Sentence examples for least progressive from inspiring English sources

His methods were progressive too, or at least progressive enough.

A Democratic candidate shouldn't advertise her ideas as the most progressive or the least progressive, but rather as the best out there.

The plan wouldn't eliminate Social Security taxes (probably the least progressive kind), but there's no reason a higher rate couldn't be adopted to cover this.

Yet Texas has one of the least progressive tax systems in the country, relying on a sales tax that tends to bear down heavily on the poor.

The United States has one of the most unequal income distributions in the developed world, but its tax and transfer system is among the least progressive.

The least progressive of our major parties is in majority government, yet parliament is closer to gender equality than ever before.

MSNBC hosts at almost every hour of the day have repeatedly argued for tighter gun restrictions in the four months since Sandy Hook, suggesting that the subject is a way to rally progressives — or at least progressive-minded cable TV viewers.

But at the same time, government leaders acknowledge that they have a moral debt to the church, or at least its progressive wing.

Documentation of "at least 14 progressive design iterations" for a missile warhead to deliver an atomic warhead to a distant target.

A senior White House official told journalists Tuesday, "We are committed to making the tax code at least as progressive as the current tax code". Translation: The poor should not end up paying more than they do now.

The elasticity of the term "transgender" has forced a rethinking of what sex and gender mean; at least in progressive circles, what's determinative isn't people's chromosomes or their genitals or the way that they were brought up but how they see themselves.