This paper proves that a simplified Armijo-type line search can ensure the global con
vergences of the Fletcher-Reeves method and the Polak-Ribiére-Polyak method for un
constrained optimization. Although it seems not possible to verify that the PRP method
using the generalized Armijo line search converges globally for generally problems, it can
be shown that in this case the PRP method always solves uniformly convex problems.