Sentence examples for retrogressive step from inspiring English sources

"Separating them out seems to be a retrogressive step, particularly in a small country like Wales where it would make far more sense for resources to be shared".

"Reducing broadcasts to just a few hours a day would be a retrogressive step, leaving us with only commercial Asian stations.

In 1951, when the piece was premiered in Venice, Stravinsky, then in his late 60s, must have known that it would be seen by younger modernists as a retrogressive step.

Today's letter to the BBC Trust, also signed by peers Lord (Kamlesh) Patel and Lord (Navnit) Dholakia, actors Laila Rouass and Sanjeev Bhaskar and BBC Sport presenter Manish Bhasin, describes the decision as a "retrogressive step".

But for Hong Kong to become more like Shenzhen would be a retrogressive step into a more brutal, more lawless form of capitalism, the kind of economics that is coming unstuck in the rest of Asia.

Content junkies who live to bookmark, tag, annotate and share might see this as a retrogressive step — but until we have networked electronic paper as standard, Newspaper Club seems like the next best thing.

It feels like a giant step backwards in time, utterly retrogressive in the context of a national film and TV culture that has diligently and sympathetically portrayed British working-class life in all its complexity, with all its ironies and tragedies, for decades.

But retrogressive it is not.

Eastern observers considered this retrogressive.

A series of stepped headwalls, 25 100 m high, represents the source area of the youngest slide event, which most likely occurred as retrogressive type of failure.

It seemed corny and retrogressive then.