Sentence examples for retrograde force from inspiring English sources

If that happens at N.Y.U., said Andrew Delbanco, a professor at Columbia University and the author of "College: What It Was, Is, and Should Be," it "will embolden other presidents to disregard, or at least discount, the faculty as a merely retrograde force".

No stronger retrograde force exists in the World.

The facts show that the U.S. Chamber of Commerce has acted as a powerful retrograde force in the politics of climate change.

They see the collusion of church and state to be a retrograde force that keeps Russia from progressing toward reforming deeply entrenched cultural ideas about the inferiority of women, the marginalization of minorities, the acceptability of authoritarianism, and the reduction of freedom of inquiry and expression.

The microtubule cytoskeleton provides an anterograde force while the actin cytoskeleton provides retrograde force.

On the other hand, if actin cytoskeleton is made of very short filaments (Figure 7B), the growth of many filaments will not face resistance and therefore will not generate retrograde force.

It's going to reinforce the narrative of the most retrograde forces in Cuba that the U.S. relationship is necessarily one of conflict".

Cameron will be accountable to deeply retrograde forces – and they will demand policies that worsen poverty or global warming or prejudice.

This is due, in part, to Sadat's great mistake -- believing that just one decision, making peace with Israel, would trigger a transformation of Arab society, rain money on the region and overwhelm the retrograde forces.

So far, its tactics seem to involve holding Mr. Obama out of the firing line, fashioning the subtext that he appears to be an amenable guy whose overtures toward Russia are being undermined by dark, retrograde forces.

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.