Sentence examples for a very retrograde step from inspiring English sources

And this, well, it shows a very retrograde step.

The Rev Jeremy Oakes, the vicar of Canford Cliffs and Sandbanks parish, described the wealthy tag as a caricature and said the move was "a very retrograde step" for the community of 12,500 people, whose homes overlook Poole Harbour.

Gerald Adler, a retired academic, told EducationGuardian: "It is a very, very retrograde step.

I don't expect the BBC to take much notice as when a new system is introduced the proposers see it as prestige and their baby, in this case it has been a very much retrograde step.

Almost everyone with any experience of resolving cross-border civil disputes agrees that a return to the old way of working would very obviously be a retrograde step.

Reducing broadcasts to just a few hours a day would be a retrograde step leaving us with only the commercial Asian stations.

With country put on the back burner, and soul and R&B left in Memphis, what was left was very classy, very clean white pop perfect for the Las Vegas crowd, but a definite retrograde step for Elvis".

It said in a late response to Babcock's statement that a tie-up would represent a "retrograde step" in VT's strategy.

A postdoc would seem like a retrograde step.

The creation of a border for us is a retrograde step".

My own view is that the British remain essentially conservative with a very small "c" and, other things being equal, would balk at such a retrograde step.