Sentence examples for regressive institutions from inspiring English sources
The story that liberals now tell about her is that she has made common cause with Goldman Sachs and the military, when they are the same old regressive institutions with an added gloss of diversity.
The feminist dramas I grew up with featured seemingly insurmountable traditions, backwards institutions, regressive legislation, or old boys' networks.
There has always been an irony to the way Ezra Levant and other media reactionaries would assume the mantle of "rebels" even as they went to bat for any number of profoundly regressive ideas and institutions, or the way they would claim to be the vanguard of a counterculture while they built careers out of being aggressively square.
Perhaps the biggest trend this year is the regressive performance of Western European institutions.
When NATO exploited the Arab Spring to overthrow Gaddafi in 2011, he wrote the consequence would be "disintegration" as a regressive Islamism captured Libya's institutions.
While a documentary emerging out of the United States addressing arranged marriages in India runs the risk of being a product of a Western gaze that dismisses the social institution as "backward", "oppressive" and "regressive", A Suitable Girl actually looks into the nuances of the way things function vis-a-vis arranged marriages and personal freedom.
To counter these regressive trends, it is critical that we nurture the norms, laws and institutions needed to support free expression globally.
Writ large, this system represents an extraordinarily regressive tax--a transfer of scarce assets from poor communities to government institutions and commercial interests.
It would get rid of a highly regressive tax in the form of the TV license and make this anachronistic stalinistic institution finally grow up and earn it's keep rather than living on handouts.
These are highly regressive.
