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The agents in charge were under immense pressure to make headway in the case.

There are also few, if any, global challenges on which meaningful headway can be made without robust U.S.-Chinese ties.

He loved to talk tough about crime and illegal immigration, but managed to make little headway curbing either.

Joyce had made even less headway with Ulysses, a work he had been planning since 1906.

McCain and Graham also had a long meeting with Burns Tuesday, but McCain declined to say whether Burns was making any headway.

The conception of the relation of this institution with them as co-operative makes headway slowly.

In the later half of the campaign of 1806 he hopelessly failed to make any headway against the Russians east of the Vistula.

Only by Smith's instinctive sense of direction did we make any headway toward the mouth of Sage Creek.

This pernicious practice has unfortunately obtained much headway in the United States and in Germany.

Jem, the driver of the roadster, crashed through the bushes just as the Comet was getting under its own headway.