A brief respite, she wondered, or the first sign of an actual improvement in her situation?

There is nowhere on earth where long term prospects show an actual steady and sustained improvement in the environment.

Henry smiles politely, thinking that with some people, Alzheimer's disease might be an actual improvement.

Some critics have said the problem is that the tests divert money away from actual educational improvements.

Each annual review now reports the actual improvements achieved together with the revised targets for the coming year.

Thus, the board ended the auction with very little actual improvement in the final bid.

While some revisions were made, little actual improvement followed.

Let us not pursue a defeatist strategy, but rather focus our efforts on actual improvement.

This was particularly painful, because after 2003, there was real hope among the people that actual improvements would follow.

These three steps are necessary in order to orchestrate actual improvements and demonstrate successful change.