1. This is a sector that sees itself as progressive and forward-leading.

2. Or it is among a growing and powerful new constituency of the progressive and right thinking.

3. His cause of death was not yet known, but vets had been treating him for progressive heart disease.

4. She learned they were socially progressive, at least by Middle East standards.

5. Critics, though, dismiss the effort as an attempt to inject progressive politics into the classroom.