Sentence examples for supposed progress from inspiring English sources

Throwing away principles in the name of modernization and supposed progress is hollow and meaningless without those principles.

Nationally, bottling up pay pressure may well mean that in the next few years some of the supposed progress in productivity is reversed.

The Latin American giant's supposed progress on environmental protection has unravelled in the past year as revelations of record levels of deforestation, violent land disputes and runaway forest fires have followed in quick succession.

On Christmas Eve it'll track Santa's supposed progress around the world, but until then it functions as an interactive advent calendar, with something new to play with every day.

Opponents saw them as the latest manifestation of what the cultural critic Leo Marx identified as "the Machine in the Garden": the engine of supposed progress — whether it's the steamboat that smashes Huck Finn's raft or the all-conquering locomotive — that challenges a more dulcet way of life.

Instead, it bears the same scars from supposed progress as a lot of places: boarded-up pubs, fields making way for Starter Homes, and a town centre trying to make the best of it while neon-lit retail parks do a roaring trade.

Similarly, in the runup to the 2008 crisis, inflated asset prices were justified in terms of the supposed progresses in financial innovation and in the techniques of economic policy.

In the early stages of the campaign, the focus was more on the defects of the current United Progressive Alliance government and the supposed material progress of Gujarat under Modi, however illusory such progress may have been for most of its citizens.

Kaji, though he is drawn to some aspects of Socialist thinking, never becomes a true believer, and ends up more of an existentialist hero than an exemplar of supposed political progress.

Now they orbit one another as the two great British artists of the 20th century, and probably will always be grouped in art history as blunt individualists who defied the supposed inevitable progress of the readymade to paint like modern reincarnations of Velázquez.

Men are supposed to progress, but they aren't supposed to focus on what they can gain in the future.