retrogression

How To Use retrogression In A Sentence

• 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 we were absent even these few months from the great centers of civilization, tremendous advances had been made in air-ships and the thousand and one other modern phases of human development, but evolution in the world of Nature as we observed it was only destructive -- a world-wide katabolism -- a retrogression often discernible from month to month. Our Vanishing Wild Life Its Extermination and Preservation
• The institute was to document the condition of the sculptures, investigate the sources of their retrogression, and prevent further deterioration.
• No politician is talking about ideas or programs to liberate the people from the current economic retrogression and social decay.
• Perhaps the problem of retrogression lies not in the planets themselves but in our understanding of the system of planets gathered about our Sun, and the relationship that the planets have with the Sun as seen from our geocentric viewpoint.
• The world is not to be understood as a complex of ready - made things, but as a complex of processes, in which the things apparently stable, no less than their mental images in our heads (Gedankenabbilder), the concepts, go through an uninterrupted change of coming into being and passing away, in which despite all seeming accidentality and tem porary retrogression, a progressive development asserts itself in the end Dictionary of the History of Ideas
• Holy Church, is our philosophy of life and we hold that any attempt to educate a youth in what we call secularism is a retrogression to a lower level than that of pre-Christian culture. Catholic Problems in Western Canada
• Though London was, apparently, unaware of either the technical or psychological area in which he was working, his fascination for the device gives another dimension to the studies of his naturalistic literature. 1 Finally, to note the ways in which London's artistry is at work at this point in his career, there is considerable ingenuity in the somewhat original fashion in which London parallels the “retrogression” of Buck to the “progression” of Fang. Le Milieu, Le Moment, La Race: Literary Naturalism in Jack London's White Fang
• The rhythms, sequences, waves and patterns with respect to the retrogression and direct motion of the planets is symphonic in its holistic entirety.
• The sun-centred system implies, for instance, that Jupiter's retrograde motion is more pronounced than that of Saturn, and that the frequency with which retrogression occurs is greater for Saturn than for Jupiter.