Sentence examples for progressive tendencies from inspiring English sources

Versus Swansea an aerial bombardment made sense irrespective of West Ham's progressive tendencies in recent weeks.

Girardin's political attitudes shifted with changes in public opinion; he was a middle-class conservative who occasionally showed progressive tendencies.

A lot of the rhetoric used is from the Don Dunstan era, without acknowledging that the state has lost a lot of its progressive tendencies since then.

For anyone with what used to be called "progressive tendencies," the best, if largely overlooked, book of last year was surely John Bew's biography of Clement Attlee, the leader of the British Labour Party through the Second World War, and then Prime Minister in the first great postwar Labour government.

The catalyst for this was the financial and moral support the museum received in 1929 from its founding trustees, especially Lillie P. Bliss, Mary Quinn Sullivan, and Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, who were determined to create a museum devoted exclusively to the most progressive tendencies in modern art.

These concepts coalesced in the Museum of Modern Art, the first museum in North America to declare itself "modern"; it identified itself with the most progressive tendencies in art, which meant work that was original and daring and challenged traditional or established canons.

Tillman now wants to "put an end to our endless, progressive tendency to scorn".

But their claims to represent a moderate or progressive tendency in Islam are becoming increasingly difficult to sustain.

It was due to this progressive tendency of the Pharisees that their interpretation of the Torah continued to develop and has remained a living force in Judaism.

Tillman was once the sort of snarky wag who operated above sincerity, deploying "our endless progressive tendency to scorn", as he puts it on I Went to the Store One Day, the penultimate song, sung with particular tender force.

The Author as Producer is a defence of the left wing of the modernist avant-garde, typified for Benjamin by the surrealists, who were against the party's stance on easily comprehensible, realistic stories with a strong progressive tendency.