Sentence examples for progressive figures from inspiring English sources

One of the more progressive figures at the council, Ratzinger opposed those who hoped to limit reform.

Its most notable achievement was harassing a large number of progressive figures - mostly women – to the point where they felt unsafe or considered leaving the industry.

Although Galton was a conservative, his creed caught on with progressive figures like Harold Laski, John Maynard Keynes, George Bernard Shaw, and Sidney and Beatrice Webb.

I'm not telling people where to give money, but if there is to be a spotlight shed on me, then I'd like to direct that spotlight on to causes I think are worthy or on to interesting, progressive figures".

Working with progressive figures like Henry Krehbiel, a music critic and educator, and Jeannette Thurber, the founder of the National Conservatory of Music, Dvorak sets an example (in works like the Symphony "From the New World," the "American" String Quartet, the Humoresques for piano and the "Biblical Songs") of what an "American inflected" music might be.

Several prominent progressive figures and many academics made similar assessments.

legislator, U.S. secretary of the interior (1893 96), and progressive figure in Georgia politics.

(His brother Pierre Klossowski, subject of a fantastic show at the Whitechapel Gallery in 2006, was the more progressive figure).

Presidential candidate Marina Silva, a pentecostal evangelist, was forced to backtrack on proposals for same-sex marriage, despite being viewed by many as a liberal, progressive figure.

"He is a progressive figure and is best placed to implement the findings of the commission of inquiry," said Paul Winn, author of the report.

The book, which has been published in Hong Kong, also attacks the suggestion that Premier Wen is a progressive figure, or a reformer.