Sentence examples for retrogressed from inspiring English sources

The judge noted that while the city's other uniformed services "have made rapid progress integrating black members into their ranks, the Fire Department has stagnated and at times retrogressed".

But it doesn't absolve Heritage; all it shows is that much of macroeconomics, especially but not only at Chicago, has retrogressed intellectually, to such an extent that famous economists repeat 1930-vintage fallacins in perfect ignorance of the hard intellectual work that showed, three generations ago, that they are indeed fallacies.

Basing his theory on a scientific law, the dissipation of energy, he described civilization as having retrogressed through four stages: the religious, mechanical, electrical, and ethereal.

For the first time in a decade, casino revenue revenue here last year dropped behind that of Las Vegas, and some say the reason is that the casinos in Nevada have reinvented themselves as family friendly with no shortage of activities and attractions, while those in Atlantic City have, to a certain extent, retrogressed.

To the retrogressed infantile executive it represents not only security, but the threat of future sibling rivalry.

From this state the soul could neither advance nor retrogress.

If the economy is improving strongly in the months before an election, incumbents do well; if it's stagnating or retrogressing, they do badly.

It is, of course, an absurd proposition; when Heritage propounded this doctrine, it was also retrogressing intellectually by at least 80 years.

Am I then retrogressing ?

Instead of improving disability rights, they are retrogressing.

We ask Carnegie Hall to take out all their orchestra seats for the summer and put in tables and give pop concerns; we ask Mayor O'Brien to wrest the Casino away from the millionaires and let us commoners drink under the wistaria; we ask the Brevoort to remodel its front again and retrogress in favor of sidewalk tables.