Sentence examples for it's retrogressive from inspiring English sources

The level of unapologetic conjecture I've encountered lately isn't just frustrating, it's retrogressive, unprecedented and absolutely terrifying.

And these experts thought it was retrogressive in its reliance on American universities, faith-based organizations and nongovernmental organizations, whose ability to pay higher salaries could drain workers from local public health systems that should be reinforced instead.

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If the setting is retro, many of its values are retrogressive.

The most famous and influential ballet dancer of all time, Anna Pavlova, may have been retrogressive in her tastes, but it can be argued that she had more immediate impact on the world than any choreographer has ever had; she got it to look at ballet.

Cavanagh said while the arrest was lawful under NT legislation, the paperless arrest scheme was "retrogressive" and unjustifiable preventative detention, and recommended it be repealed.

But most disappointing of all, for readers, is that commenters don't, as literary critics say, read an article against itself to show how, for example, an argument framed as incendiary is in fact banal, or one that's meant to be feminist is retrogressive, or one that touts its originality is a knockoff.

It's also clear that most versions of the flat tax — such as Malcolm S. Forbes's suggestions, in 1996, or Herman Cain's "9-9-9," in 2012 — have enormous potential for unfairness; for being retrogressive, by hurting the poor more than the rich; for setting off calls for value-added taxes, which might be more retrogressive; and for simply being ploys to grant favors to various interest groups.

Because Jaguar got a new owner last year, it recently launched the XF saloon; it has just launched a whole new range of engines (thus rendering those first XFs obsolescent), and soon it will reveal a new XJ saloon as futuristic as the current one is retrogressive.

And a lot of radicals are not going to like it, because most radicals believe that to talk about God and the Devil is retrogressive.' Add up the Jews, the fundamentalists, the radicals and what he calls the Acumenarians', an especially low form of critical life in Mailer 's world, and he's just about to alienate most of America.

Certain factions within feminism also regarded any direct representation of the female body to be retrogressive.