Sentence examples for oppose progress from inspiring English sources

"It's extremely easy to use scare tactics in order to oppose progress on this issue, because it's nuclear," said Ted Garrish, vice president of the Nuclear Energy Institute.

Romney, despite his pose of chiselled equanimity, has pledged to ravage the safety net, oppose progress on marriage equality, ignore all warnings of ecological disaster, dismantle health-care reform, and appoint right-wing judges to the courts.

"It became cynical because it was about a certain view of what was realistic; it was moralistic in the sense that if you did not agree with their discourse you were opposing progress.

Sadly, the AMA has long opposed progress in medical practice and treatment that empowers patients and removes physicians from the absolute center of the decision-making process.

It is perhaps unthinkable that women should oppose the progress, or even presence, of women in any walk of life.

Engaging the public means listening to, and taking seriously, all sorts of opinions, although engaging people who have views that might appear to oppose scientific progress can agitate members of the scientific community.

In an interview shown Monday on state TV, Patriarch Kirill said the church does not oppose technological progress but is concerned that "someone can know exactly where you are, know exactly what you are interested in, know exactly what you are afraid of" and that such information could be used for centralized control of the world.

"We're not blindly opposed to progress," he said, "we're opposed to blind progress".

I am also opposing scientific progress.

His own interpretation was that "humanity is normally opposed to progress; instead, it clutches with tenacity to the customs and fetishes of its ancestors".

A former Peace Corps volunteer who lived for two years in one of Beijing's hutongs in the Dazhalan district near Tiananmen Square, Mr. Meyer is not opposed to progress.