Sentence examples for they retard from inspiring English sources

Did they retard language skills?

Do they retard the growth of productivity?

Both additives lower the stoichiometric number of the anodic oxide layer, ie they retard the oxidation of PbO to PbO2.

Once bogs are formed, they retard the development of efficient drainage by inhibiting water movement and slowing erosion of the soil or rocks on which they rest.

But the major argument made against these plants is that they retard progress on recycling by locking councils into long term contracts that commit them to supply a certain amount of waste and pay the incinerator for the service.

Copper-based hull coatings are intended to be antifouling in that they retard the growth of algae, barnacles and tubeworms; but alternatives exist that can eliminate the harm that copper contamination does to marine organisms.

In doing so, they retarded political development on the island for a generation.

These MIT scientists wanted to dismantle institutional barriers that schools had erected over time — the rules, traditions, and culture — because they retarded student learning.

They retarded the growth of the labor movement and tried to block efforts to unionize in the South, suspecting, rightly, that unions were motors of racial integration.

But until this so-called civilized nation of ours gets around to abolishing capital punishment altogether, then every group we can save -- be they retarded, young, left-handed, club-footed or red-headed -- is a step taken in the right direction.

The results showed that HA accelerated the rate constants (k2) of almost all PAH uptakes to the nd-SPME fibers compared with the solutions without the matrix; the combined matrices of nC60 and HA significantly promoted the k2 of highly hydrophobic PAHs (logKOW 5.81 6.20), whereas they retarded that of less hydrophobic ones (logKOW 3.82 4.63) (p < 0.05).