Sentence examples for strengthen progressive from inspiring English sources

In a recent article in The Nation, William Greider describes the American Sustainable Business Council, the Main Street Alliance and the Small Business Majority, all efforts to strengthen progressive coalitions around issues like health care and immigration reform.

To challenge the assumed trade-offs, it seems enough to find cases where all the three good things go together and others where regressive policies on one dimension do not strengthen progressive policies on the others, but produce instead backlashes on these too.

But there are many policies which, even in the short term, would produce a more democratic and egalitarian city: more and better public housing, rent control and regulation, community control of neighborhood space, expanding social welfare, strengthening progressive labor unions, and empowering social movements that embody the political ambitions of the urban working classes and poor.

But experimentation at the level of cities on the minimum wage and other issues, which may create opportunities presently unforeseen, and unpredictable shifts in alliances like what happened in the 1930s, may hold the key to future successes of what appears to be a slowly strengthening progressive movement.

In opposition, we would strengthen the progressive's side; in government, we would embolden them.

Simply knowing that customers care about these things – not in a big activist way, but a bit – helps strengthen the progressive voices for more action within companies, and cements in the gains that they make over time.

Whether we hanker for revolution or, as I nowadays fight for, a few significant reforms to strengthen the progressive forces within nation states, we need to stay on the move, sharpening our intellects to encompass the changing dynamics of the present.

Prior to joining the Obama Administration, Gautam worked to strengthen the progressive movement and expand the Democratic Party as Director of the 2008 Obama Campaign's Asian American Finance Committee, Midwest Finance Director for the Democratic National Committee under Chairman Howard Dean, and in other positions for the DNC and Progressive Majority.

De Jong has served on a number of boards and as chair of the Pacific School of Religion, Berkeley Organizing Congregations for Action (BOCA), and the Beatitudes Society, a national organization working to strengthen the progressive Christian network for justice, compassion and peace.

RICE followed by soft tissue massage, stretching, core strengthening, progressive agility and neuromuscular control exercises, a graded running programme and an isolated hamstring strengthening programme with specific emphasis on eccentric exercises.

"Rouhani's government will have more legitimacy and that will weaken the hardliners and strengthen the progressives," he said.