The company said the success in reducing net debt by £45.7m, almost 50%, over the last three years to £50m, has enabled it to "adopt a more progressive dividend policy".
Equipped with this information, analysts, asset owners, investors and financial regulators can scrutinise investments and push companies to diversify portfolios away from fossil fuels and high risk, carbon-intensive projects, and adopt a more progressive approach to managing climate risks.
Industry must, then, adopt a more progressive model, working with academia and regulators, to foster more rapid translation of laboratory advances to clinical practice, in order to become more relevant and competitive.
Trump's positions are so inconsistent, for all we know he may adopt a more progressive platform.
However, there is hope, and a better way of doing things, but it will require us to adopt a more progressive model of treatment.
Leslie was a Confederate sympathizer during the Civil War, but began to adopt a more progressive position during his gubernatorial campaign against Harlan.
The revised decrees that grew out of the council discussions and the work of the enlarged commissions tended to have a more progressive viewpoint.
Chamberlain used his control of the Liberal Unionists to pressure the Conservatives into adopting a more progressive social policy; before 1892 he had the satisfaction of seeing the Conservatives pass various measures of social reform.
Hillary Clinton could have adopted a more progressive platform.
It was only after publication of Wonderful Life that Conway Morris revised his interpretation and adopted a more progressive stance towards the history of life.
But can market forces alone drive a company to adopt a more socially progressive corporate culture?
