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.
That could be seen as a "retrogression" of African-American rights, which is prohibited by the Voting Rights Act.
This means that in this interval, we found the greatest increase in technological change whereas, in contrast, the greatest decrease is observed from 2009 to 2010, when the technological change switches from 1.100 to 0.957, indicating that European farmers were not able to raise their efficiency levels (a retrogression of the production frontier).
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".
"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.
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.
Today's decision, written by Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, amounted to a refinement of the definition of retrogression, holding that a balancing of factors, not just the number of minority voters in a given district, was necessary to judge a plan.
