progressists

But the elite progressists, they think they are better than anyone else.

Matthew Yglesias » The Real Torture Debate 2010

Imperial Parliament by the progressists, one decrees the nationalization of all railways not yet owned by the state, and the other asks for an appropriation of 50,000,000 yen for the building of a new railroad.

If Not Silver, What? John W. Bookwalter

The total abolition of feudalism may be said to have now come in sight, but the leading progressists adopted all precautions to consummate their programme without disturbance.

A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era Dairoku Kikuchi 1886

Clarin dates its renascence from the political revolution of 1868, which gave Spanish literature the freedom necessary to the fiction that studies to reflect modern life, actual ideas, and current aspirations; and though its authors were few at first, "they have never been adventurous spirits, friends of Utopia, revolutionists, or impatient progressists and reformers."

Dona Perfecta Benito P��rez Gald��s 1881

There was, among others, also Stawowski, who is considered a leader among the advanced progressists.

Without Dogma Henryk Sienkiewicz 1881

The opportunity that the martyrs found here in the Colosseum, from whose blood grew up this great tree of Papacy, was not of the kind waited for by these moderate progressists.

At Home And Abroad Or, Things And Thoughts In America and Europe Margaret Fuller 1830

A few of the more determined progressists, denying the sacred laws of property, which the Saint-Simonians were already attacking under their abstract theories of political economy, went further.

The Village Rector Honor�� de Balzac 1824