Sentence examples for retrograde by from inspiring English sources
Photograph: Billy Farrell/Rex Features Updated at 8.31am GMT 8.26am GMT Retrograde by James Blake is at 13.
Its recently amended Constitution, which gives extensive powers to the governing prince, has been denounced as dangerously retrograde by two committees in the Council of Europe.
This judgment was overturned the next year, but it prompted Mizer to fulminate, in his magazine columns, against government intrusions on "private morals" — a courageous endeavor, even if some of his rhetoric sounds retrograde by today's standards.
The nominees shortlisted in the best contemporary song are Latch, by Disclosure featuring Sam Smith, which is up against Retrograde by electronic music producer and singer-songwriter James Blake, and Kemosabe by art rock outfit Everything Everything.
Funding Circle's method includes a step that would be considered retrograde by fintech purists: a flesh-and-blood credit agent from the company speaks to every new borrower before a loan is disbursed.
The Arab Spring was followed, retrograde, by an Arab Winter.
The ionic cross-linking and starch retrograded by method 1 contributed to the improvement of hardness and cohesiveness of hydrogels while the dual cross-linking and starch retrograded by method 2 favored the adhesiveness.
The centuries after Hippocrates' death were marked as much by retrograde movement as by further advancement.
Ella's absurdly thin waist is scantly more anatomically plausible when placed on an actual human body, while her quest for a form of liberation defined by marriage to a wealthy, powerful stranger feels retrograde even by Disney standards.
Hyman's lordly expectations of what he was due as the family patriarch were retrograde, even by the standards of the time.
In real life, expectations remain equally retrograde, underpinned by an assumption of women's – and only women's – obsession with matrimony: "Bag that man whatever the cost, gals!", delivered in a "just tellin' it like it is" tone.
