Sentence examples for the wheels of progress from inspiring English sources

The wheels of progress are in motion.

Too many lawyers clogging the wheels of progress.

"It kind of greased the wheels of progress a bit.

In many firms jock-talk and late-night boozing still oil the wheels of progress.

More than $2 million was authorized almost instantly, in a city where money is tight and the wheels of progress often slow.

This time around, with a new protagonist and the action transposed to a different historical era, are the blades razor-sharp once more, or has the assassin's knife been blunted on the wheels of progress?

The easiest assumption is that some powerful entity suppresses one technology and favors another, and so the wheel of progress slowly turns.

Born to aristocratic parents in 1912, von Braun told his mother when he was about 10 that he wanted his life to "turn the wheel of progress".

And that may be what Obama was really getting at: the idea that public life itself is hard, with us, at best, placing "our collective shoulder to the wheel of progress" and realizing that just standing up with someone's help can count as a victory, even a remarkable one.

But for more than two hundred years, we have put those things aside and placed our collective shoulder to the wheel of progress – to create and build and expand the possibilities of individual achievement; to free other nations from tyranny and fear; to promote justice, and fairness, and equality under the law, so that the words set to paper by our founders are made real for every citizen.

America's patent system has "become sand rather than lubricant in the wheels of American progress", argue Adam Jaffe and Josh Lerner in a new book, "Innovation and its Discontents: How our broken patent system is endangering innovation and progress and what to do about it" (published by Princeton University Press).