Sentence examples for relatively regressive from inspiring English sources

Because of this relatively regressive nature, payroll tax cuts tend to be a more effective stimulus than typical income tax cuts – and thus are a more effective way for Washington to respond to recessions.

The available evidence on the impact of hyperinflation on inequality in Argentina suggests a relatively large regressive (and thus inequality increasing) effect.

Consequently, relatively reductive or regressive stasis of morphological characters in the gossypii group made them more morphologically similar to one another than to other species-group.

Yet if (for example) the crime drop has been most marked for those who already suffered relatively little crime (as with regressive taxation) one would be concerned about the disproportionate burden which the most victimised continue to suffer.

The one time Deepika played a relatively nonconformist character was in the eminently regressive Cocktail.

The recommendations follow calls from the European Commission earlier this month for the UK government to reform the "regressive" council tax system, as taxes are relatively higher on low-value homes than high-value ones.

On public spending we find that some services, such as schools, have been relatively protected from cuts but that overall fiscal consolidation has been regressive with the bottom 20% making a bigger contribution than all but the top 20% and an inter-generational injustice which sees better-off pensioners protected but families with children bearing two-thirds of spending cuts.

We propose that the Kiwi visual system has undergone adaptive regressive evolution driven by the trade-off between the relatively low rate of gain of visual information that is possible at low light levels, and the metabolic costs of extracting that information.

On microscopy, regressive changes are present in all, with the vermis relatively spared.

These limestones also comprise several microfacies, organized in a transgressive-regressive cycle with the maximum flooding surface positioned on relatively deep-water carbonates.

The relatively low amount of T-box regulation in these species could be the result of regressive evolution, a process that was suggested to be the underlying mechanism for the large loss of functionally active genes in S. thermophilus [ 54].