If you do not follow the doctor's orders, your condition will retrogress. From LearnThat.org.
Verb (used without object) : to retrogress to infantilism. From Dictionary.com.
The whole area will retrogress into chaotic conditions. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript May 25, 2006] Reference
Should we continue to stagnate or retrogress while the rest of the world moves forward?. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
Why did they believe that with a brigade of mercenaries, no matter how many imperialists they could count on, could make the history of our nation retrogress?. From Wordnik.com. [5TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE PLAYA GIRON VICTORY] Reference
Naturally, we must not retrogress in agriculture because, in reality, agriculture is one of the fields in which we must make a greater effort for productivity. From Wordnik.com. [CASTRO SPEAKS AT 14TH CTC CONGRESS CLOSING SESS] Reference
I'm not advocating that women retrogress to the brainless housewives of the '50s who spent afternoons baking macaroni sculptures and keeping Betty Crocker files. From Wordnik.com. [The Failure Of Feminism] Reference
By contrast, he writes, "when living standards stagnate or decline, most societies make little if any progress toward any of these goals, and in all too many instances they plainly retrogress.". From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-07-01] Reference
All six called for peaceful and democratic elections with the leader of the main opposition Ernest Koroma of the All People's Congress (APC) stressing that "the polls will put Sierra Leone in a position to advance or retrogress". From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
And in 1985, when Grace Bumbry was a sensation as Bess in a Metropolitan Opera production, she slammed the opera: "I thought it beneath me, I felt I had worked far too hard, that we had come far too far to have to retrogress to 1935.". From Wordnik.com. [Jesse Kornbluth: An African-American Woman Wrote To Me: The Help Makes Us Look Ignorant & One-Dimensional] Reference
We don't stand still or retrogress; we keep going on and up. From Wordnik.com. [The Drums of Jeopardy] Reference
Would I could retrogress over the devious and enchanting itinerary. From Wordnik.com. [Shandygaff] Reference
The more things change the more they remain the same or even retrogress. From Wordnik.com. [You Missed This] Reference
They begin in Piccadilly, and progress, or rather retrogress, through Leicester Square on to. From Wordnik.com. [Regeneration] Reference
But, as a matter of fact, there are species which are arrested; there are some that retrogress. From Wordnik.com. [Evolution créatrice. English] Reference
Enterprise, genius, and art, are impelled to move onward here; with him they are constrained to retrogress. From Wordnik.com. [Cause and contrast : an essay on the American crisis,] Reference
The plantations which now grow golden harvests are to retrogress to their pristine condition of barren wildness. From Wordnik.com. [Cause and contrast : an essay on the American crisis,] Reference
But it must be a slow, and occasionally, an interrupted progress, after a sad retrogress of nearly twelve years. From Wordnik.com. [Reminiscences of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and Robert Southey]
It may after a time remain stationary, or, in rare instances, retrogress; as a rule, however, it is progressive. From Wordnik.com. [Essentials of Diseases of the Skin Including the Syphilodermata Arranged in the Form of Questions and Answers Prepared Especially for Students of Medicine] Reference
In extremely exceptional instances the disease, after involving a small part, may retrogress and recovery take place. From Wordnik.com. [Essentials of Diseases of the Skin Including the Syphilodermata Arranged in the Form of Questions and Answers Prepared Especially for Students of Medicine] Reference
Another reason why he began the undeclared hunger strike is that he wants to “mourn for retrogress of democracy in Taiwan. â€. From Wordnik.com. [China Post Online - Taiwan , News , Taiwan newspaper] Reference
The reason was in oil and gas we had come out with big pool and in the pool we have found that the gas which is there is a retrogress gas. From Wordnik.com. [Moneycontrol Top Headlines] Reference
Progress in bulk, complexity or activity involves retrogress in fertility; and progress in fertility involves retrogress in bulk, complexity, or activity. From Wordnik.com. [The World's Greatest Books — Volume 14 — Philosophy and Economics] Reference
But crises can also make countries become more insular and more xenophobic, more prone to search not for innovative solutions but for convenient scapegoats, to retrogress rather than progress. From Wordnik.com. [Asian Tribune] Reference
Nigeria Labour Congress has noted that unless the vacuum in decision making that currently pervades the country is plugged, the country would continue to retrogress, affirming market have kept the textile sector on its toes. From Wordnik.com. [WN.com - Articles related to Rice Mill Owners Suffer From Increasing Taxes] Reference
From virtualization solutions to "business continuity" solutions that are little more than a monitoring application and backup software, IT vendors attempt to frame the discussion around a business problem yet rapidly retrogress back to selling bits, bytes and shiny boxes. From Wordnik.com. [TechRepublic Blogs] Reference
With the endurance of the most aggressive aspects of modern societies: the growth of social inequalities, consumeristic frenzy, destruction of nature, militarization of international affairs, the confiscation of public power by the market and productivism, the violent appropriation of the natural resources, and democracy retrogress. From Wordnik.com. [P2P Foundation] Reference
The carefully engineered test bed for North Korea’s nascent nuclear missile force would be destroyed, and its attempt to retrogress to Cold War threats thwarted. From Wordnik.com. [Firedoglake » Net Neutrality: Crunch Time] Reference
It asks itself if it is not idle to hope for any great progress of Humanity toward perfection, and whether, when it advances in one respect, it does not retrogress in some other, by way of compensation: whether advance in civilization is not increase of selfishness: whether freedom does not necessarily lead to license and anarchy: whether the destitution and debasement of the masses does not inevitably follow increase of population and commercial and manufacturing prosperity. From Wordnik.com. [Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry] Reference
That ends this shortchange retrogress misery. From Wordnik.com. [Eschaton] Reference
The selection of any candidate based on race is more like an unwelcome retrogress to the days of "Council Wars" and when Chicago infamously became known as ". From Wordnik.com. [chicagotribune.com - News] Reference
Let us not retrogress to it in this crisis. From Wordnik.com. [Decision at Doona]
"retrogress". From Wordnik.com. [Martin Luther King - Nobel Lecture] Reference
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