Sentence examples for to retrogressive from inspiring English sources

And, remarkably, he has achieved this without ever resorting to retrogressive revivalism.

However, reworking and redeposition of the charcoal and daub bearing sediments due to retrogressive erosion during the last millennia cannot be excluded.

Artists the world over have been (rightfully) up in arms since last month's unfortunate Brexit decision, marking the UK's decisive return to retrogressive and xenophobic politicking.

This structural degradation indicates that landscape-scale forest loss strongly determines the trajectory of the local forest structure, pushing forests to a retrogressive succession process, which is more likely to occur in deforested landscapes and can lead to functional forest erosion.

Certain factions within feminism also regarded any direct representation of the female body to be retrogressive.

In the past, it was possible to defend retrogressive architecture by asserting that the public found it pleasing.

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.

Together, these correspond morphologically to terrestrial "retrogressive thaw slumps" which are landforms typical of thermokarst environments.

Here we describe (i) a morphological evolution of small-sized polygons within the depressions, from low-centered to high-centered, that facilitates one's understanding of depression growth and development; and (ii) occurrence of v-shaped alcoves, failure cracks and semicircular hollows that point to a retrogressive degradation of the pole-facing slopes of depressions.

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.

I'm always willing to cop to my somewhat retrogressive knee-jerk reactions, so here goes.