On March 17, 1910, after two failed attempts to curb Cannon's absolute power in the House, Nebraska Representative George Norris led a coalition of 42 progressive Republicans and the entire delegation of 149 Democrats in a revolt.

Taft, ever reluctant to dismiss cabinet members, nevertheless used the resignations of Ballinger and War Secretary Dickinson to modify the complexion of the cabinet by appointing more progressive Republicans.

Historian and Teddy Roosevelt biographer Edmund Morris called Wilson in the Governor's race a " dark horse " and attributed his and others ' success against the Taft Republicans in 1910 in part to the emergent national progressive message enunciated by Roosevelt in his post-presidency.

Following the resignation for health reasons of President pro tempore William P. Frye, a Senate divided among progressive Republicans, conservative Republicans, and Democrats reached a compromise by which each of their candidates would rotate holding the office from 1911 to 1913 ( see Presidents pro tempore of the United States Senate, 1911-1913 ).

" This belief would stay with Seward through his life and permeate his career, though as Secretary of State under President Johnson he endorsed Johnson's " side-stepping of the demands of more progressive Republicans, who had sought to guarantee far more favorable treatment for freed slaves.

Most Johnson County Republicans identify themselves as moderates, the more socially progressive and fiscally conservative faction of the Kansas Republican Party.

He was a member of the liberal wing of the Republican Party and organized the Senate's " Wednesday Club " of progressive Republicans who met for Wednesday lunches and strategy discussions.

Scholars Diane Blair and Jay L. Barth continue: “ As long as Rockefeller led the Arkansas Republicans, the party had a progressive, reformist cast, and those whom Rockefeller had brought into the party continued to dominate party offices and shape presidential preferences until 1980 ,” when the nomination and election of Ronald W. Reagan of California as president and Frank D. White as governor moved power within the state GOP “ sharply to the right .” Ultimately the growth of the Republican Party was slower in Arkansas than in the other southern states in the post-segregation era.

During Dolliver's service in the Senate, Iowa Republicans were divided between a conservative old guard that had dominated state politics since the Civil War, and a new progressive wing led by Albert B. Cummins, a lawyer and ( after 1902 ) Governor of Iowa.

He was known as a member of the progressive wing of the Democratic Party, who worked with Republicans such as Robert La Follette.

Alexander McKenzie's conservative political machine controlled the Senate, but the House of Representatives was filled with progressive Democrats and Republicans, who managed to introduce many anti-railroad bills against staunch opposition by lobbyists.

North Dakota Republicans favored progressive presidential candidate Robert M. La Follette over Theodore Roosevelt and William Howard Taft.

Mitchel's success occurred as an older generation of Democrats, men like John Franklin Kinney, were returning to the private sector, having been eclipsed by Theodore Roosevelt and the progressive Republicans.

His shifting party orientation reflected the internal divisions between " progressive " and " Old Guard " Republicans of the period from 1912 to 1916.

* 2003: A progressive liberal faction formed the European Republicans Movement ( Movimento Repubblicani Europei )

Meanwhile, McNary maintained friendly relations with both progressive and conservative factions of the Oregon Republicans as well as with West.

However, the term " community organizing " generally refers to more progressive organizations, as evidenced, for example, by the reaction against community organizing in the 2008 US presidential election by Republicans and conservatives on the web and elsewhere.

Tilson was too closely associated with the increasingly unpopular Hoover, and Snell had made some concessions to the progressive Republicans.

By then the Republicans, who were from the most rural areas of the state, held on to power only in the Rhode Island Senate, where they blocked legislation supported by progressive Republicans and Democrats.

With the Republicans divided between conservative and progressive factions, the Democrats gained five net seats from the Republicans while the Farmer-Labor party gained one.

While conservatives controlled the largest number of elected positions for Republicans, progressive politics had been what brought many voters to the polls.

As the more conservative group with strong backing from wealthy businessmen, the U.M.C.I.A. was generally favored against the more progressive, labor-based U.N.F.P..

Despite containing some of the bands favored live tracks, including " Blown Away ," " The Bland Within ," " District " and " America ," some fans felt alienated by the album's progressive nature and in a recent interview, frontman Lou Koller claimed that the album's cover art probably contributed to its poor reception.

CUP favored a re-installation of the short-lived constitution of 1876, written by progressive Midhat Pasha.

Individuals like Pressman and De Caux would not have considered working for the CIO if the CP had not shifted its position from sectarian purity to first a united front and later a popular front policy that favored alliances with other " progressive forces.

The supporters of Maria Christina and her daughter favored a liberal constitution and progressive social policies.

Since coming to the House, he has voted in favor of most campaign finance laws and other laws favored by more progressive elements of the Democratic Party to reform politics.

Critics favored legislation and regulations to improve tenement conditions, but the model tenement was a progressive step.

She favored the political climate there, which was pro-labor and progressive.

