retrogressed in a sentence

Examples

1. U . N . officials said that Gaza's development actually retrogressed in those years _ water resources were channeled to Israeli settlers, medical services were neglected, any sign of political activity was blocked, and construction permits were used as a tool of power, to be swapped for collaboration.
2. The structurally lowest parts in the north and northeast of the island consist of grey, strongly foliated, mylonitic ortho-gneiss with abundant cross-cutting pegmatite chlorite epidote schist and thin marble layers, on top of which are found chlorite epidote gneiss and retrogressed amphibolite as well as some small serpentinite lenses.
3. In turn Marx wrote of the rebels in the Dresden insurrection of 1848 that " In the Russian refugee Michael Bakunin they found a capable and cool headed leader . " Marx wrote to Engels of meeting Bakunin in 1864 after his escape to Siberia saying " On the whole he is one of the few people whom I find not to have retrogressed after 16 years, but to have developed further ."
4. On July 2, 2007, however, the State Department issued an Update to July Visa Availability that retrogressed the dates to " unavailable . " The State Department offered the following explanation : " The sudden backlog reduction efforts by Citizenship and Immigration Services Offices during the past month have resulted in the use of almost 60, 000 Employment numbers . . . . Effective Monday July 2, 2007 there will be no further authorizations in response to requests for Employment-based preference cases . " Visas in the employment-based categories were unavailable until the beginning of FY2008.