Sentence examples for retards progress from inspiring English sources

"Granting patent protection to advances that would occur in the ordinary course without real innovation retards progress," Justice Kennedy said.

"Granting patent protection to advances that would occur in the ordinary course without real innovation retards progress," wrote Justice Anthony Kennedy in his opinion for the court.

The fact is it's happening, and to pretend otherwise only retards progress.

"Granting patent protection to advances that would occur in the ordinary course without real innovation retards progress,'' Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote for the court.

And the rejections are more than a breach of professional etiquette; a majority of academic geneticists say that data hoarding retards progress in the field.

Granting patent protection to advances that would occur in the ordinary course without real innovation retards progress and may, for patents combining previously known elements, deprive prior inventions of their value or utility.

"They've been able to retard progress and competition".

Kari Stefansson, chief executive of deCODE, argues that privacy advocates are retarding progress.

This result, together with a lack of capital and limited educational attainment, has retarded progress in ejido agriculture.

So JT has been hit where it hurts – in the pocket, but that's not been enough to retard progress on his 11-bedroom, four-bathroom house.

Mr. Wolosky said the war in Iraq, which he said he supported, "may retard progress on these crucial issues" by angering governments in the Middle East and elsewhere.