progressive politician

collocation in English

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progressive
adjective
uk
/prəˈɡres.ɪv/us
/prəˈɡres.ɪv/
developing or ...
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politician
noun[C]
uk
/ˌpɒl.ɪˈtɪʃ.ən/us
/ˌpɑː.ləˈtɪʃ.ən/
a member of a government or ...
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(Definition ofprogressiveandpoliticianfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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In his community, he was known to be a fiscally conservative and sociallyprogressivepolitician.
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Dern was aprogressivepoliticianwho fought for tax reform, public education, and social welfare.
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Progressive politicians like others were unwilling to grant discretion and authority to agencies unless agencies could demonstrate organizational capacities they historically had not possessed.
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Left liberals and socialists as well as communists have referred to him and quoted his apothegms regarding him as the ideal unselfish and consequentprogressivepolitician.
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Martineau earned the reputation of fairness, integrity, and as aprogressivepolitician.
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But there are, behind the progressive politicians, reactionary forces of which we bear comparatively little.
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He is a more than noted chronicler of the achievements of progressive politicians of a previous time.
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And progressive politicians in their turn fear to ask them to do so.
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I am a politician who likes to look forwards rather than backwards—as progressive politicians, that is what we should do—but conditions for sport have become worse.
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He proposed instead a transversalist policy, seeking the support of progressive politicians regardless of their party.
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