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Make headway.
Progress in what you are trying to achieve.
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He then set about saving his new set of tyres to mount a challenge, but again was unable to make headway.
Monaco were unable to make headway into the Champions League this season after Valencia knocked them out, meaning they will play in the Europa League.
Known as the California Dream Act, the bill underscores the ways states are navigating their own way through controversial immigration issues, as the Obama administration has been unable to make headway on plans for an overhaul of immigration laws.
Situated in the middle of Europe, with hostile armies on two sides, and committed to the defense of Austria-Hungary, Germany was unable to make headway in the overseas world despite her strength.
Sequential sleepless nights can be an important warning sign, said Bo Fishback, vice president of entrepreneurship at the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation -- especially if you are worrying about the same problem and unable to make headway.
By my reckoning, then, an administration job, no matter how senior, would actually reduce my influence, leaving me unable to say publicly what I really think and all too probably finding myself unable to make headway in internal debates.
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Pro-Hamas sentiment could shift, however, if the movement and its allies are unable, after so many deaths, to make headway in the upcoming negotiations on their principal demand: that Israel and Egypt ease their tight curtailment of goods and people in and out of the tiny coastal strip.
Here, Sri Lanka were 30 for three, but the extra seamer, Tim Bresnan, was unable to make any headway until the fourth wicket had produced 124 runs.
Unable to make serious headway, it bought DoubleClick, and since the deal closed more than a year ago, Google has been integrating DoubleClick's technology with its own advertising systems.
Tiger Woods, having played a very solid first round in the tough afternoon conditions, got a morning tee time Friday but found himself unable to make much headway against par.
The political circumstances of the country are vague, and we never really understand why Ibrahim, who has a college degree in economics, has been unable to find any job beyond his uncle's garage, why he has been unable to make any headway in his efforts to emigrate.
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