retrogress

How To Use retrogress In A Sentence

• At a time when cities such as George Town and Malacca are winning international recognition for their preservation of heritage sections of their cities, the Sarawak government's retrogressive efforts to wipe out remaining vestiges of Kuching's architectural heritage are incomprehensible. Undefined
• In its absence China would retrogress into division and chaos, and modernization would become impossible.
• In differing degrees they represent a retrogressive approach to the Aids epidemic that could cost tens of thousands of lives.
• Should we continue to stagnate or retrogress while the rest of the world moves forward? ANC Daily News Briefing
• His symphonic scores revisited the motivic and symphonic aesthetic of the 19th century, a move regarded as retrogressive by modernist critics.
• In its absence China would retrogress into division and chaos, and modernization would become impossible.
• Hostile commentators seized on this to paint a picture of continuing retrogression to which the regime's final collapse in the late 1940s in an orgy of corruption induced by hyperinflation, lends colour.
• While these churches initially viewed gospel music as retrogressive, they were gradually won over.
• The whole area will retrogress into chaotic conditions. CNN Transcript May 24, 2006
• Our nobly intended welfare programs may be encouraging dysgenics-retrogressive evolution through disproportionate reproduction of the genetically disadvantage … We fear that 'fatuous beliefs' in the power of welfare money, unaided by eugenic foresight, may contribute to a decline of human quality for all segments of society. Climate Progress