"retrogression of" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It means to go backwards or regress in progress or development. Example: The retrogression of technology has made it difficult for the older generation to keep up with modern trends.
Two factors mitigate against complete retrogression of metamorphic rocks, however, during their return to Earth's surface.
That could be seen as a "retrogression" of African-American rights, which is prohibited by the Voting Rights Act.
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When the DeLay plan was submitted to the Justice Department for approval, career officials in the Voting Section produced an internal legal opinion of seventy-three pages, with seventeen hundred and fifty pages of supporting documents, arguing that the plan should be rejected as a retrogression of minority rights.
In 1959 it was possible for Mahfouz to serialise this novel in the Cairo daily newspaper Al-Ahram, although its publication in book form was banned, but 35 years later he was left hanging onto life with a knife stuck in his neck on account of it: such has been the radicalisation, the retrogression of society in the interim period.
The retrogression of humanity itself to animality was not far in the future with 'a swinish multitude'.
I still live fairly high on the hog, but it takes an unfaltering spirit of retrogression to accomplish it.
But in truth, life under the coalition has been a disappointing railroad of retrogression for people with disabilities.
The dismal situation in New York does not, of course, excuse the retrogression on voting rights that has taken place elsewhere in recent years, almost of all it initiated by Republicans.
Today's decision, written by Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, amounted to a refinement of the definition of retrogression, holding that a balancing of factors, not just the number of minority voters in a given district, was necessary to judge a plan.
The report states: "There have been setbacks, slippage and in some cases real retrogression, some of it serious enough to threaten earlier gains".
