Sentence examples for regressive way from inspiring English sources

It's a wrong-headed and regressive way to allocate education spending.

"Property taxes are the most regressive way we can pay for services".

The remainder was divvied up in a regressive way: better-off communities got more than the poorest.

Nonetheless, the simmering fear spoken of by de Varona, that Title IX may be destined for reinterpretation in a regressive way, is justified.

We have apparently come a long, regressive way from the era of "The Burning Bed," when television became the culture's primary instruction in the horrors of domestic violence.

But some, including tax expert Richard Murphy, are concerned that it is a regressive way of dealing with the problem of excessive sugar in drinks – as the tax will just be passed onto consumers.

But isn't that one of the most regressive ways of responding to a problem?

And given the way it is being paid for — or not paid for — it is far more progressive than Social Security, which is financed in a regressive manner.

There's something regressive about this way of packaging dance.

Still more damningly, to my mind, Mendelsohn claimed that the novel was, in its way, "regressive and repressive," portraying a world in which gay people were "eventually punished for finding happiness".

Many collective responses to the commercially-minded and hugely mainstream genre have been, in a way, regressive.