The workers' and people's movements must aim their struggles against such imperialist retrogression. From LearnThat.org. [yourdictionary.com]
This system of neumes was in some ways a retrogression from the Greek letter system, for the neumes indicated neither definite pitches nor definite tone-lengths. From Wordnik.com. [Music Notation and Terminology] Reference
Though a retrogression is over this year as well as people had some -! more tim e to regulate their spending as well as selling habits, Black Friday 2009 will not be so big. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-11-01] Reference
In some few cases there has been what we must call retrogression of organization. From Wordnik.com. [Introduction to the Science of Sociology] Reference
In some few cases there has been what we must call retrogression of organisation. From Wordnik.com. [IV. Natural Selection; or the Survival of the Fittest. On the Degree to Which Organisation Tends to Advance] Reference
Natural science calls retrogression of species, which shows signs of a former state already overcome, atavism. From Wordnik.com. [Mother Earth, Vol. 1 No. 1, March 1906] Reference
But retrogression was never yet the way of progress. From Wordnik.com. [The Unity of Civilization] Reference
Improvement with Lycurgus means retrogression with us. From Wordnik.com. [Skookum Chuck Fables Bits of History, Through the Microscope] Reference
"I'd say this shows definite traces of retrogression.". From Wordnik.com. [Star Born] Reference
These are the signs of reaction, retreat, and retrogression. From Wordnik.com. [The Struggle for Human Rights] Reference
But the better part of the young man rebelled at this retrogression. From Wordnik.com. [The Evolution of Dodd] Reference
Time cannot be avoided, and there is no retrogression in its course. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12] Reference
We all know we've been slowly slipping into retrogression ever since '63. From Wordnik.com. [Stopover] Reference
But the further development of capitalism has been marked by steady retrogression. From Wordnik.com. [Socialism As It Is A Survey of The World-Wide Revolutionary Movement] Reference
The very building seemed to be the embodiment of retrogression and blind superstition. From Wordnik.com. [The Shadow of the East] Reference
She is the sister of Ramboasalama, and probably represents the party of retrogression. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 1, January, 1864] Reference
Newspaper writing should, therefore, deal with progress rather than with retrogression. From Wordnik.com. [Practical English Composition: Book II. For the Second Year of the High School] Reference
Virginia was in a state of "moral and political retrogression" and proceeded to specify. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 6, 1921] Reference
You go on so fast, so smoothly, so easily on the forward course -- why not in retrogression?. From Wordnik.com. [The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 2, January, 1851] Reference
There is retrogression, as well as progress, where such retrogression is favored by environment. From Wordnik.com. [A Handbook of Ethical Theory] Reference
It would be retrogression to attach oneself today to the ossified formulas of the Enlightenment. From Wordnik.com. [Harvard University Commencement Address (A World Split Apart)] Reference
After all, evolution is not progress and development, but retrogression and deterioration as well. From Wordnik.com. [The Evolution of Man Scientifically Disproved In 50 Arguments] Reference
This brutal, idiotic step of Corson's looks like a final plunge; a fatal fall; a hopeless retrogression. From Wordnik.com. [The Redemption of David Corson] Reference
A striking example of this retrogression of nitrogen seems to be afforded in the case of farmyard manure. From Wordnik.com. [Manures and the principles of manuring] Reference
Did the success of their preaching mean progress or retrogression from the standard of the ancient Roman faith?. From Wordnik.com. [The Oriental Religions in Roman Paganism] Reference
It has other marks of retrogression to methods already old-fashioned in the year 1598, such as the introduction. From Wordnik.com. [The Growth of English Drama] Reference
Moreover, the potential threat we face from them today lies as much in internal weakness or retrogression as external strength. From Wordnik.com. [Remarks By Samuel R Berger To Georgetown University] Reference
The twenty-two years of Haitian rule marked a period of social and economic retrogression for the old Spanish portion of the island. From Wordnik.com. [Santo Domingo A Country with a Future] Reference
But let us proceed to a consideration of the other reasons which Wagner suggests as an explanation of the retrogression of Darwinism. From Wordnik.com. [At the Deathbed of Darwinism A Series of Papers] Reference
From that time, slowly at first, but without retrogression, the membership has risen to its present point, numbering eighteen thousand. From Wordnik.com. [The New England Magazine, Volume 1, No. 2, February, 1886. The Bay State Monthly, Volume 4, No. 2, February, 1886.] Reference
Similar to the retrogression of scientific thought, traced in former chapters, is the corresponding retrogression in philosophic thought. From Wordnik.com. [The Necessity of Atheism] Reference
But as Christianity took control of the world instead of a steady progression of knowledge in this field there was a distinct retrogression. From Wordnik.com. [The Necessity of Atheism] Reference
But so far as our experience goes, this development is not permanent, but is liable to retrogression as soon as the influence of the superior race is removed. From Wordnik.com. [Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject] Reference
Whenever a people from necessity or choice abandon one form of labor for another demanding less skill to triumph over nature, a retrogression in culture is inevitable. From Wordnik.com. [The Prehistoric World; or, Vanished races] Reference
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