Sentence examples for progressive legislating from inspiring English sources

For the next little while, whether the president is Hillary, Michael Moore or the re-animated corpse of Susan B. Anthony, progressive legislating will likely be slow going.

It's a quasi-algebraic formula that he believes will be key for making effective progress toward legislating progressive principles such as universal healthcare, and equal access to higher education and academic resources.

Every dairy farmer, past and present, will tell you that in 1933 a progressive, forward-looking government legislated to form the Milk Marketing Board.

Bjorn's candidacy is a response to criticism from the left and from the right as to how progressives plan to legislate liberal principles at the state and local levels without creating a chasm (a la the Tea Party and Republicans) in the Democratic party between Bernie Sanders supporters and Hillary Clinton supporters.

"My point of view — and by the way, I had this point of view when it was President Obama and Tom Wheeler, to the chagrin of my progressive friends — is that we should legislate," he said (I took his comment to mean it would have been unpopular in 2014 to embark on a parallel track to moot an effort endorsed by the president).

In simple terms, in a world where progressives want government to change things and conservatives favor the status quo, a legislative body that makes legislating difficult will be a conservative force.

As a 30-year veteran of the New York Assembly and Senate, I agree with your description of a leadership-controlled Legislature that has made the state, once a model of progressive government, a prime example of how not to legislate (front page, Oct. 21).

Warren Entsch, the federal government MP for the area and self-proclaimed "redneck progressive", responded to the attack on Monday by saying: "You can't legislate against human stupidity".

In the 19th century, when, in the aftermath of the industrial revolution, poverty was more visible than ever, rather than just legislating to take money from the rich to feed and house the poor, progressive thinkers tried to understand what it was about economic arrangements that caused so many to be excluded.

You can legislate away the symbols of religious fundamentalism, but real moderation must be nurtured through progressive policies that help Muslim immigrants succeed within mainstream European society.

"He understood legislating".