David Petraeus, the top U.S. commander in the country -- both of whom will brief the U.S. Congress this week on the state of progress in Iraq.
Sanctions should roll back, with Israel and Arab state endorsements, if Iran makes tangible progress in talks.
Although the State Department has noted Libya's progress in ending support for terrorism, officials said Libya will not be removed from the list until some remaining concerns are addressed, including Libya's suspected involvement in a plot to assassinate Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah.
In these meetings, he discussed the current state of transition to Afghan lead and our progress towards meeting the objectives agreed to at the NATO Summit in Chicago earlier this year.
Recently folks from the University of California, Riverside announced that they had made progress in creating an ultraviolet solid state laser.
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But even putting that to one side, the rising indebtedness of the state more than offsets any progress by the private sector in reducing debts.
Walmart updated its progress towards waste reduction goals in the state with an announcement that 80 percent of waste generated in the state is recycled, reused or otherwise diverted from area landfills.
Now, the secretary of state said that the troops coming out depended on political progress in Iraq, and on the police forces on Iraq being able to take control of the situation there.
In 2000, for instance, a state agency called the Oregon Progress Board did its own survey on hunger.
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The new system would have incorporated student progress on state tests and replaced a simple system in place for decades that rated the vast majority of teachers satisfactory.
She added that Ed Balls, Secretary of State at the DCSF, had instructed Lord Laming to report on progress in implementing safeguarding arrangements for children in England in light of the Baby P case.
The leader of Bahrain's main opposition party has called on the UK government to act as a mediator with the ruling al-Khalifa family if progress towards democracy remains stalled in the troubled Gulf state.
"Considering that over a third of America's transit riders use the systems most heavily damaged by Hurricane Sandy, it is imperative that we continue this rapid progress to restore these systems in the tri-state region, " Federal Transit Administration head Peter Rogoff said.
"The notion of pan-Asian community is still a work in progress, " said Dennis Hayashi, director of the state Department of Fair Employment and Housing, who previously served in the Clinton administration.
The Commission report noted Croatian progress in areas such as anti-trust, mergers and state aid, including privatisation of shipyards.
By bringing together Federal, State, and local governments and private industry partners, we have made great progress in securing cyberspace for business, education, entertainment, and civic life.
With her career as a top lawyer, a judge and state governor she would seem to have removed most obstacles to women's progress in a previously male-run world.
Under the deal, at least 20% of a teacher's overall score would in many cases be based on how much progress students make on a state standardized exam.
By establishing full reciprocity as the prerequisite basis for a two-state "solution" President Obama might just be able to make useful progress toward peace in the Middle East.
But while past Supreme Court rulings rejected challenges to Section 5, in a 2009 decision the justices signaled that the formula for selecting jurisdictions covered by Section 5, last updated with the 1972 election results, may not reflect subsequent progress in race relations and therefore may become an unconstitutional burden on state prerogatives to decide their own ballot regulations.
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, visiting Afghanistan with her British counterpart, said Thursday that she sees progress in the troubled nation despite the Taliban militia's threat to security.
While a large part of the EU's reluctance to admit Turkey relates to slow progress in the area of human rights, there are also significant concerns about the state of the economy.
The Eurozone leaders have made no progress in facing up the real problem: either they must form a true nation state union that eliminates the nation sovereignty of the Eurozone by merging all power into one central government resulting in the elimination of national governments or they must disband the Euro.
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Cameroon's progress as a state has been hampered by a level of corruption that is among the highest in the world.
But, of course, the progress of approving trans-border pipelines has been housed, if you will, in the State Department for quite a long time under administrations that have been both Democratic and Republican because of the international nature of those pipelines, the fact that they cross international borders.
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