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Dawkins (2004) is quick to qualify his hesitating support for "progressive evolution" by referring to a "value-free" rather than "value-laden" progress in which change occurs in a direction one might consider desirable according to some normative value system, as toward humanity (if we are to be considered the pinnacle of life)—which seems reasonable, from our anthropocentric perspective.
In that sense, it's both a pilgrim's and rake's progress in which a moral imperative gets muddled with rank opportunism.
Good golf is a Pilgrims Progress, in which angels sometimes help us from the slough of despond by a neat chip shot to salvations green.
We have lived for decades with a paradigm of progress, in which each generation would be better off than the last.
In this account, the "cycle of life," where growth was followed by decay, became replaced by the idea of progress, in which change and transformation had positive connotations.
His sermon returned to the storm imagery that he had enjoyed at Ramsgate, as he elaborated the argument that life is a pilgrim's long progress in which our little boat endures terrible storms.
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Indeed, it suggests a life in progress, one in which living is going on, rather than a stiff, sterile layout meant to count as taste for the ages.
Through initiatives like the Campaign for the Farmed Environment, farmers are making good progress in sustainability, which should be celebrated.
Intel has also made progress in South Korea, which is using a version of WiMax called WiBro, and in developing countries like Brazil and Pakistan.
Yet the government cannot achieve the "inclusive" growth it aspires to without robust progress in agriculture, which still employs about half of India's workforce.
Zen Rooms co-founder and global MD Nathan Boublil told TechCrunch that the company is seeing progress in Southeast Asia, which has a cumulative population of over 600 million.
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