We have helped the Japanese to preserve their independence as a constitutional nation, and most Englishmen vaguely sympathise with the desire of the Chinese progressives both for national independence and internal reform.
Now the Empress Dowager may have reasoned thus: "The progressives and reformers have had their day.
Yet, for well-known reasons, these sincere and honest southern progressives and reactionaries vote together in a single party, which is neither progressive nor reactionary.
Sometimes in both Democratic and Republican States the progressives get control of the party locally and then the reactionaries recapture the same party in the same State; or this process is reversed.
We progressives believe in this rule of the people that the people themselves may deal with their own destiny.
In 1913 the Independent Democrats, Republicans, and Progressives united in a fusion movement.
The revolt of the Progressives in 1912 had a character of its own; but neither of the old parties squarely joined issue with the Progressives in the contest which followed.
The majority of the Progressives returned to the Republican fold in 1916.
He set out to make the campaign a battle between the Progressives and the Democrats--the old discredited Republicans fell back into a rather dead conservative minority.
The proclamations of so-called progressives that they will jail financiers, or "wage relentless warfare" upon social evils, are simply the reiterations of men who do not understand the uses of the state.
The conservatives could better remain what they were and the progressives could more easily become what they wanted to be.
Or if I called him a Progressive, it might be supposed to mean that he votes for Progressives at the County Council election, which I very much doubt.
The Labour Party was barely half a dozen strong on the Council, so that even with the support of the Progressives it was extremely doubtful whether he could command a majority of votes.
In nearly all the other London boroughs the Progressives and Labour men were badly beaten.
No man, not Johnson nor Roosevelt, carries the progressives in his pocket.
The real fact is that Roosevelt undertook to deliver the progressives and could not do it in the West.
The progressives in the East were Perkins progressives who could be delivered.
The reactionaries and the progressives combined--Penrose and La Follette joined hands to stop all legislation, so that the government is without money to carry on its work.
All these changes were not introduced without much opposition; the Progressives especially distinguished themselves by their prolonged refusal to assent even to the subsidies for German lines of steamers.
He complained, and justly complained, that the policy of the Progressives was then, as always, negative.
They dared to do what none of the Progressiveshad ventured on--they disobeyed the law.
Even in the hostile Reichstag of 1884, in which the Socialists, Clericals, andProgressives together commanded a majority, a series of important laws were passed.
The extreme Radicals and Progressives still continued their opposition; the majority of the party formed themselves into a new organisation, to which they gave the name of National Liberals.
The law was carried by a large majority, being opposed only by the Progressivesand the Centre.
Looking in their mirrors, the progressives of that generation were tempted to think that perfection might have been within their reach had not their youth been stunted by the influence of Calvin and the British Constitution.
For weeks the issue hung in doubt, but gradually James gathered adherents among both progressives and conservatives.
Both of them were bound for the office of the candidate being supported by the progressives for the Senate.
That he had risen to leadership of the progressives in the House during his first term showed his quality.
Part 2 At the ensuing election the progressives swept the state in spite of all that the allied corporations could do.
Jeff and the progressives were to stand back of him, and he felt sure that after a nominal existence the standpatters would accept him.
His intention was to line up with the progressives during the campaign, to win his reelection on that platform, and to support a rational liberal program during the session.
Therefore, he advised that the negro delegates ought to be approved by the White Progressives in their several districts.
In the system of direct primaries, by which the people indicated their preference instead of having the candidates chosen in the State Conventions, which were controlled by the Machine, the Progressives came out far ahead.
The great majority of the Progressives desired Roosevelt, but, since he would say neither yes nor no, they naturally turned to Senator La Follette.
For we must remember that the Democratic Platform was hardly less progressive than that of the Progressives themselves.
For the Democrats, Wilson was, of course, the only candidate; but the Republicans and the Progressives had their own schism to settle.
Then he had stood out as a Liberal in Congress, and from Liberal he became Insurgent, and now that the Insurgents were being defined as Progressives, he led the Progressives in Congress.
Should its leaders strive now to revive its strength or should they bow to the inevitable, combine with the Republicans on a satisfactory candidate, and urge all the Progressives as a patriotic duty to support him?
Suspense followed as to whether Roosevelt, by accepting, would oblige the Progressives to organize another campaign.
Some of the Progressivesresented his defection from them; not so Roosevelt, who said: "He will not be with us, but we must not blame him.
The Progressives held their Convention in Chicago on June 5th, the same day that the Republicans met there.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "progressives" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
