The Rooseveltian America was a haven of liberalism and progress and seemed to him to constitute the last best hope for civilization.

At Sounion there is a group of beautiful columns, the ruins of a temple to Poseidon, of particular interest at that time, as active reconstruction was in progress.

There was one further step in my religious progress.

It was Plummer, in fact, who coined the much quoted remark: `` Mr. Green indeed writes as if he had been present at the landing of the Saxons and had watched every step of their subsequent progress ''.

His steps were short and stiff, and, with his head thrown back, his progress was a supercilious strut.

In such a case, however, we would encourage the recipient country to get on with its programing task, supply it with substantial technical assistance in performing that task, and make it plain that an expansion or even a continuation of our assistance to the country's development was conditional upon programing progress being made.

What made these new location figures particularly impressive was the fact that although 1960 was a year of mild business recession throughout the nation, Rhode Island scored marked progress in new industry, new plants, and new jobs.

Sir Henry Sumner Maine, a hundred years before Communism was a force to be reckoned with, wrote his brilliant legal generalization, that `` the progress of society is from status to contract ''.

After every session, the check marks were totaled up and graphed, and in this way the supervisor's progress was charted.

While accounts of the progress of the tsunami came in from various points in the Pacific ( Midway reported it was covered with nine feet of water ), the Hawaiian station made its calculations and notified the military services and the police that the first big wave would arrive at Honolulu at 23:30 Greenwich time.

When her brother Winslow became a student at Brown University in 1874, she wrote him about a course in history he was taking under Professor Diman: `` What is Prof. Diman's definition of civilization, and take the world through, is its progress ever onward, or does it retrograde at times??

There was no display of either works in progress or of finished work.

The atmosphere was one of optimism, of confidence in human progress, and of a determination to rid the world of its ills.

Foner ( 2010 ) contrasts the abolitionists and anti-slavery Radical Republicans of the Northeast who saw slavery as a sin, with the conservative Republicans who thought it was bad because it hurt white people and blocked progress.

Carnegie believed the concentration of capital was essential for societal progress and should be encouraged.

This took place whilst Canova was in his thirteenth year ; and with Torretto he continued about two years, making in many respects considerable progress.

Great progress was made in the field of aviation during the 1920s and 1930s, such as Charles Lindbergh's solo transatlantic flight in 1927, and Charles Kingsford Smith's transpacific flight the following year.

Likewise, Joseph E. Stiglitz, speaking not only on China but East Asia in general, comments " The countries that have managed globalization ... such as those in East Asia, have, by and large, ensured that they reaped huge benefits ..." According to The Heritage Foundation, development in China was anticipated by Milton Friedman, who predicted that even a small progress towards economic liberalization would produce dramatic and positive effects.

After his mother ’ s early death, Ansgar was brought up in Corbie Abbey, and made rapid progress in his education.

Born at the Eyüp Palace, Constantinople ( Constantinople ), on 9 / 18 February 1830, Abdülaziz received an Ottoman education but was nevertheless an ardent admirer of the material progress that was made in the West.

It was begun in the late 19th century and redesigned while the construction was in progress to accommodate the extra offices needed due to the naval arms race with the German Empire.

Most people are familiar with Helen Keller, who was both blind and deaf, but there has been considerable progress since the publication of her work.

In Argentina, vectorial transmission has been interrupted in 13 of the 19 endemic provinces, and major progress toward this goal has also been made in both Paraguay and Bolivia.

His death, along with several advisers, in a suspicious plane crash in 1986 interrupted progress.

On the syndicated version, if time ran out with a game still in progress ( interrupted by what the host called the " tacky buzzer ," a loud horn ), each X or O on the board at that point was worth an additional $ 50 to the players, with each player guaranteed at least $ 100 in total winnings.

Any band progress would have been interrupted on October 15, 2001, when Eddie and his wife of 21 years, actress Valerie Bertinelli, separated ( though the couple would not file for divorce until December 8, 2005 ).

Ill-health again interrupted the progress of his works, chief among which was the vast Arthur in Avalon.

It was not an immediate constitutional priority however, especially after the Irish Home Rule Bill was defeated in the House of Commons, and by the time a Scottish home rule bill was first presented to parliament in 1913, its progress, along with that of the Irish Home Rule Act 1914, was interrupted by World War I and subsequently became overshadowed by the Easter Rising and Irish War of Independence, although the Scottish Office was relocated to St. Andrew's House in Edinburgh during the 1930s.

Rapid progress of Cetinje under the rule of the Crnojević dynasty was interrupted at the very end of the 15th century.

