouse, as the bricked up outhouse, forgotten in the march of progress, but paying higher utility and rents than most, and getting sod all in return.
And equitable, because too many children, families and communities have been left behind in the march of progress.
