Both men, anxious to preserve what progress had been made, indicated their willingness to try again.
At the Paris airshow on Monday the aviation industry heard what progress had been made.
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Progress had been blocked by French reluctance to place French factories in Airbus hands.
Several leaders, including the French president, said that progress had been made in handling the eurozone crisis.
David Thorburn, chief executive of the UK bank, told BBC Scotland that good progress had been made.
Amanda Eden, of the charity Diabetes UK, agreed little progress had been made in tackling the problem.
Despite its overall performance rating, the report said that progress had been made in most other priority areas.
More of the same occurred Friday, including U.S. House Speaker Boehner saying little progress had been made in negotiations.
The problems of severe poverty, economic inequity, and drug cartels remained, but significant progress had been made.
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They grown sceptical of the peace process with the guerrillas as little progress had been made since talks began last January.
It said progress had been made to help the vulnerable, but more could have been done for those in financial difficulty.
The Lord Chief Justice said strong progress had been made on his first programme of action on sentencing published last year.
The minister said that while much progress had been made towards eliminating a drink-drive culture, more work needed to be done.
But for just as long, progress had been prevented at every turn by the special interests and their allies in Washington.
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Both Peter Robinson and Martin McGuinness said some progress had been made but an overall package had still not been agreed.
The company said progress had been made during the day and engineers would work as late as possible on the remaining faults.
John Griffiths said that positive progress had been made and that there was a commitment to reviewing this scheme following assembly elections.
But that progress had been put on hold by the crisis in the eurozone and the growing pessimism about the global recovery.
The IMB recognised some progress had been made at the jail near Banstead, but was concerned the activity would be short-lived, it added.
France's Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius told the meeting impressive progress had been made but that this did not mean the danger was over.
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He also called for a national unit to be set up to make a "robust report" into how much progress had been made.
Harvey said progress had been made in some portions of the Waldo Canyon Fire, and firefighters were taking an aggressive stance against hot spots.
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Sinfin Community School was placed into special measures by Ofsted in February and a follow-up report last month said inadequate progress had been made.
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The university admitted that its progress had been "less than anticipated".
Government sources said good progress had been made and Mr Brown would meet the first and deputy first ministers in Downing Street again on Tuesday.
Nick Hardwick, Chief Inspector of Prisons, said the prison was "in many ways, the sum of its three disparate parts" and acknowledged progress had been "inconsistent".
His comments were well received after the leaders of both parties in the Senate said on Tuesday that little progress had been made in the negotiations.
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In a report last month the Independent Monitoring Board (IMB) of the Global Polio Eradication Initiative said significant progress had been made in Pakistan in 2012.
Professor Mike Richards, the government's cancer tsar, said progress had been made in developing specialist palliative care services - but acknowledged more needed to be done.
In a statement, he said progress had been made on cutting sales of alcohol to under-18s and it was the government's intention to eliminate the problem altogether.
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