progressive policy

collocation in English

meaningsofprogressiveandpolicy

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progressive
adjective
uk
/prəˈɡres.ɪv/us
/prəˈɡres.ɪv/
developing or ...
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policy
noun[C]
uk
/ˈpɒl.ə.si/us
/ˈpɑː.lə.si/
a set of ideas or a plan of what to do in particular situations that has been agreed to officially by a group of people, a business organization, a government, or a ...
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(Definition ofprogressiveandpolicyfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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In the absence ofprogressivepolicychange local farming communities, who have been the historical producers of the fragrant wood, will continue to be denied their rightful inheritance.
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Is aprogressivepolicybeing carried out, in providing better accommodation for troops?
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The policy also reverses 50 years ofprogressivepolicywith young people.
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Our building and recruitment figures are very strikingly in support of aprogressivepolicyin this matter.
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It belongs to a county where aprogressivepolicyhas been pursued as regards small holdings.
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Even towards the close of his speech, we had a further and hopeful sign in his emphatic endorsement of aprogressivepolicyof town planning.
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They also emphasised, quite rightly, that we must concentrate our attention on aprogressivepolicyfor civil aviation.
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I do not think that is aprogressivepolicy.
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He would support and plead for an imaginative andprogressivepolicyof the kind we are advocating as suitable to this country today.
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What appears to be the second best may in the long run prove to be the moreprogressivepolicy.
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There can be no objection to aprogressivepolicyof that kind.
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We are entitled to think that healthy, beneficial results will accrue, as they have in other industries where aprogressivepolicyhas been adopted.
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However, it is a much moreprogressivepolicy.
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He has failed to carry out aprogressivepolicyfor the pensioners during the three years he has been in office.
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It is also an efficient company following aprogressivepolicy.
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He has made the natural mistakes which belong to the development of any new and powerfully controlledprogressivepolicy, and those mistakes have been forgiven.
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It would be aprogressivepolicyto abolish tolls on some roads.
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This makes it difficult to achieve a co-ordinated,progressivepolicydesigned to curb energy demand effectively.
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Could anything be more ludicrous than to have, on the one hand, aprogressivepolicyand, on the other, a restrictive policy?
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It is a necessary part of a constructive andprogressivepolicyand can well be associated with the deterrent effect of prison life.
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