The ship made slow progress against the strong wind.

The National Transitional Government of Liberia made slow progress in restoring administration throughout the country.

Slow but steady progress had been made in the universalization of the IAEA additional protocol.

Progress has been too slow

Here also progress is slow.

I am encouraged by the slow, but steady, progress being made in the dialogue between Armenia and Azerbaijan.

As we can see, the progress made by my country is real, even if its pace is still slow too slow, given the acute needs and problems that exist.

In the Commonwealth, 11 of our 53 members have already recorded significant progress on the MDGs, but 31 have made slow progress, and some are actually going backwards.

While progress has been made over the past decade in getting more children into school, the pace remains far too slow.

Progress in reforming the forestry sector has been slow.

The progress made in Benin had been slow, because socio cultural considerations had prevented elected representatives from fully accepting the concept of gender equality.

In Africa, progress in achieving Millennium Development Goals remains painfully slow.

Nevertheless, progress in a number of other areas has been slow.

In the area of social and economic rights, progress remains slow.

Until the end of the reporting period, however, progress was extremely slow.

Progress in strengthening financing for sustainable forest management has been both slow and inadequate.

This implies that further progress in trade liberalization will be slow. But slow progress is a far less important challenge to growth prospects than the debt overhang in developed economies, or infrastructure and educational deficiencies in many developing economies.

It is now widely believed that this lack of effective coordination is partly responsible for the slow progress made in reviving the economy and achieving durable peace and security in Liberia.

However, every women's NGO had a fundamentalist counterpart, which meant that progress was slow and difficult.

While some of the recommendations are being acted upon, progress on others appears limited or slow.

(f) Constraints faced by civil society organizations, including the slow progress in the registration of non governmental organizations

Progress has also been slow in dealing with unemployment, economic development and raising the living standards of minorities.

Five years later, we must acknowledge that the pace of progress towards meeting those goals is too slow.

The slow progress in disbursing funds pledged under the Interim Cooperation Framework remains a major source of concern.

You've made progress.

Thirdly, some of the provinces that are relatively slow in progress may face greater risks if they seek acceleration in progress in the second half of the year.

And the answer is that not only do you slow down technological progress, you can actually throw it into reverse.

Benchmarks and indicators Progress has been slow. About one third of the countries did not report on benchmarks and indicators.

Have we made progress?

We have made progress.

However, overall progress in this area has been slow and greater interest needs to be generated with other United Nations agencies.

Great progress has been made.

Some progress has been made.

Much progress has been made.

Progress has certainly been made.

progress made, challenges and opportunities

Both sides frequently reaffirmed their commitment to coordinate the implementation of the Israeli disengagement plan, though progress remained slow until April 2005.

Poverty, including massive youth unemployment, and public discontent over slow progress made by the Government in the fight against corruption and the improvement of management of State revenues are issues that urgently need to be addressed in order to sustain stability.

8. Notes with concern that progress in the implementation of the recommendations in the report of the Secretary General remains slow and uneven

Overall, the pace of progress in electoral politics was slow only 13 per cent of the deputies in the national Parliament were women.

Regarding the tsunami and Nias disaster, delegations expressed concern at the slow progress of school reconstruction and rehabilitation in Aceh and North Sumatra.

Despite the relatively slow progress in the negotiation of the draft comprehensive convention, what has been achieved so far should not be underestimated.

He made remarkable progress in English.

But further progress must be made.

They expressed their concern at the slow pace of progress towards nuclear disarmament, which constitutes their primary disarmament objective and remains their highest priority.