For Democrats in the House and Senate and across America, this is the Congress of hope, change and progress.
So I've spent some time thinking about how I could best advance the cause of change and progress that we so desperately need.
"I think Saudi women really have a great opportunity and a window for change and progress that we really need to take advantage of, " she said.
Under that bargain, the poor countries were to have the Millennium Development Goals reaffirmed, along with promises of more aid and debt relief, a pledge to tackle climate change and progress on disarmament.
"It is a language for figuring out what gets in the way of change and progress, " says Todd Pierce, former CIO of biotechnology company Genentech, who says it helped his management team resolve core issues in a matter of hours.
His insight helped inspire Lawrence Lessig's Harvard-based anti-corruption campaign ( Rootstrikers) and two groundbreaking progressive grass-root organizations ( Demand Progress and the Progressive Change Campaign Committee).
This new UNESCO-UNU book underlines the critical role that indigenous peoples and local communities can play in ongoing international efforts to monitor the progress of global climate change impacts and to develop capacities to respond.
General PETER PACE (Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff): We need to give ourselves a good honest scrub about what is working and what is not working, what are the impediments to progress and what should we change about the way we're doing it to ensure that we get to the objective that we've set for ourselves.
Demand for infrastructure is set to increase, fuelled by population growth, technological progress, climate change and congestion.
And while some actions may not seem all that significant, when you take any action that serves your greatest good, it sends a message to your sub-conscious that you are still in the game, and that change is still in progress (however slowly).
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Joseph Romm, a highly-respected clean-energy and climate-change advocate at the Center for American Progress, pulled the first punch, then the second, a third and about a dozen more on his blog, Climate Progress.
Minister Environment and Sustainable Development outlined the progress made by the Welsh Government in addressing climate change and announced that he will be reporting in full in March 2012.
We are steadily making progress and making real change in moving this country forward.
This progress did not come easily and we know that progress on this particular aspect of climate change negotiations is not enough.
Progress will be uneven, and change will come differently to different countries.
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Actual plan implementation is delegated to managers with the boss periodically meeting to monitor progress and modify the plan as circumstances change.
It is also more efficient for the doctor who already knows the patient to order the fever work-up, talk to the family, or assess progress and the potential need for a change in the treatment.
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We are steadily making progress, and moving forward and making real change.
And clearly, whatever fear of the Volt that runs rampant among some segment of climate-change deniers, government-bailout haters and whomever else fears the progress of this type of vehicle gets ramped up to new levels whenever anything resembling good news about the Volt emerges.
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Slowly but surely, we are making progress and moving this country forward, making real change.
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But this also impacts the steps that we're taking to wean ourselves off our dependence on foreign oil, which means progress as it relates to greenhouse gases and climate change.
For three and a half years, we have been moving forward, we have been making good progress, and we are beginning to see that change that we all can believe in.
"But the momentum of change needs to continue in order to ensure sustainable improvements, and the council is making progress in delivering improvements in most of its priorities, " Mr Owen continued.
They added that while progress has been made, more negotiations are needed and the deal could change slightly.
And as continue to make progress, we don't see any need to change the process.
There is some progress, there is the occasional setback, and very often there is no change at all.
We look forward to your feedback and sharing our progress with you openly as many of the technical details will likely change before we launch.
Ms Davidson stated that "real progress" has been made to combat climate change "thanks to the committee" and she has accepted most of the recommendations in the report.
He welcomed the speech, he said, because it created two conditions for progress which he, too, regarded as indispensable: a change of Palestinian leadership and an end to terror.
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