Sentence examples for progressive opposition from inspiring English sources

His idea was to challenge the conventional progressive opposition to censorship.

It also protested the recent arrest of a progressive opposition lawmaker on charges of treason.

It opposed the dominance of the military-industrial complex with the hope that social movements could reform the Democrats as a party of progressive opposition.

Whilst we have a very good relationship with the Labour assembly members, as part of a progressive opposition to Boris Johnson, they are unfortunately handicapped by supporting a government with the worst environmental record I can remember.

While politicians here are often former elite bureaucrats or the scions of political families, Mr. Kan is a former civic activist who rose through the country's progressive opposition before becoming one of the Democratic Party's founding members.

More than that, it would mean examining the decades of support for brutal dictatorships in the Middle East, support for regimes that have crushed any nascent democratic movements, contributing to the lack of significant secular, progressive opposition forces today.

Having sidelined his laic critics and elements of the "deep state" through the controversial Ergenekon trials, Erdogan now moved toward suppressing the liberal-progressive opposition.

Lumping progressive purists opposition with those that favor the Act yields a number more consistent with that observation.

Facing progressive political opposition, the provincial government ultimately implemented $4 in spending cuts for every $1 dollar in revenue increases, based on a small (2%) increase to the tax rate (surtax) for those in the highest income tax bracket (earning more than $500,000 a year), until the budget is balanced.

Siewert said Fremantle was a progressive city and opposition to the date change was loudest outside its boundaries, among the ranks of the WA Liberal party.

But otherwise she and the other winning SNP candidates maintained discipline, basically repeating the same message in interview after interview about the SNP promoting "progressive politics", and opposition to austerity and renewal of Trident.