Sentence examples for Retard progress from inspiring English sources

"They've been able to retard progress and competition".

Sociologists of science point out that the great advances of one generation may often retard progress in the next.

So JT has been hit where it hurts – in the pocket, but that's not been enough to retard progress on his 11-bedroom, four-bathroom house.

Mr. Wolosky said the war in Iraq, which he said he supported, "may retard progress on these crucial issues" by angering governments in the Middle East and elsewhere.

But the major argument made against these plants is that they retard progress on recycling by locking councils into long term contracts that commit them to supply a certain amount of waste and pay the incinerator for the service.

But the costs of marketing and recouping investment in bespoke drugs for a tiny pool of patients do retard progress in the pharmaceutical industry; a law that clarified and highlighted physicians' right to innovate on the wards instead would surely give the frontiers of progress a useful nudge.

Kari Stefansson, chief executive of deCODE, argues that privacy advocates are retarding progress.

"Granting patent protection to advances that would occur in the ordinary course without real innovation retards progress," Justice Kennedy said.

This result, together with a lack of capital and limited educational attainment, has retarded progress in ejido agriculture.

"Granting patent protection to advances that would occur in the ordinary course without real innovation retards progress and may … deprive prior inventions of their value," wrote Justice Anthony Kennedy.

Preoccupation with the issue has retarded progress in the field by diverting research away from empirical questions, many of which can be addressed with comparative data.