Example sentences for: progressives

How can you use “progressives” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Pressures for some kind of change have been alternately encouraged and resisted as the state’s volatile political establishment has swung back and forth between conservatives and progressives.

  • It emerged at the time of World War I, and the principal figures in its creation--Learned Hand, Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., and Louis Brandeis--were not classical liberals; they were progressives.

  • In 1992, and to a lesser extent in 1996, Perot managed to unite both Anderson progressives and Wallace populists, but if history is any guide, nobody will pull off that miracle in this election.

  • A postelection editorial on ballot measures asserts that progressives won big on campaign finance reform (in Massachusetts and Arizona), but lost on cultural issues (gay marriage bans in Hawaii and Alaska).

  • The cover story argues that devolution of power from the federal government to the states is an opportunity for progressives.


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