Cope looked for, and thought he found, patterns of linear progression in the fossil record.

This division, however, does not represent a strictly linear progression.

Note that states do not have to follow a linear progression and very complex transitions are possible.

The linear progression of events is imposed by the observer.

The game follows a linear progression of battles in which, when one is cleared, the next begins.

No one requires a linear progression in this day and age, or even a middle, beginning or end.

Modern architects carried forward the 19th-century view of history as a linear progression.

In games with linear progression, levels are areas of a larger world.

"You can't assume a linear progression," said one senior American official.

The conventional planning process is a linear progression of activities.