The question is, can governments do anything to hurry things along?

He hurried things along, but it didn't go quickly enough.

"If she doesn't get on with it, I may hurry things a bit."

If you hurry things, you always get left in the end.

Now, try a little sleep to hurry things along.

We'll have to hurry things along so we can get started on our hunt.

It seemed to take hours, but there was no way to hurry things.

To hurry things along, the man higher up supplied a flash of his own.

I hope that the Commissioner will hurry things along in this respect.

We had it in mind the whole day that you'd have to hurry things.