retrogress

“I felt I had worked far too hard, that we had come far too far to have to retrogress to 1935. My way of dealing with it was to see that it was really a piece of Americana, of American history, whether we liked it or not. Whether I sing it or not, it was still going to be there.”

“People who’ve had the vaccinations are very unlikely to have clinically significant disease even from the delta variant. I think until there is data showing that that is no longer operational, there should be no need to retrogress into a masked-up Congress or a masked-up state.”

Justice Department approval for changes to political boundaries, legislators in charge of redistricting are expected not to retrogress - that is, they are expected not to decrease the percentage of districts where African American voters have a chance to elect a candidate of their choice.

“With the freedoms we have created, Liberia cannot retrogress,” she says.

"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," they added.