Sentence examples for unexpectedly progressive from inspiring English sources

A control freak who likes to set small conversational traps for Nora to fall into, he is somehow not one-dimensional, proving unexpectedly progressive on the matter of gender-based toys (although you suspect that this is more to score a point over Nora than anything else).

Therefore, investigation of other prognostic factors is of special clinical relevance, particularly in view of the unexpectedly progressive course of the disease and frequent relapses in some cases.

These turned out to be sprawling, unexpectedly noisy progressive rock.

Solnit the oddball essayist was suddenly and unexpectedly a progressive icon, a wise female elder.

However, we found, unexpectedly, that progressive similarity was as low for permanent residents as for Neotropical migrants.

Unexpectedly, decreases in progressive similarity resulted from small changes in richness (<1 species per route for the 22-year study period) and modest losses in abundance (−28.7 −10.2 individuals per route) that varied by migratory habit and nest location.

Most unexpectedly, after the new "progressive" moment in January 2009, the "new populism" in America is now decidedly on the Tea Party Right; sparking an anti-Obama, anti-Democrat and anti-government movement; questioning the president's religion, patriotism and even his birth place; and tinged clearly by some with an ugly racial edge.

But it may be her unexpectedly full-throated call for progressive immigration reform that ends up standing out on her west-coast tour.

Amazon on Thursday canceled its plans to build an expansive corporate campus in New York City after facing an unexpectedly fierce backlash from lawmakers, progressive activists and union leaders, who contended that a tech giant did not deserve nearly $3 billion in government incentives.

But the then Taoiseach, Liam Cosgrave, was uneasy about his progressive views and so, unexpectedly, he found himself minister for foreign affairs.

WILMINGTON, Del .― Incumbent Tom Carper won Delaware's Democratic Senate nomination on Thursday, fending off an unexpectedly spirited primary challenge from a progressive that threatened his re-election quest.