President Obama says crews have made progress in cleaning up the spill, but the job is not done.

VOA: special.2011.04.23

"You have had a decade or more in Africa of very slow economic progress in the nineties.

VOA: special.2010.04.26

But insurgent attacks have increased and progress has been slower than expected in the south.

VOA: special.2010.06.26

From a global viewpoint [it's not only Cambodia a lot of countries have not made significant progress in terms of maternal deaths,".

VOA: standard.2009.11.10

The United States has also shared in those sacrifices, but we are proud of the progress that the Iraqi people have made.

VOA: standard.2009.04.25

"And so in some respects, in different areas, Georgia and Ukraine have made progress in these regards.

VOA: standard.2009.09.04

The EU and Turkey started membership negotiations in 2005, but they have made little progress since, while France and Germany have expressed opposition to Turkey's bid.

VOA: standard.2009.10.15

"The North as you know has been engaged in all sort of behavior. There have been ups and downs in that entire progress, the six-party talks.

VOA: standard.2009.04.14

"We recognize that the journey from London to Kabul is measured in more than miles, it is measured in the progress that you have made in delivering on the London commitment."

VOA: standard.2010.07.20

House Democrats have made some progress in recent days in bridging differences between liberal lawmakers focused on covering the uninsured and more conservative party members concerned about the cost of the reform effort.

VOA: standard.2009.07.31

"These are dangerous tasks." "There are still those with bombs and bullets who will try to stop Iraq's progress, and the hard truth is we have not seen the end of American sacrifice in Iraq."

VOA: standard.2010.08.02

Addressing students from several Washington area schools as well as dignitaries such as African-American activist and social educator Dorothy Height, the Obamas referred to the progress women in America have made over the decades in securing their rights.

VOA: standard.2010.03.08

"So far,we have had a constructive conversation and my hope is that by the time the chairman and I meet on Wednesday that we have made sufficient progress and we can start actually seeing a structure that would be in place."

VOA: standard.2010.06.14

"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

"When you really look deeper at what the AU is doing and what is happening at the regional economic community level, though the progress has not been what we might have expected a number of years ago, it has changed, and it is a work in progress, and next year this time we might be talking about the next summit within a very different context if we are looking at the political leadership of the day,".

VOA: standard.2009.07.02