Retrogression in a sentence as a noun

Reverting back to a defacto gold standard would be a retrogression on a scale rarely witnessed in the previous few centuries.

One could actually argue—as I sometimes do—that the success of commercial personal computing and operating systems has actually led to a considerable retrogression in many, many respects.

This section on the "costs" of mining bitcoin is well raised and relevant>Here is the passage: thing I haven’t seen emphasized, however, is the extent to which the whole concept of having to “mine” Bitcoins by expending real resources amounts to a drastic retrogression — a retrogression that Adam Smith would have scorned.>This he calls out as completely misplaced:How much does the existing banking/payment infrastructure cost?

In those cases, employers' incentive to attempt to lock in H-1B employees to a job by offering a green card is reduced, because the employer bears the high legal costs and fees associated with labor certification and I-140 processing, but the H-1B employee is still free to change jobs.>However, many people are ineligible to file I-485 at the current time due to the widespread retrogression in priority dates.

I think that gives the United States a really good claim to be a revolutionary country as well as of course paradoxically it's a very conservative one" and in another response to the same question called America "the last revolution that still stands a chance".If we lose sight of what makes that so, all the advances in individualism in both senses will be under threat of retrogression, for there is nothing in history that says progress must always be forward.

Retrogression definitions

noun

passing from a more complex to a simpler biological form

See also: degeneration

noun

returning to a former state

See also: regression regress reversion retroversion