Sentence examples for retrogressive direction from inspiring English sources

I would like to congratulate the rapporteur for his work, but I have to respectfully disagree with him with regard to the two amendments from the Committee on Legal Affairs which seemed to me, and to many on my committee, to be pushing in exactly the opposite, retrogressive direction to that of this proposal.

The Department of Health's prior ethical guidelines [ 3] appear sufficient whilst the new changes appear to be inconsistent with other guidance and are retrogressive.

Certain factions within feminism also regarded any direct representation of the female body to be retrogressive.

But retrogressive it is not.

Eastern observers considered this retrogressive.

It seemed corny and retrogressive then.

The Taliban, for all their retrogressive conservatism, are pragmatic Afghans.

Yet they do not appear retrogressive.

It wasn't new at all but romantically retrogressive.

To true believers the "Woman" paintings were profoundly retrogressive.

That's retrogressive (re t fin s (all rev).).