Sentence examples for regressive development from inspiring English sources

The changes taking place may be described as regressive development.

"The new secretary general will have to address a world confronted with increasingly dangerous civil wars, humanitarian and environmental disasters, terrorism, regressive development, economic and financial turmoil, and inequality," they write.

It is unthinkable that anyone would question the legitimacy of these judges on the basis of their religion or descent, and it is hard to think of a more regressive development of Carey's demands than the prospect of that changing.

These regressive developments present a grim warning that the pains of recession are far from ending for the least fortunate Americans.

Soil development is hypothesised to be often non-linear with time and characterised by stages of progressive and regressive evolution caused by upbuilding (formation, profile deepening) and erosion (profile shallowing).

Progressive opponents of the Koch brothers' heavy-handed interventions should be especially skeptical about the LUVE initiative; this regressive initiative would bias development in Santa Monica towards a few big development projects, where the developers could effectively buy elections, jeopardizing necessary mid-size and small housing developments.

A recent Guardian editorial wondered why NGOs were giving the government a free ride over its latest regressive step in international development policy.

His over-reported rivalry with his fellow Conservative has helped conceal the two men's shared political goals, illustrated in Johnson's case by the cultivation of links with powerful media and business interests, a preoccupation with cutting "waste" whatever the consequences and, most importantly, a regressive approach to urban development dignified as "listening to Londoners".

The palynological signatures of these two regressive phases in vegetation development differ with regard to the expansion of pioneer trees, the abundances and rates of change of temperate taxa, and the presence of frost-sensitive taxa.

We assumed that the mire sediments would reflect these phases, that elemental composition (major and minor compounds) and rare earth elements (REEs) would allow us to differentiate past processes and that progressive and regressive phases of soil development can be discerned.

Recent news events have implicated mitochondria in at least one case of regressive autism, following normal development.