Sentence examples for progressive ambitions from inspiring English sources

"Qatar's inadequate labour law reforms undermined its progressive ambitions," said Sarah Leah Whitson, middle east director at Human Rights Watch.

The classical order of Beaux-Arts architecture represented the unattainable ideal of a society torn apart by its progressive ambitions.

The Roar coach posited that City's persistent fouling disrupted the flow of the game and discredited the progressive ambitions of the A-League.

I am writing before the results of Election Day 2009 are known, but it's a cinch that the electoral results will be a check on progressive ambitions.

And a Scandinavian-style universal childcare [pdf] system would be a fine progressive ambition for a Labour party keen to flex its radical muscles.

Jowell thinks it better, these days, to make a proper job of explaining and delivering the ideals of the Big Society, that damaged David Cameron wheeze which she described as a "progressive ambition".

In this kind of setting any progressive political ambition and social policy, like same-gender marriage, is subservient to the constitutional juggernauts that inevitably direct the majority of people's vote.

During the great emo boom of 2003, Coheed and Cambria was a thrilling anomaly: a small, punkish band besotted with the supersize sounds and ambitions of progressive rock.

This creativity also manifests itself in the French predilection for grand theorising, and in the often breathtaking ambition of progressive thinkers in their quest to uncover original truths about the human condition.

I'm impressed by his virtuosity and prescience, his progressive ideals and modern ambition.

Is progress necessarily progressive?