made headway (verb) advance: move something forward, often quickly
Detalii: advance means 'steady progress' and stresses effective assisting in hastening a process or bringing about a desired end, while advancement suggests progression that is bigger, more, or beyond normal
Sinonime: adamant, adamantine,
austere, bullheaded, changeless, chiseled, dead set, definite,
determined,
exact,
firm,
fixed,
hard, hard-line,
harsh, incompliant, inelastic,
inexorable,
inflexible,
intransigent, invariable, locked in,
obdurate,
rigorous,
set, set in stone, single-minded,
solid,
static,
stern, strait-laced,
stringent, tough nut to crack, unalterable, unbending,
unbreakable,
unchanging,
uncompromising, undeviating, unmoving, unpermissive,
unrelenting,
unyieldingAntonime: bending,
flexible,
lenient, limber,
pliable, pliant,
soft,
yielding