Sentence examples for retrogressive force from inspiring English sources

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

There is little danger of encountering anything like official propaganda, since the Arab novelist stands, almost by definition — as a thinker, as a conduit of intellectual life — in opposition to the retrogressive forces in the modern Arab state.

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.

This has had a retrogressive effect on the girl child education interventions.

Now, as throughout history, organised Anousia has repeatedly been dangerous, destabilising, and persistently retrogressive, and as one of the most backward forces in today's world it ought not to be supported from public funds in gaining access to children: yet our own government is actively promoting it.

(Sounds like a description of retrogressive Republicans in 2012; when the Violence Against Women Act passed the Senate on Tuesday, Rubio voted against it).

But the legislation is disturbingly retrogressive, and has fed a wave of anti-gay violence.

But retrogressive it is not.

Eastern observers considered this retrogressive.

It seemed corny and retrogressive then.