Sentence examples for retarded for from inspiring English sources

It defiantly refused to recognize "a 'mental retardation' bright-line exemption" even for those who "legitimately qualify" as mentally retarded for other purposes.

But it upheld the determination that Mr. Wood was not retarded for the purposes of Atkins.

Children and the severely retarded, for example, lack rationality, but they are undeniably human.

If you develop a preference for green plantains, just keep them in the refrigerator; ripening can be retarded for weeks with no loss of quality.

The term "retarded," for children deemed to have limited ability, comes from the early-20th-century practice of holding back (retarding) those who read below grade level.

Many a well-meaning person has innocently used words like "Negro" and "retarded," for example, and one is long gone, the other (I hope) is on the way out.

"But they just wouldn't ignite – they're already fire-retarded for use as flooring".

Killing retarded people for the same crimes for which we, as a nation, kill nonretarded people is no more a "grotesque violation of contemporary and civilized standards o decency" than killing anyone for any crime.

And when the slur resulted in an uproar, he apologized -- not to the N.A.A.C.P., but to "retarded people" for mistakenly associating them with the N.A.A.C.P.

The results indicated that suppressing the expression of the gene retarded flowering for 16 d in rice with the plant height and grain length significantly increasing whereas other important agronomic traits observed remained unchanged apparently.

It doesn't matter "whether the church gives a file a particular name," judges ruled in one 1988 Pennsylvania case, ordering the disclosure of the file of a priest who allegedly molested a "mildly retarded" boy for nearly a decade.