"When we praise what the Palestinians do on security, it is meant to send a signal that progress is underway, and it is progress toward a two-state solution.

VOA: standard.2009.11.02

But do these indicators capture all facets of progress?

VOA: standard.2009.09.14

A report is due in June that is expected to show what progress has been made toward saving the lives of mothers, babies and children who do not need to die.

VOA: standard.2010.05.11

What we've done is refocused. We are refocused on 'why are we there?' And we've rearticulated our core objectives and our core interests in a more defined strategy for how do we actually turn the tide and begin to make progress.

VOA: standard.2009.03.27

"If we get to the summer of 2011 and people do not feel that we have made real progress, then I do not think there is an appetite here - or an appetite in the U.S.- to say, 'Well let us have another go and another go.'

VOA: standard.2010.08.04