Progressive used in a sentence

Progressive in a sentence as a noun

I'm as progressive as it comes in this regard, but please - "separate the women from the girls"?

We should be taxing the people who own the corporations, or are paid huge salaries by them -- that is, if you believe in progressive taxation.

As a progressive younger person who has been swimming in internet culture for 15 years now, I find my attitude, wants, needs, and desires are almost completely left out of pop culture.

The body can be considered as a system of many redundant components, with aging as the result of progressive unrepaired damage to those components.

Progressive in a sentence as an adjective

Arab nationalism was against current foreign policy of Saudi Arabia and was in fact pretty secular and very progressive for its time.

As a former Catholic, when I read lines like that I can't help but be struck with the observation that this seems to be a feminist/progressive version of confessing your sins in order to be absolved of them.

"The question is this: is this doing well on HN because HN is full of progressive-minded feminists upvoting a neat DIY project on its merits, or is it doing well on HN because it serves as fodder for the nerd-girl fantasies of a primarily male readership?I really think this is an important point that often gets missed on male dominated social news sites.