Sentence examples for progressive capital from inspiring English sources

"We must remain that progressive capital of the nation".

At the New York event to mark World Aids Day on Tuesday, Cuomo said: "We are the progressive capital of the nation.

Which leaves the New York parade looking all the more retrograde and anomalous, bizarrely so for a city that lays claim to being the progressive capital of America.

"This state has a proud tradition and a proud legacy as the progressive capital of the nation," he said in a hallway outside his office.

She yearns to restore New York's reputation as what she called "a progressive capital," worrying it has trailed behind cities like San Francisco, Seattle, even Cleveland.

"I will not waste even a single day delivering on each of the commitments we've made, working hard to make sure this is a fairer state … the progressive capital of our nation, the ideas capital of our nation," Andrews said.

In one short season, Nagano has made Munich a progressive opera capital.

Along the way, North Carolina's reputation as the south's progressive, intellectual capital has started to circle the drain.

Mr. Hu was said to have rejected some of the more restrictive proposals as too draconian for a progressive national capital.

Hain is calling for a seven-point equality programme, including an effective income tax rate of 62% on higher earners, a financial transactions tax, stamp duty on football transfer fees and reforms to inheritance tax to "make the tax as progressive as capital transfer tax was 40 years ago".

In the process, a man elected for his business acumen, not his eloquence behind a lectern, seems to be finding his voice and, after a decade in office, articulating a thoroughly Bloombergian vision of New York: at once libertarian and progressive, a capital of self-expression and personal freedom, teeming with noisy, sometimes divisive debates that add to its allure rather than detract from it.