Sentence examples for progressive attempts from inspiring English sources

Of course, such sexist logic thwarts progressive attempts to have women's interests represented in the civic realm.

That's certainly a laudable goal, and de Blasio was on sound ground when he pointed to New York's long history of progressive attempts to make it a reality, from Jacob Riis to Al Smith to Fiorello LaGuardia, whom he trumpeted as the city's greatest leader.

In this perspective, progressive attempts have been made to improve the wear resistance of polyethylene to eliminate osteolysis and mechanical reliability of brittle alumina ceramics, but in vain.

In the case, Adkins v. Children's Hospital, the Supreme Court struck down this legislation under the so-called "freedom to contract," a doctrine the conservative Supreme Court at the time had used to invalidate progressive attempts to make the laissez-faire economy of the early 20th century more receptive to policies to protect workers and consumers.

Piaget also linked the concept of autism directly to the child's progressive attempts to engage with reality (Vidal, 1994: 209–1994

Ms. Quinn did herself no favors by resisting for so long the progressive attempt to extend a few sick days to working-class New Yorkers.

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The only criterion for selection of volunteers was a progressive attempt to match, as well as possible, sex and age ratios in Experiment 1, and then less so in Experiments 2, and 3.

Still, after looking back at what the progressives attempted and accomplished in their brief moment of triumph, one cannot help but agree with Mr. McGerr that, compared to the early 20th-century era of reform, "we live in a politically disappointing time".

Now these Progressives attempted to explain why the bill would be wonderful, even with all their core ideas stripped out of it.

In many cases, the changes would have fallen disproportionately on poor, black, elderly and disabled voters and were denounced by Democrats and progressives as attempts to suppress voter turnout.