It didn't feel as if they were on a highway or making discernible progress anywhere.

Meanwhile, months passed, with little discernible progress on the film project.

As weeks go by without discernible progress, hopes for a decent outcome get progressively harder to sustain.

There is indeed chaos, inertia, anger and utter lack of any discernible progress right now in budget talks.

These have made no discernible progress, in part because Washington waited until this summer to put its first serious negotiating proposal on the table.

But there was no discernible progress on any front, and diplomats throughout the United Nations grew increasingly impatient.

But after each session, United States officials said there was no discernible progress.

We will have to show discernible progress every day.

The program, called Title 1, was meant to zap the gap between rich and poor students but has achieved minimal discernible progress.

The last round of Start, meanwhile, made no discernible progress on the main topics at issue.