7 sentences with 'progress'
Example sentences and phrases with the word progress and other words derived from it.
• « He explained to me in a matter-of-fact way what progress I could expect to make, and how long it would take to achieve it. »
• « Traditional history made a hard and fast distinction between Western civilisation as the locus of progress, and the rest of the world (usually called the "East", meaning simply "east", until textbooks began to change their terms in the 1980s) which invariably lagged behind. »
• « In the last sixty years historians have made enormous progress in dealing with various areas that had traditionally been neglected, especially in considering the histories of people who were not in power, including ordinary people in various eras, of women throughout most of history, and of slaves and servants. »
• « The Baltic lands were the last major region of Europe to remain pagan. Neither the Latin nor the Orthodox missionaries had made significant progress in converting the peoples of the region outside the border region between the Rus' lands and the Baltic Sea. »
• « To this day, the period of Mongol rule is often taught in Russia as the period of the 'Tatar yoke', when any hope of progress for Russia was suspended for centuries while the rest of Europe advanced; while this may be a bit of an exaggeration, it still has a kernel of truth. »
• « The Renaissance lasted from around 1300 - 1500. It ended in the early 16th century in the sense that its centre in northern Italy declined in economic importance and the pace of change and progress in the arts and learning slowed, but in a very real sense the Renaissance never really ended - its innovations and advances had already spread across much of Europe, and although Italy itself lost its prominence, patterns that began in Italy continued elsewhere. »