It has put out feelers for negotiations with the ruling party, which South Africa is keen to broker, but little progress has been made.
"But, HMRC has made little progress in other areas, " she added, saying the department needed to "get a grip".
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Across the European Union, there is broad agreement that the 15 member states need to co-operate in preparing for a chemical or biological attack, but little progress has been made.
When fiscal cliff negotiations began two weeks ago, there were encouraging signs that lawmakers may be willing to compromise, but little concrete progress has been made.
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But there is one category in which YouTube has made little progress.
But after an initial bounce in 2009, there has been little progress since.
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But, to the annoyance of its neighbours, it has made little progress in preventing the fires or prosecuting those responsible for them.
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But on the crucial issues of drugs and crime, he has made little progress.
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' Well, the fact is, there has been some progress, but it's been far too little.
But there will be some disappointment at quite how little progress the country has to report when officials from its finance ministry travel to Paris later this month.
Health care has the opposite problem -- bipartisan agreement in principle on the broad framework but little evidence of progress on paper.
Progress has been slow but, in contrast with Iraq, the security outlook has improved a little.
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