We need progressives in office willing to challenge this agenda, and to forge vital reforms.
LIKE animals trying to get into the ark, a procession of couples are turning up at registry offices in London to challenge Britain's tendentious distinction between marriage (only for straight folk) and civil partnership (reserved for gays).
The sign came in official accounts of mourning for Yang Baibing, a general who was pushed from office after being implicated in efforts to challenge Mr. Jiang.
Next, Westminster wisdom blames Mr Cameron for being too much of a chairman and not enough of a chief executive in his first months in office, and for failing to challenge Mr Lansley, an old friend and colleague, earlier.
But once in office, and not willing to challenge his own changed sense of the electorate's desires, he abandoned the affirmative action talk, and never officially removed the 35-hour week's monument to French exceptionalism.
One of the stamps of Mr. Zoellick's time in office has been a willingness to challenge donor countries, including the United States.
On his fifth day in office, he challenged lawmakers to "write a new page in the history book of New York State government," and his administration has done just that more than 80 times, judging by the number of press releases issued by his office that described one of the governor's actions as historic.
The move alleviated fears that Wade, in power for 12 years, would try to stay in office or would challenge the runoff results.
Mr. Zimmer has said repeatedly that he will support Mr. Deasy staying in office, but that he will continue to challenge some of his proposals, particularly on charter schools.
Progressives, in particular, have to hope that Mr. Obama will be more willing to challenge the Bush legacy in office than he has been in the campaign.