He was an early advocate of environmental protection, expanded Nassau County's park system, recruited college graduates for the police force, and favored progressive zoning regulations to open up housing opportunities to minorities and the poor.

Arbenz together with Arévalo further promoted the progressive social change that characterized the latter's presidency, clearing much of the old restrictions on political parties and labour unions, while also purging the army brass of its remaining pro-Arana officers — one of whom was Colonel Carlos Castillo Armas ; a man who would play a major role in Guatemalan politics in the coming years.

Budgetary policy under Dalton was strongly progressive, as characterised by policies such as increased food subsidies, heavily subsidised rents to council house tenants, the lifting of restrictions of house-building, the financing of national assistance and family allowances, and extensive assistance to rural communities and Development Areas.

When selecting a progressive lens design, an eyecare practitioner will usually ask some lifestyle questions, which coupled with prescription restrictions or recommendations and cost can effectively establish suitability for various models of progressive lens.

Before being daughter, wife, or mother, before being cultured ( a word now bereft both socially and politically of the sheen you children of frontiersmen bestowed on it ), before being sorry for the poor, progressive about public health, and prettily if somewhat imprecisely humanitarian, indeed first and foremost, you were a lady.

So we may conceive the coexistence of the infinite number of universal, apparently momentary states of matter, successive one after another in consciousness, but permanent each on its own basic phase of the progressive frequencies.

Agrarianism concentrates on the fundamental goods of the earth, communities of more limited economic and political scale than in modern society, and on simple living — even when this shift involves questioning the " progressive " character of some recent social and economic developments.

As, however, the deity is represented in an Neo-Attic, archaistic and conventional character, this copy cannot be relied on as giving us much information as to the usual style of Alcamenes, who was almost certainly a progressive and original artist.

The increasing intellectualization of consciousness, initially a progressive direction of evolution, has led to an excessive reliance on abstraction and a loss of contact with both natural and spiritual realities.

The political terms of " modern ", " progressive " or " new " Liberalism began to appear in the mid to late 1880s and became increasingly common to denote the tendency in the Liberal Party to favour an increased role for the state as more important than the classical liberal stress on self-help and freedom of choice.

Within a few years of nationalisation, a number of progressive measures had been carried out which did much to improve conditions in the mines, including better pay, a five-day workweek, a national safety scheme ( with proper standards at all the collieries ), a ban on boys under the age of 16 going underground, the introduction of training for newcomers before going down to the coalface, and the making of pithead baths into a standard facility.

His progressive teaching philosophy, focused on anatomy and live study ( and allowed the female students to partake in segregated studios ), eventually led to his firing as director of the Academy.

Canadian Government policies such as ; publicly funded health care, higher and more progressive taxation, outlawing capital punishment, strong efforts to eliminate poverty, an emphasis on cultural diversity, and most recently legalizing same-sex marriage – are social indicators of Canada's political and cultural values.

The ideology itself, however, came into conflict on both sides of the spectrum with Maoists as well as progressive liberals, culminating with other social factors to cause the 1989 Tiananmen Square Protests.

It has been suggested that Clement's progressive views on gender as set out in the Paedagogus were influenced by Gnosticism.

As a supporter of progressive policies, Hughes was able to play on the popularity of Theodore Roosevelt and weaken the power of the state's conservative Republican officials.

From 1975 to 1979, a Canadian progressive power trio, Rush, released three albums containing sidelong epics, regarded by some as concept albums ( though not actually concept albums by strict definition of the term ; that is, none of the other songs on the album have anything to do with each other or the 20-minute sidelong epic, so there is no pervasive concept or story ).

Another progressive rock act, Genesis, released the concept album The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway in 1974, a double disc that told the story of the street punk Rael.

That single, " Guitar Blues ", was fairly progressive, including as it did, a clarinet solo by Nashville dance band musician Dutch McMillan with Owen Bradley on piano.

She was born on 5 July 1996 and she lived until the age of six, at which point she died from a progressive lung disease.

This established the progressive elimination of customs duties on industrial products, but did not affect agricultural products or maritime trade.

Beginning in 1897 Dewey published a summary of his theory on progressive education in School Journal.

In 1955 the publication of Rudolf Flesch's Why Johnny Can ’ t Read leveled criticism of reading programs at the progressive emphasis on reading in context.

However, today many schools use progressive education methods, such as hands on activities and science experiments in Junior High Schools.

Some forms of education reform promote the adoption of progressive education practices, a more holistic approach which focuses on individual students ' needs and self-expression.

As a nationally acclaimed independent school founded on a progressive, research-based approach, Wildwood emphasizes academic excellence and instills a genuine passion for learning.

* Goddard College-A progressive college founded on the ideals and work of John Dewey.

In the first ' be ' is part of the progressive aspect, used with "- ing " on the verb, and in the second it is part of the passive, as indicated by the perfect participle of a transitive verb.