Examples of progressive

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In turn, an understanding of these scope conditions facilitates the determination of whether and how progressive change can be implemented.
The particular perspective we set as we ask ourselves this question generates the aspect that comes to mind, and my question sets a progressive stage.
The science and humanism of medicine is therefore perceived as largely beneficial and progressive in understanding and responding to illness and disease.
Across years, however, the songs show progressive change to such an extent that after several years, little if any of the original song components remain.
The development of this system also appears to involve a progressive increase in structural complexity.
Because of this background, many immigrants were self-conscious of their progressive and modern status.
Thus, there were additional ' progressive ' reasons for opposing the game laws' entrenchment of wild animals as public property and their removal from the market.
The present progressive construction is also similar in the two languages for morphology and syntax.
The volume is progressive with respect to the previous in two senses.
Within the general progressive plan particular projects are linked, focusing on using specific musical elements and compositional devices.
The children with autism performed well on the present progressive form, as did the controls.
Neglecting such a line of research, in other words, may be neglecting a project that is at once politically progressive and epistemically non-trivial and challenging.
Unscorable responses were those where the verb appeared in other tense/aspect forms like the progressive, or with modals, and so forth.
The process may be progressive and lead to pulmonary venous stenosis.
The progressive occlusion of major arteries has been reported and is associated with poor prognosis.
At 9 days of age, progressive thickening of the duct was seen, with closure of the aortic end and absent flow.
During the first weeks of life, a progressive reduction of cyanosis was noted.
Since such stenotic lesions tend to be progressive,5 the number of patients with these lesions is expected to increase.
Figure 1 presents original chart recordings and compares rapid inflation of the balloon catheter with progressive inflation.
Following separation from bypass, severe progressive fetal hypercarbia develops routinely.
Progressive heart failure may develop and be related to left-sided abnormalities (such as excessive myocardial fibrosis) as well as right-sided abnormalities.
In most children, stenosis of the pulmonary valve is mild and non-progressive; ventricular function is normal and exercise capacity is not impaired.
The process of equilibration is assumed to be univer82 sal and progressive, but this does not imply a particular predetermined end-state.
More often, the simple past or past progressive is used.
Late learners had difficulty on most rules, except those involving word order and the present progressive -ing inflection.
A district or neighbourhood is the result of a morphological process which reveals the various progressive interventions and identifies a particular territory.
Long and narrow arcades provide the most progressive and sustained thermal transients, whereas wide or short arcades produce rather abrupt and ephemeral ones.
An original method of survey had to be developed to record the dynamic nature of the progressive environmental transients in arcades.
Here the progressive form were quenching governs its object via the preposition of, thus closely resembling the gerundial structure under discussion.
Both the present perfect tense and the progressive form have been subjected to detailed investigation.
In other words, the progressive process overall can either lie entirely prior to the speech event, or it can extend through the speech event.
A further factor in the spread of the progressive is its extension to all clause types.
Whether it is also a factor in the general spread of the progressive has, to my knowledge, not been investigated yet.
Five pts (6.4%) have been reoperated; one for mitral valve repair failure (6 mos) and 4 for autograft failure with progressive regurgitation (20-26 mos).
Two patients required reoperation for progressive tricuspid valve insufficiency 11.7 and 16.8 years after operation, respectively.
Unfortunately, such positive feedback loops may form a vicious cycle leading to progressive problems for some children.
Thus, some tax more progressive than a head tax is required.
The progressive is also a highly salient construction in the representation of time.
In (6) and (7) an accomplishment is 'interrupted', so to speak, by the use of the progressive, which 'cuts off ' the endpoint from consideration.
The generalization that the progressive has the effect of turning a bounded sentence into an unbounded one does not apply indiscriminately, however.
The category of past progressives includes not only 'plain' past progressives, but also two past perfect progressives.
Conservatives regulate personal indiscretions whereas progressives focus on transgressions of state.
Furthermore, he claims, the progressives did not completely abandon traditional standards.
Habituals may be modified by adverbials like every day (iva), and they may be turned into progressives to indicate a temporary habituality (ivb).
The most commonly produced transitive verbs were knock and do (mostly present progressives and past tense uses).
Next, since progressives are derived imperfectives, the analysis accounts for the occurrence of progressives in both the past and present tense.
Over the course of the century, the proportion of progressives modified by temporal adverbials declined significantly.
The geographically and culturally isolated society consists of progressives and conservatives who revolve around the hierarchy of clan names.
In the actual reforming activity of the period too, progressives from different orders can be seen standing together against the more conservative minded.
The short answer for many progressives was that industry should become a kind of representative democracy with a constitution and civil liberties for all participants.
Subsequent efforts by progressives and moderates to build alternative political movements almost fractured the ruling party.
No important political or civic organizations organized the state's white progressives.
To progressives, authentic public opinion could only be formed after the "proper" information had been presented and discussed under the guidance of an enlightened elite.
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