progressive movement
collocation in Englishmeaningsofprogressiveandmovement
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progressive
adjective
uk/prəˈɡres.ɪv/us/prəˈɡres.ɪv/
developing or ...
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movement
noun
uk/ˈmuːv.mənt/us/ˈmuːv.mənt/
a change ...
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(Definition ofprogressiveandmovementfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Naturally, one wants one's own country to be in the forefront of a greatprogressivemovement.
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We shall meet with the same opposition as that which the district auditor offers to anyprogressivemovement.
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Not for the self-employed theprogressivemovementto a situation that may or may not be desirable.
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Because it causes suspicion, distrust and demoralisation in the organised ranks of theprogressivemovement, a very great danger.
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We are not only not content with making a retrogressive movement, but we make a bold demand for aprogressivemovement.
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The former is the drift of a good many people who would like to link themselves to what may be called theprogressivemovement.
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They are doing something for theprogressivemovementthroughout the world: in fact, they are contributing something to the liberal progress of the human race.
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In that world scene there is aprogressivemovementtowards a greater diversity of both institutions and styles of higher education.
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Its members consider liberalism as aprogressivemovementsupporting individual freedom, justice and human rights.
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As he became more conservative, his family followed theprogressivemovementof the era.
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This is aprogressivemovementdisorder that begins with between 10 and 14 weeks of age.
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This is a paper by and for the green andprogressivemovement.
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I don't know if the newprogressivemovementmatters, or if we're going to succeed.
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Whatever terror has been used has always been the means of setting back theprogressivemovementand giving reactionaries the opportunity of using new reactionary powers.
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The people of the time saw surgery as aprogressivemovementand wanted to be a part of it.
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She claimed that even more attended than they expected, and it was an important moment in theprogressivemovement.
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Many methods are used to provide theprogressivemovementthrough the coil and both vertical and horizontal systems are used.
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Brandeis, a leader of theprogressivemovementprior to his judicial appointment offered a broad framing of the avoidance doctrine.
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There is still time to enhance it and, in doing so, to be far more receptive to the proposals made by many associations, trade unions and theprogressivemovement.
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Fuse's mission is to build a bigger and strongerprogressivemovement, increase leadership and accountability in politics, and improve peoples' lives.
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But theprogressivemovementwas strongest at the state level, and, so the new party had fielded candidates for governor and state legislature.
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It is a democratic socialist organization that supports numerous progressive, radical causes in an effort to help build a broad-based, multi-tendencyprogressivemovement.
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The groups brought together in aprogressivemovementintelligent, literate people who had not found rewarding political action in leftwing parties.
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Layering different sounds on top of each other and slowly bringing them in and out of the mix is a key idea behind theprogressivemovement.
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Garrison's proposals not only outraged the localistic politicians of both parties, they also offended a strongly held belief shared by the liberal wing of theprogressivemovement.
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