"progressive retreat" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
This phrase can be used to describe a gradual or slow withdrawal from a situation. For example, "The company adopted a progressive retreat from the industry after their product lost popularity."
The new supreme court justice identifies a progressive retreat in the non-justiciability theory over the past decade.
The "centralization phenomenon" (CP) is the progressive retreat of referred pain towards the spinal midline in response to repeated movement testing (a McKenzie evaluation).
The Calabrian Arc is an arcuate tectonic feature, formed during the Neogene and Pleistocene, as a consequence of the progressive retreat of the Ionian subduction system.
Environmental experts have expressed cautious hope that a basin-wide approach advocated by Modi, involving India's northern states and neighbouring Nepal and Bangladesh, would help address issues like reduced meltwater flows into the river caused by the progressive retreat of Himalayan glaciers.
Progressives retreated, hoping for a liberal Pontiff to arrive soon and revive the world-embracing Vatican II spirit.
We were already in crisis". Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass). vowed steadfast resistance to President Donald Trump's agenda in a speech at the Congressional Progressive Caucus retreat in Baltimore on Saturday.
In response to the high-tech privatisation of social services, it's tempting for progressives to retreat to unabashed nostalgia.
In order to calculate the progressive advance or retreat of glacial masses, they ascertain the age of organic materials associated with glacial moraines by means of isotopic analyses.
The loss of the ice shelf might imply a reduction of the buttressing of the ice sheet, leading to enhanced ice discharge, progressive thinning and retreat of the grounding line in dependence of the bedrock geometry12.
None of which, by the way, would require Obama to compromise his progressive principles or retreat on his policy agenda.
Doing so disenfranchised the political voices of millions of American voters and allowed progressive minds to retreat to the safety of their own philosophical echo chambers.
