Sentence examples for a retrogression from inspiring English sources

"To many of us, the black hat is a throwback, a retrogression," he said.

That could be seen as a "retrogression" of African-American rights, which is prohibited by the Voting Rights Act.

After Ptolemy's day there even appears to have been a retrogression, as exemplified by the Roman trend away from the mathematical approach to mapping.

One thing I haven't seen emphasized, however, is the extent to which the whole concept of having to "mine" Bitcoins by expending real resources amounts to a drastic retrogression — a retrogression that Adam Smith would have scorned.

When the DeLay plan was submitted to the Justice Department for approval, career officials in the Voting Section produced an internal legal opinion of seventy-three pages, with seventeen hundred and fifty pages of supporting documents, arguing that the plan should be rejected as a retrogression of minority rights.

The future looked bright... Screen violence, we might notice, has close affinities with the weapons business, and, to borrow an aging phrase from the nuclear-arms community, is often technology-led....O Mentions "Bullitt" (1968), which still has an unsurpassed car-chase, and "Schindler's List," which represents a retrogression in violence.

"Rationality belongs to the individual," Laclau writes, characterising the anti-populist thesis, and when the individual takes part in a crowd or a mass movement they are subject to the most criminal or beastly elements of that group and undergo a "biological retrogression" to a less enlightened state of being.

There has been a "deep-seated stigma associated with handcarts, as they are considered a technological retrogression," said Peter Njenga, an Africa-based analyst for the International Forum for Rural Transport Development, in an e-mail message.

As compared to traditional RRA treatments, a lower retrogression temperature and a longer retrogression and re-aging time were employed.

He continued, "On Syria, of course, it has been a continuous retrogression from first statements within a couple of months of the situation in Syria when President Obama said Assad must go until today".

In this work, an aluminium 6061 alloy was subjected to a designed retrogression and reageing (RRA) heat treatment, and also coated with diamond-like carbon (DLC) interphase film by electrodeposition, in order to assess the corrosion protection by potentiodynamic polarization testing when the samples are exposed to a simulated sea environment.