11.   For the first couple innings, progress against him meant a little contact, which Brian Jordan and Ryan Klesko supplied with back-to-back outs to right field.

12.   For two years, after all, Washington has been making substantial progress against the deficit without such an amendment.

13.   Have we made significant progress against cancer?

14.   Ironically, the progress against oil spills may make the country less prepared for the next Exxon Valdez-scale disaster.

15.   Last month, the government also announced the formation of a commission to track government progress against paramilitary groups.

16.   Moreover, the introduction of adenocarcinoma has blunted the progress against lung cancer in recent years, slowing the decline of deaths from the disease.

17.   Nevertheless, he said, anti-Taliban tribes in the south are making progress against the Taliban with a combination of and attacks and negotiations.

18.   Officials say they are still making progress against coca growing, but it has ominously slowed.

19.   Of course, progress against poverty cannot be measured solely by the number of federal dollars spent.

20.   Or even make some progress against them?