Sentence examples for retrogressive effect from inspiring English sources

Or the fact that a separate, three-judge panel had already ruled in 2012 that the law, if implemented, would have a "retrogressive effect" on blacks and Latinos -- that is, it would effectively roll back the advances they had made since the passage of the Voting Rights Act.

He further concluded that the higher rate of reproduction among blacks had a retrogressive effect on evolution.

"The state has failed to satisfy its burden of proving that those changes will not have a retrogressive effect on minority votes," the ruling said.

The court said, "Undisputed record evidence demonstrates that racial minorities in Texas are disproportionally likely to live in poverty and, because SB 14 will weigh more heavily on the poor, the law will likely have retrogressive effect," reducing the number of minority voters.

Findings include an initial retrogressive effect on greenfield subsidiaries' technological evolution as a result of competence-creating overlaps, which, over time diminishes to become positive after more than a decade of overlap exposure.

In 2003, the Supreme Court held in Georgia v. Ashcroft that courts should not determine that a new redistricting plan has a retrogressive effect solely because the plan decreases the number of minority-majority districts.

Thus, the retrogressive effects in our study point to a reduced training maintenance at follow-up and may indicate the relevance of boosting sessions for stabilizing treatment effects.

That legislative instrument turned out to be another retrogressive force in the South, albeit a more benign one than segregation was.

The slide escarpments are up to 30 40 m high and 8 km long, with up to 20×106 m3 of sediment released during a single event of retrogressive sliding.

Such redesign is not only unnecessary, it is all too often also retrogressive, leading to things that work less effectively than those they were designed to replace.

Black representation in the House would be immediately increased, and a majority of both black and white MPs would have to approve retrogressive legislation; blacks would thus wield an effective veto "as long as they voted solidly together", Robert Blake comments.