He had in mind a retrogression in the manners of American democracy, which showed in a new contempt for the meaning of the words "all men are created equal".
Ms Rolnik told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that she had received "hundreds of testimonies" and said there was a "danger of a retrogression in the right to adequate housing" in the UK.
In utilizing §5 to require States to create majority minority districts whenever possible, the Department expanded its statutory authority beyond Congress' intent for §5: to insure that no voting procedure changes would be made that would lead to a retrogression in the position of racial minorities with respect to their effective exercise of the electoral franchise.
Both cases came on the heels of a 2013 Supreme Court decision invalidating a key provision of the Voting Rights Act that required some states with a history of discrimination to not draw districts in such a way that created a "retrogression" in minorities' ability to elect their preferred candidates.
That could be seen as a "retrogression" of African-American rights, which is prohibited by the Voting Rights Act.
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.
This analysis confirms a dreamy suspicion we've long entertained that two or perhaps two and a half is the witching age, after which a retrogression in charm and talent sets in and that a well-advised movie infant would do well to retire at three, happy with its memories of success.
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.
"To many of us, the black hat is a throwback, a retrogression," he said.
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.
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.
