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progressive

Something that is progressive has to do with progress. In politics, someone who is progressive wants to make things better through new laws and methods. It's a victory for feminism and progressive politics. A progressive tax is a tax that makes the rich pay a much higher amount of their money than the poor. The progressive aspect is made with a form of the verb "be" and a verb with an "-ing" at the end. The present progressive of "I go" is "I am going" and the past progressive of "I walk" is "I was walking". If a disease is progressive, it begins slowly and gets worse over time.

progressive

favoring or promoting reform (often by government action) favoring or promoting progress progressive schools gradually advancing in extent (of taxes) adjusted so that the rate increases as the amount of income increases advancing in severity progressive paralysis (of a card game or a dance) involving a series of sections for which the participants successively change place or relative position progressive euchre progressive tournaments a tense of verbs used in describing action that is on-going (= liberal) a person who favors a political philosophy of progress and reform and the protection of civil liberties

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Simple sentences

His policies were too progressive.
Mary returned home from Japan with many new and progressive ideas.

Movie subtitles

Very progressive, detective.
Everyone can see it's a progressive and good idea.
FREEDONIA NEEDS A NEW LEADER, A PROGRESSIVE, FEARLESS FIGHTER.
This belongs to a very progressive fellow.
It's now eight months since your government declared war eight months of progressive disaster for the enemies of the German Reich.
It's a progressive school.
Oh, it's a progressive school.
I never used to believe my mother's stories about Americans being the most progressive people.
I was fortunate in attending schools. with progressive ideas.
At 12 o'clock you are to visit a progressive boys' school.
A progressive school strives to develop a child's individuality, to give him full rein to express his feelings and desires on the theory that individuality and genius are cognate.
It's an interesting fusion of traditional and progressive.
Culturally, we're a very advanced group with lots of good Anglo-Dutch and Anglo-Scotch stock and we're very progressive intellectually.
We may not be as large as New York but we're just as progressive.
Yes. In a crisis like this, Freedonia needs a new leader, a progressive fighter, a man like Rufus T. Firefly!
Capable, progressive, how much confidence he had in you.
Then, after a little more telling me how progressive you were. he asked me why I'd come.
The whole of progressive Zagreb supported him in his work.
Another of Ms. Stellwagon's so-called progressive projects?
And that progressive summer camp.
A progressive clock.
I suppose you have a lot of new, progressive ideas.
It's a pleasure to become acquainted with your progressive convictions.
From what we hear, if only some of the other prison governors were as far-seeing and progressive as you are, our work would hardly be necessary.
Freedonia needs a new leader, a progressive fighter, a man like Rufus T. Firefly!
Then he started telling me about what a fine young man you are. Capable, progressive, how much confidence he had in you.
Oh, yes. Then, after a little more telling me how progressive you were. he asked me why I'd come.
A progressive architect like myself.
Just so you don't start teaching that progressive nonsense they're spouting in Washington.
A principal gets his knuckles rapped for being too progressive or he gets criticised for not being modern enough.
It's too bad, after all it's electronics, progressive technology, progressive salary, and it would be more fun to work together.
Tennis champion, swimming champion, dancer, singer, leading progressive, First class MA, great lover - all at the same time.
Some kind of progressive jazz?
Progressive paralysis.
A nice, quiet, progressive town, great for tourists.
Stangmoor Prison's a very progressive place.

News and current affairs

The right policies - stronger social safety nets, progressive taxation, and better regulation (especially of the financial sector), to name a few - can reverse these devastating trends.
President Barack Obama will lose any hope for passing progressive legislation aimed at helping the poor or the environment.
America's New Progressive Era?
The subsequent Progressive Era was followed by a temporary return to plutocracy in the 1920's.
Then came the Great Depression, Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal, and another 30 years of progressive politics, from the 1930's to the 1960's.
It is certainly too early to declare a new Progressive Era in America.
It is time to begin anew, and Obama's full-throated defense of a progressive vision points the US in the right direction.
Many Muslims who have been fighting for years for their countries' modernization have so far failed to find a lucid response to the progressive wave of radical Islam.
But these countries must signal that policies will continue to ensure a progressive and orderly reduction in imbalances together with sustained growth.
Over the last 20 years, molecular biologists have found that the progressive activation of a hierarchy of genes--which play no role in Turing's model--defines an organism's final structure and form.
Raising tax rates for the wealthiest citizens in developing a more progressive income tax framework would bolster this progress.
The progressive social experiment has gone so severely off-track that the state cannot even dependably provide essential services, from courts to education, for the most needy.
Whether or not its path proves to be as progressive as England's may determine who assumes the mantle of global economic leadership.
Some progressive economists want even more.
The Soviet Union, supposedly progressive, remained rooted in patriarchy.
Yet progressive economists chastise him for not doing enough.
This modern, progressive, and peaceful model is unique and superior to all other currently available approaches to the fundamental questions of political order.
Its opponent, the Democratic Progressive Party, wants to strike a more autonomous posture, though whether it would ever really go for anything more substantial than tweaking China's nose is doubtful.

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