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no progress vs is no progress

Both "no progress" and "is no progress" are not correct constructions in English. The correct form is simply "no progress." Adding "is" before "no progress" is grammatically incorrect.

Last updated: March 22, 2024 • 1844 views

no progress

This phrase is correct and commonly used in English.

Use "no progress" to indicate that there has been no advancement or improvement in a situation or process.

Examples:

  • There has been no progress in the negotiations.
  • Despite our efforts, there is no progress in solving the issue.
  • So far there has been no progress at all.
  • Since then, however, there has been no progress.
  • Unfortunately, last year saw retrogression and no progress.
  • We have made no progress whatsoever with interoperability.
  • If no progress is made on taxation, permit or quota trading schemes will be the only Community instruments available.
  • The Commission should make the Hanoi authorities understand that if there is no progress in this specific area then cooperation aid will be suspended immediately.
  • On the Community Patent, which Mr Prodi mentioned - no progress.
  • I am afraid there has been no progress on practical transposition in our Member States.
  • We waited throughout the first few months of 1997 but there was no progress.
  • They've searched the house repeatedly, roadblocks, door-to-doors, no progress.
  • Still no progress, your honor,
  • I'm afraid the latest results show she's made no progress whatsoever.
  • By being reserved and not taking a step forward, there'll be no progress in the relationship.
  • Nevertheless, in structural terms no progress towards meeting the MTO is expected during the 2011-2012 period, during which growth assumptions are deemed favourable.
  • Turkey is making little or no progress with regard to human rights, whatever claims the Turkish Government may make.
  • Finally, but very importantly, Council has made no progress on postponing rest periods for drivers on occasional international services (12 day rule).
  • However, no progress has been noted in the audiovisual field since our last report.
  • It is certainly disappointing that there was no progress whatsoever on adoption of a procedure making amendment of the policy part of the Constitution possible.
  • Unfortunately, the informal meeting of ECOFIN had to announce, yet again, that no progress had been made in this area.
  • On the essential issues of tax and social affairs, there is no progress.

is no progress

This phrase is not a correct construction in English.

  • There is no progress without compromise.
  • And we forget there is no progress without change.
  • In this area, there is no progress or revolutionary change.
  • There is no progress without water.
  • But then I hear people saying, There is no progress in Africa.
  • The Commission should make the Hanoi authorities understand that if there is no progress in this specific area then cooperation aid will be suspended immediately.
  • On the essential issues of tax and social affairs, there is no progress.
  • Later, the report says that there is no progress towards normalisation of relations with Cyprus.
  • Why should we reward Castro when there is no progress on human rights?
  • I voted in favour of this report, but I did so only because it very specifically makes clear that there is no progress in the accession negotiations with Turkey.
  • Without rules there is no freedom, and without freedom there is no progress and no dignity of life.
  • Without civilisation, there is no progress, and without human rights, there is no civilisation.
  • Whilst we take these measures, there is no progress on the pressure that some of us in Parliament have been trying to exert on the Council in relation to the need for sanctions - sanctions, of course, which Aung San Suu Kyi has consistently called for.
  • whereas the Commission gave an undertaking that at the beginning of 2006 it would reassess, with the Member States, human rights in Tunisia and decide whether additional measures should be taken if there is no progress,
  • I would remind you that the Council has said that there will be no progress on economic and trade issues if there is no progress on the issues we are discussing; consequently, there is a de facto link between the two.
  • If there is no progress in this area, it is, in the view of myself and of the Group of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe, quite impossible to imagine any kind of association agreement with Iran.
  • Mr Hudghton, diversity and unity: rest assured, from the point of view of diversity there is no progress to be made!
  • Obviously a lot of people, including in this Chamber, deliberately talk of progress in Turkey, knowing that, to all intents and purposes, there is no progress or that, in certain sectors, things have got worse.
  • Why is no progress being made with the Ionian Way and why does it still amount to little more than a grandiose plan?
  • Something else that grieves me about this proposal is that no progress is being made in the areas of emissions into the soil and competency.

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