Sentence examples for retrograde from inspiring English sources

Only with dialogue and debate will it be possible to change the current law, which is retrograde and sexist, causing death and suffering to women and their families".

Only a retrograde kind of politics would think like this.

Mundine described Abbott's comments as "silly" and "bizarre", although deliberately provocative, culturally condescending, retrograde and insulting might have been more apt.

These pronouncements – not quite return day trips from enlightenment into the colonial retrograde – coincide with his waning political will to amend the constitution during this parliamentary term so it meaningfully recognises Indigenous Australians.

He claims Cameron is increasingly isolated on this issue and refuses to listen to the concerns of education experts, who describe the policy as retrograde.

I'm suspicious of this tendency to go small rather than go big, to be protective and draw lines and it seems to me to be a retrograde step," he said.

And increasingly, the urge to demonise the colour pink feels as retrograde as a parent insisting upon it – one pushing, one pulling, both arrive at the same stereotype.

Mr Cin says that every project for which he has sought financing from the central government in Ankara has been rejected.A retrograde moveThe mayors' plight reflects the continuing refusal of Turkey's topmost civilian and military rulers to attend to the demands of their country's 12m or so Kurds, nearly a fifth of Turkey's total population.

Or he may have been thwarted by a combination of chaos and retrograde forces within his administration, who are less interested in courting the West than in stopping parliamentary snooping into state-owned enterprises and corrupt monopolies.

In particular, the attitudes of boys to girls and girls to their own bodies: Page 3 supplies invidious comparators and narrow, retrograde stereotypes.The paper itself seems to understand that tits are not for kids, and drops them in its family-friendly weekend editions.

In the case of BNDES, this has been part of a government policy to create Brazilian champions that are big enough to compete abroad.For some opponents this is all retrograde.