Sentence examples for progressive assumptions from inspiring English sources

Certainly it is a departure from the perceived instrumentalism of recent government thinking, and as such it undermines some fairly sacred progressive assumptions.

Set during the Bush years, the play draws convincing, counterintuitive parallels between the "blind spots" of neoconservatism and Ellen's emotional arrogance, while holding her own progressive assumptions up to a harsh light; devotees of "The Daily Show" might feel eavesdropped on.

The progressive assumption seems to be that it is fine to have an attachment to friends and family, and perhaps a neighbourhood or a city – "I'm proud to be a Londoner" – and, of course, to humanity as a whole.

In computing PSE estimates for all subjects, the progressive detection assumption is not necessary.

We formulate a simple version of PSE and show that it leads to an upper bound on screening efficacy if the progressive detection assumption does not hold (and any effect of birth cohort is minimal) To determine if the upper bound is reasonable, for three randomized screening trials, we compared PSE estimates based only on screened subjects with PSE estimates based on all subjects.

However, it must be emphasised that, for diseases like dementia, with its progressive nature, this assumption is very unlikely to hold true.

Similar to lung disease, this problem appears to be progressive and the assumption that swallowing function worsens with age is consistent with the progression of neurodegeneration and the bulbar impairments associated with A-T [ 5].

The first minimum wage laws were advocated by progressive economists on the assumption that if you forced employers to pay a "white man's wage," they'd only hire white men.

Liberal groups and political action committees like MoveOn and Democracy for America have labeled a number of these neo-colonialist Democrats as "progressive heroes" on the assumption that a progressive domestic policy for (predominantly white) Americans somehow makes up for racist policies toward people of color overseas.

These values can be explained by the progressive failure of the assumption of an isotropic globular shape, which is expected for the two samples in which the polyQ tail is unstructured [25].

Is progress necessarily progressive?