His aides say there will be progress on these bigger reforms before December.
In each case, this would amount to less than total victory for Lula, but it would be progress, of a sort.
But as Dr Esparza points out, even failure, at this early stage, would be progress of a sort, as well as a valuable lesson for future efforts.
Speaking to reporters after the briefing, the president said there seemed to be progress but it was too soon to be optimistic about a solution to the spill.
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He asked about the debt of African countries in relation to writing off the debt of Iraq and whether there would be progress on this at he G8 summit.
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Under most circumstances, we'd label its flagship xPC as vaporware, but there does seem to be progress, which gives us some hope that the modular computer solution will finally be available sometime this year.
"There has to be progress on the political dialogue, there has to be progress on terrorism and there has to be progress on trade and co-operation and the three have to be linked, " Mr Patten said for his part.
And while we obviously believe that there needs to be progress in the Middle East peace process, there are many other important problems to address in the region to -- for the governments in the region to answer the legitimate grievances of the people that they represent.
But, again, we've got -- we have political progress that has to be made, continued security progress that has to be made.
Thus, a country failing on one or possibly even two counts, but reported to be making good progress, could be allowed in.
It would thus be real progress if the Karen ceasefire led to a durable peace.
But Marchand assisted on Bergeron's series-winning goal and Nash seems to be making progress.
Moreover, Apple seems to be making progress after decades as a bit player inside businesses.
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But there will be measurable progress, growth at the industry level, sooner than that.
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Perhaps he thinks there will be no progress so he's afraid of that report.
If they can't, nothing will be done, no progress will be made, and that's fine and dandy.
There seems to be room to fudge this requirement, if serious deliberations can be said to be in progress.
Siskind believes the Neufeld memo would need to be revoked for real progress to be made in this area.
Golborne said the second pass would be slower progress than the first pass.
Should there be no progress, Mr Arafat is likely to toy with a few unilateral acts of his own.
After some hiccups, his bid for reconciliation with Transdniestria and its veteran strongman, Igor Smirnov, seems to be making progress.
"The ILO constituency is pretty aware and will not be satisfied with something that doesn't appear to be real progress, " he said.
It's tough making predictions - if we can improve on our third in last year's Six Nations it would be tangible progress.
As it has done many times before, Chinese banking has become bogged down in a quagmire just when it seemed to be making progress.
Now, the broader economy seems to be showing progress toward recovery.
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