The reformer who was so recently "retrogressive" had now become a rival in reform.    From Wordnik.com.  [Socialism As It Is A Survey of The World-Wide Revolutionary Movement] Reference

He is only devoid of cultural cachet or culturally "retrogressive" if, as a culture, we dismiss these personal qualities and refuse to see them as part of our future.    From Wordnik.com.  [Does Sen. Obama Transcend Old Paradigms of Race?] Reference

INLD secretary general & Rajya Sabha MP Ajay Singh Chautala described the step as 'retrogressive' & yet another flip-flopping in the vital field of education.    From Wordnik.com.  [PunjabNewsline News] Reference

United States a permeating retrogressive influence.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Brief History of Panics and Their Periodical Occurrence in the United States] Reference

This is a law inherent in all retrogressive organisations.    From Wordnik.com.  [POLITICAL PROGRAMME ADOPTED BY THE KWAZULU NATAL ANC SPECIAL PROVINCIAL GENERAL COUNCIL (PGC) �] Reference

The land tax system in South Africa was also retrogressive, he said.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

And he was simultaneously pressing for a retrogressive domestic agenda.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stephen Schlesinger: Bush Was a Failed President From the Start] Reference

In Music a retrogressive step in which there is much hope, has been taken.    From Wordnik.com.  [Charles Dickens and Music] Reference

"An economy that operates on cash alone is a retrogressive economy," Tsumba said.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

Khutsong, said incorporation into the North West was a retrogressive step for the schools.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

Introducing PR would be retrogressive step at a time when we want more democracy, not less.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gordon Brown, Charlie Whelan and Me] Reference

'Reverse discrimination, retrogressive versus emancipatory identities and effortless osmosis'.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Today] Reference

(Cynically, we suspect that they gained more votes than they lost by this retrogressive act.).    From Wordnik.com.  [Tragedy of the Commons (historical)] Reference

Despite some GNU portfolio's awakening and moving ahead, many remain stagnant or retrogressive.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

Mantashe singled out the platinumm industry for a retrogressive attitude towards organised labour.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

"We hope this is not a retrogressive step and that it will not affect the progress made," he said.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

We are of the firm view that the recent nuclear tests are retrogressive, unhelpful and unwarranted.    From Wordnik.com.  [ADDRESS BY PRESIDENT NELSON MANDELA AT THE STATE DINNER HOSTED BY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL OF NEW ZEALAND, DAME CATHERINE TIZARD] Reference

They did not represent a potentially retrogressive legacy of the colonial past, as had been suggested.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

Felgate dismissed Gordhan's comments as "politicking" and said the new proposal was a retrogressive step.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

Chairman of the Pretoria Bar Council Gerhard Grobler said he saw the proposed legislation as retrogressive.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

In what was generally considered a retrogressive move, shortly after a meeting called by the African-American.    From Wordnik.com.  [7. The Riekert Commission: a Black Middle Class in the Making?] Reference

Young maintained that the Detexis technology was "extremely retrogressive", and had been used since the 1950s.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

We need to reaffirm our commitment to democracy in the face of the administration's retrogressive authoritarianism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Philip Slater: The Culture of Becoming] Reference

"We're going to see a slew of retrogressive legislation coming out in the wake of all the ACORN stuff," she predicts.    From Wordnik.com.  [Art Levine: While GOP Smears Franken Vote, Will Obama Help Repair Election System?] Reference

Milton V. Kline, professor of psychology at Long Island University, postulates that hypnosis is primarily retrogressive.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Practical Guide to Self-Hypnosis] Reference

Chiluba condemned the coup d'etat in the Ivory Coast, calling it retrogressive to the democratisation process in Africa.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

The retrogressive Doctor Hanchett had been quite an exquisite in the matter of apparel compared with this tatterdemalion.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 28, July, 1873] Reference

Ideas of creating school sections are rejected because they can easily be mobilised against any retrogressive tendencies.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mayibuye Returns] Reference

You dread to think what more retrogressive governments would do with her theories if they picked them up and ran with them.    From Wordnik.com.  [The view from Hay] Reference

In this sense, war is retrogressive and reactionary; it contributes to entropy and a downward spiral of cultural evolution.    From Wordnik.com.  [Randall Amster: Peace is the New War] Reference

"We expected it, though we are disappointed that government can make such a retrogressive decision," said Forum spokesman Bishop.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

The natural results of the arbitrary rule and retrogressive policy of the restored princes was deep and widespread discontent.    From Wordnik.com.  [General History for Colleges and High Schools] Reference

South Africans should be careful not to encourage a "retrogressive ethnicity" or to give new life to backward customs and habits.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

"This VAT is very retrogressive and must be withdrawn as it is meant to disadvantage the people in knowing what's happening," said.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

"For us to call for that (legislation) in the light of our structural adjustment programmes, would be retrogressive," Makoni said.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

It's just that I'm used to instant post with retrogressive censorship where a comment is deleted only if it is really beyond the pale.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference

The country, he said, faced profound, retrogressive implications if it gave in to the demands and threats of the extreme left and right.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

The excitement of the war into which the whole country was immediately precipitated, cut off, however, every chance of any such retrogressive movement.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Continental Monthly, Vol 3 No 3, March 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference