Sentence examples for in the regressive from inspiring English sources

"If we are lucky," O'Neill says, "we have better and more urgent things to do than indulge in the regressive business of dwelling on the dead".

The government must act counter-cyclically, and do all it can to boost consumer expenditure (for example reversing the hike in the regressive VAT), and support rather than undermine public sector services that affect critical areas like the decision to go back to work.

They used a representation formula for the transition matrix of Jordan reducible systems in the regressive case.

Working back up the hierarchy in 'analysis' (in the regressive sense) could then come to be identified with 'unpacking' or 'decomposing' a concept into its 'constituent' concepts ('analysis' in the decompositional sense).

Analysis is clearly being understood here in the regressive sense as involving the working back from 'what is sought', taken as assumed, to something more fundamental by means of which it can then be established, through its converse, synthesis.

In a paper entitled 'The Regressive Method of Discovering the Premises of Mathematics', dating from 1907, for example, Russell talks of 'analysis' in the regressive sense, i.e., as the process of working back to 'ultimate logical premises', and this as an inductive rather than deductive process.

In the more general case of models that are nonlinear in both the regressive variables and the parameters, either first order approximations can be used, or numerically intensive methods must be used.

Interesting piece by A. O. Scott in the Times (online today, in print Sunday) about a recent spate of children's movies, such as Wes Anderson's "Fantastic Mr. Fox" and Spike Jonze's "Where the Wild Things Are," in which "the regressive infantilism of grown-up comedies and action pictures is answered by a grave precocity".

But the details of his speech confirmed that he had caved in to the regressive, anti-tax G.O.P. orthodoxy that is defined and policed by groups such as Grover Norquist's Americans for Tax Reform, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and the Club for Growth.

In contrast, the regressive part is thinly developed and consists of thin-bedded, fossiliferous shelf mudstones that pass upward to thin, tide-influenced delta-front deposits.

We obtained evidence for a role of TNF-α-mediated AiA during the destruction of the hair follicle (HF) in catagen, the regressive phase of the hair cycle.