They produced either no worthwhile progress toward a deal or took the negotiators to the verge of a new agreement, depending on the point of view.
Half a mile out it was already apparent how rash that assumption was, as Brown Panther had built an almost impregnable lead and despite their best efforts the pursuers could make no worthwhile progress in the final quarter of a mile.
Worthwhile progress has been made towards what could be an exciting and useful technology framework that the author believes could substantially improve end-users inclusion in the design process.
Other ideas, however, represent worthwhile, if modest, progress toward reforming the housing system that failed so badly in the financial crisis.
Kim Echlin, author of The Disappeared, said that "the internet is as profoundly altering a technology as the Gutenberg printing press was in its time", suggesting that while change is certainly afoot, it is an inevitable and worthwhile stamp of progress.
After all, it was his father, Senator Robert Kennedy, who noted the implicit dangers of the United States prioritizing the GDP over more "worthwhile" indicators of progress: "It measures neither our wit nor our courage, neither our wisdom nor our learning, neither our compassion nor our devotion to our country, it measures everything in short, except that which makes life worthwhile".
That said, they are certainly a very worthwhile measure of economic progress, even if these days, there is a growing consensus that they are not the be-all and end-all.
He noted that background checks might have a bigger effect on other forms of gun violence, like individual homicides and suicides, and argued that even incremental progress is worthwhile if it saves a few lives.
But because of what the book tells us about artistic process -- and artistic progress -- it is worthwhile for all.
Enemy air resistance remained light and worthwhile ground targets few as the campaign progressed but, on 24 October, Eaton led an attack against German shipping off the Yugoslav coast that left a merchant ship and two barges on fire.
The development of an adjunctive clinical monitoring tool to allow clinicians to track progress of their patients would be worthwhile.
