Sentence examples for the engine of progress from inspiring English sources
Somewhere along the line, the engine of progress has stalled.
The Liberal Democrats, having been the engine of progress in this whole field for so long, may face challengers for their crown as prime reformers.
"And the engine of progress doesn't have a reverse gear, so it's hard for the first world to get out of the cul-de-sac".
They are the engine of progress, generating the enterprise and innovation that lifts people out of poverty and gives people opportunity.
"The markets", which he hailed as the engine of progress, were and are talked about as "natural" – as if they were forces of gravity or Darwinian evolution.
Productivity — the amount of output delivered per hour of work in the economy — is often viewed as the engine of progress in modern capitalist economies.
The many manifestations of his humanity would be the engines of progress: language, community, science, commerce, moral sensibility and government.
This was a firecracker of a book that challenged wartime conventional wisdom on every front: praising giant companies as the engines of progress; giving warning of the rise of a "new class" of anti-capitalist government employees; worrying that risk-aversion might lead to the triumph of socialism.Mr McCraw is illuminating on Schumpeter's less well-known books.
"Scientists Hope Obama Continues Support for Basic Research" (Nov. 13) correctly characterized the wait-and-see attitude of many scientists and engineers as sweeping budget cuts threaten research and development — the engine of economic progress.
They act as if name-calling is an acceptable substitute for thoughtful debate, as though anger and intolerance should be our default rather than optimism and openness that have always been the engine of our progress".
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.
