"Is our purpose unfettered economic progress?
The coincidence of Mahanian doctrine emerging in tandem with Herbert Spencer's belief that unfettered competition promoted progress led to a naval arms race that revolutionized seagoing architecture and hastened the replacement of sail with steam.
There is so much to savour in this rolling, picaresque tale of grotesques and their progress: so much unfettered imagination, so much sly irony and comic anarchy.
Werth is a gifted writer, and his subject is especially important in our current economic crisis, as Americans are reassessing their belief that social progress will grow naturally out of unfettered free-market competition.
ADAM SMITH'S most enthusiastic modern disciples insist that the recipe for economic progress is to push government aside and let unfettered markets work their magic.
Mr. Gosper said the process of obtaining access to sites like those was "a work in progress," but that Internet access it is still not unfettered, as Olympic organizers promised the I.O.C. when the Games were awarded to China in 2001.
Instead of urging General Musharraf to stop maneuvering against unfettered elections and Pakistan's main secular parties, Mr. Powell lavished undeserved praise upon him for democratic progress.