With considerable financial assistance from the Virginia Board of Public Works, the Virginia Central Railroad and a state-owned link through the Blue Ridge Mountains had been completed along this route as far as the upper reaches of the Shenandoah Valley when the War interrupted progress.

It may have taken so long because Ashmole's progress was interrupted by the Restoration of Charles II in 1660, when Ashmole's loyalty was richly rewarded with political offices.

He did make his debut in Melbourne's district competition until the age of 19, and his progress was interrupted by a posting as a schoolteacher to a country town.

Chamberlain said that since his last ( 2 May ) statement to the House on progress in Norway, British forces had successfully withdrawn from southern Norway ; Chamberlain began to make a case that actual Allied losses had been light and German losses disproportionate to any benefit they had gained, but was interrupted by Labour MPs pointing out that the reverse had come as a shock to the country and the world.

However, World War I interrupted his progress and he spent the next four years in France, in army intelligence.

His first tournament success came in 1938 when he won the Belgrade Chess Club championship ; however, World War II interrupted his chess progress for a time.

Its progress will be interrupted by work for other courses, meals, sleep, and other distractions.

With war imminent, the Rivers Board took over the Black Sluice and the South Forty-Foot Drain in 1939, and although progress was interrupted by the Second World War, a £ 374, 000 scheme to construct the Black Sluice pumping station and to widen of the drain from Boston to Donington Bridge was completed in 1946.

From here the slope continues in the same direction to the Greendale-Gosforth road, its progress only briefly interrupted by the few desultory rocks of Gray Crag.

However, injuries interrupted his progress.

His progress was interrupted again in 1970 when a back injury which required a spinal fusion of the first and second vertebrae sidelined him for the entire season and put his career in doubt.

Does this suggest that the Congo is fit for nationhood or that UN is making any progress whatever toward its goal of so making it??

progress, or lack of it, toward civil rights in the 50 states is reported in an impressive 689-page compilation issued last week by the United States Commission on Civil Rights.

But competent observers believe he is making progress, particularly toward what Sen. Jackson lists as the primary need -- `` a clearer understanding of where our vital national interests lie and what we must do to promote them ''.

As the South begins another school year, national and even world attention is directed at the region's slow progress toward racial equality in the public schools.

Then the enthusiasm and energy of all elements can be channeled to produce cumulative progress toward a common objective.

That meeting produced the `` spirit of Camp David '' -- a spirit, it later turned out, that masked a basic misunderstanding about progress toward a Berlin settlement.

The European Commission, in its 2002 country report, recognised Bulgaria as a functioning market economy, acknowledging the progress made by Prime Minister Ivan Kostov's government toward market-oriented reforms.

A bricklayer in Paoua, Central African Republic. In the 40 years since independence, the CAR has made slow progress toward economic development.

However, this strongly conflicts with the evidence for cosmological evolution mentioned earlier: the Universe has progressed from extremely different conditions at the Big Bang, and will continue to progress toward extremely different conditions, particularly under the rising influence of dark energy, apparently toward the Big Freeze or Big Rip.

According to Carl Mitcham, " the Christian mythology of progress toward transcendent salvation " created the conditions for modern ideas of scientific and technological progress.

The Institute promotes Engelbart's philosophy for boosting Collective IQ — the concept of dramatically improving how we can solve important problems together — using a strategic bootstrapping approach for accelerating our progress toward that goal.

As DSM-III chief architect Robert Spitzer and DSM-IV editor Michael First outlined in 2005, " little progress has been made toward understanding the pathophysiological processes and etiology of mental disorders.

The United States agreed to provide assistance to both Ethiopia and Eritrea, conditional on continued progress toward democracy and human rights.

While little progress was made toward gender equality during the Revolution, the activism of French feminists was bold and particularly significant in Paris.

Once again, 90th Light failed to make progress so Rommel called the Afrika Korps to abandon its planned sweep southward and instead join the effort to break through to the coast road by attacking east toward Ruweisat Ridge.

The last decades of the independent Commonwealth existence were characterized by intense reform movements and far-reaching progress in the areas of education, intellectual life, art, and especially toward the end of the period, evolution of the social and political system.

When things did not progress quickly toward that end, he put the team up for sale.

Labour statistics are an important tool for its member states to monitor their progress toward improving labour standards.

These are not identical, but one must exist in order to progress toward a goal.

The example of savages, almost all of whom have been found in this state, seems to confirm that the human race had been made to remain in it always ; that this state is the veritable youth of the world ; and that all the subsequent progress has been in appearance so many steps toward the perfection of the individual, and in fact toward the decay of the species.