social progress
collocation in Englishmeaningsofsocialandprogress
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social
adjective
uk/ˈsəʊ.ʃəl/us/ˈsoʊ.ʃəl/
relating to activities in which you meet and spend time with other people and that happen during the time when you are ...
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progress
noun[U]
uk/ˈprəʊ.ɡres/us/ˈprɑː.ɡres/
movement to an improved or more developed state, or to a ...
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(Definition ofsocialandprogressfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Non-concomitant civic and economic developments are shown to have produced bothsocialprogressand inequality.
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Once again, diminution of physical suffering is treated as a measure ofsocialprogress.
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The loss of mine, machinery, and manpower in colliery explosions released a 'runaway train ' ofsocialprogress.
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He is a staunch defender of the past, and yet also a firm advocate ofsocialprogress.
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They are hamperingsocialprogress.
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They often stoppedsocialprogress.
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There cannot besocialprogresswithout economic growth, but the economy cannot be competitive withoutsocialprogress.
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A war is seldom an instrument ofsocialprogress, thoughsocialprogressmay arise even from wars.
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She wrote about oppressive domesticity during an era that advocatedsocialprogress, yet largely refused to grant women the privileges of this progress.
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First, social science, emerging in the age of advances in the natural sciences, was tied closely to the idea ofsocialprogress.
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One approach to the analysis of the development of factory music could be to link popular music and its broadcasting withsocialprogress.
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They posited an individual relationship with land, which they treated as a commodity that, properly husbanded, would guarantee material andsocialprogress.
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Therefore, there was no ready-made universal economic or political formula that could be imposed on the organic society to ensuresocialprogress.
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That is howsocialprogressis made.
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It believes that this issocialprogress.
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I cannot believe that issocialprogress.
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This did not just relate to thesocialprogressclause.
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Genuinesocialprogresscan only be achieved by economic growth.
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Where is the much-promisedsocialprogressin all that?
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Of course,socialprogressdepends on economic growth.
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Without those things, economic andsocialprogresswill be illusory.
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This cry is used to halt allsocialprogress.
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It is a necessary condition for economic andsocialprogress.
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Their objective is to support national liberation andsocialprogress.
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Economic growth andsocialprogresshave been stalled.
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