progressivism

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the political orientation of those who favor progress toward better conditions in government and society

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The leader of the Democratic Progressist Party (PDP), Ahmed Nejib Chebbi, which seeks to be an alternative to the Islamists, has also been critical of the reform panel, arguing that it is "not widely representative" because its members are not elected.
They reflected the interest of certain counselors of the monarch at the time in European progressist ideas.
That would be falling into the progressist trap" (End Papers, 133; italics in the original).
However, judging any Arab, whether liberal or conservatist, progressist or regressist, religious or secular, is based only on his/her position towards the peace process.
On the other hand, Maritinists were also universalist, progressist and utopist.
This was particularly obvious during the gubernatorial campaign of 1906 when Thomas Watson and other progressist leaders did not hesitate to embrace the ideology of white supremacy to win electoral votes and to make disfranchisement the foundation by which they could wrest power from the Democratic party.
Teaduslik-tehnilisest progressist ja korgharidusest.--Eesti Kommunist, 1988, 9, 59.
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