Sentence examples for retarding the development from inspiring English sources

The effectiveness of facial massage in retarding the development of wrinkles has not been evaluated under carefully controlled conditions.

There is no reason why we should not in a few months overtake the sudden and serious loss that has come upon us, without retarding the development of our general programme.

And, also, what kind of team executive would risk retarding the development of good, young backcourt players like Washington's Richard Hamilton and Courtney Alexander just to satisfy his own curiosity about his skills?

To listen to Russian and American carmakers, though, the flood of used-car imports is retarding the development of a national car industry and threatening to set back efforts by General Motors, Ford and other foreign auto producers to build modern new vehicles in Russia.

THE Environmental Protection Agency's latest proposed tightening of limits on sulfur in gasoline, and its previous rules, will most likely have the perverse consequence of retarding the development of cars running on batteries, advanced biofuels or hydrogen — all promising but expensive technologies that have not become mass-market products.

Both of these great influences, reverence for the classics and fascination with the geometrical-deductive procedures advocated by Descartes must be seen from today's vantage point as among the major influences retarding the development of a science of society comparable to the science of the physical world.

Because the present system tends to depress offense and retard the development of hitting stars.

The lockout has severely retarded the development and progress of these players.

Once again, it has been assisted by the American decision to continue to support the antidemocratic forces that have retarded the development of Egypt.

But the commission chairman said failure to put new federal privacy-protection standards in place would undermine consumer confidence and significantly retard the development of commerce in cyberspace.

Once bogs are formed, they retard the development of efficient drainage by inhibiting water movement and slowing erosion of the soil or rocks on which they rest.