It is an unfair and inaccurate slander against Israel, calculated to retard rather than advance peace negotiations.
But the new stance cheered those who believe that such patents retard rather than spur medical progress and interfere with people's access to information about themselves.
Given the current scandals involving steroids and human growth hormone, Agassi's infraction seems minor, even quaint, characterized as it was by late-night binges that more likely retarded rather than "enhanced" his match-day performances.
The results sometimes restate the obvious, but just as often they are new and provocative.Most important, he shows unambiguously what observers of elections in poor countries have long suspected: that on their own, unless they are held in the context of a functioning democracy, elections can retard rather than advance a country's progress.
In short, when used carelessly, the labels 'rationalist' and 'empiricist,' as well as the slogan that is the title of this essay, 'Rationalism vs. Empiricism,' can retard rather than advance our understanding.
Some have suggested that collaboration with publics will retard rather than accelerate innovations and that lack of putative expertise, consensus on certain values and interests, as well as potential marginalization of certain groups of citizens, could limit the practicality of true public engagement [ 57].
For some cold-tolerant wild type plants and their transgenic lines, cold stress (4°C treatment) only retards growth rather than causing lethal damage.
This is important because it is retarded linear growth rather than wasting in the first two years that has the strongest association with infant/young child morbidity/mortality and with non-communicable disease later in life.
Indeed, it is possible that in a context of semantic priming, that is, by providing a semantic clue to activate a specific memory link, the uniqueness of proper name information promotes rather than retards the fast retrieval of the second item of a pair embodying a unique referent (e.g. ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER).
The idea that wine tasted dry (who ever heard of a thing?) and could, after 5 p.m., actually stimulate rather than retard an appetite was a bombshell.
