Not everyone agrees that this is the benchmark against which progress should be measured.
In a world filled with flawed performers, transformation is the axis on which progress revolves.
Negotiations around global governance, on which progress has been halting at best, will be tougher.
The one issue on which progress is possible at Davos — trade — will be discussed behind closed doors.
One traditional industry in which progress is being made is the automotive branch, where companies are pursuing digitalisation.
"Ah Perfidoo" is famous for its shifting moods, which progress from rage to despair to a strange exhilaration.
While this might be a modest contribution in the wider context, it offers a bridgehead of principle from which progress can be made.
McCarthy - as philosophical, straight-talking and disdainful of punctuation as ever - presents a world in which progress has fallen by the wayside and humanity has sabotaged its dreams.
The contents of the library, like Hayden herself, often directed my attention to the systems by which progress is made and recorded.
Last evening's negotiations marked the second day of budget talks in a row after several days in which progress had been stalled.
He bemoans the way in which progress is stalled by all the dastardly forces in Washington, as if he were not the most potent force of all there.
