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to regressive

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That tends to return, revert or regress.

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And giving prominent platforms to regressive rape apologists isn't helping.

All of this can reduce the most jaded New Yorker to regressive giggling.

It is a virus that can reduce grown men and women to regressive catatonia or enlarge them to the limits of cupidity and covetousness.

They are aghast at arbitrary change being thrust upon their areas – from pushing new trans-council structures and elected mayors to regressive housing and planning reform – without any discussion.

Her husband grabs him and says: "That ashtray happens to be my wife!" While Jones was part of the artistic avant-garde – along with Royal College of Art contemporaries Patrick Caulfield and David Hockney – the sculptures clearly appealed to regressive patriarchal taste, which was threatened by the new feminism.

Shamelessly sweet but not too sweet, more unctuous than peanut butter but with the same curiously sexy capacity for gluing the jaws together, and intensely chocolate-flavored but with a peculiar pillowy mildness that appeals to regressive urges, it is made to be spread on bread but more often ends up being eaten in hasty spoonfuls, straight from the jar.

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So the Bush White House supports aid for Detroit — but only if it is linked to looser (regressive) fuel-efficiency standards.

transgressive-to-regressive sequences that can be related directly to the stacking and southward displacement of successive basement-cover thrust sheets.

The political movement seeks to use local government to change regressive economic policies to policies that will work for the betterment of the people of the city.

So it seems to me to be regressive".

A matrix function from to is said to be regressive if for all, and denote the set of regressive functions from to.

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