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They argue that the style is retrograde and that they reflect neither recent Malian contemporary art nor a Malian aesthetic.
Speckle tracking in migrating cells with retrograde flow had turned out to be more challenging.
It is certainly not a retrograde piece of aesthetics, but it hardly seems to break the new ground that was hoped for, either.
Excretory and retrograde urograms and voiding cystograms may demonstrate associated conditions.
Characteristically, meningitis, through retrograde spread, often leads to ependymitis.
He is, however, quite impatient with the clods and dullards who do not find the tradition hopelessly retrograde.
The authors postulate a retrograde ductular pattern of viral spread that may have pathogenic significance.
The amount of retrograde amnesia in H. M., for example, may have been grossly underestimated.
It is also accelerating, since it has maximum retrograde motion near inferior conjunction and maximum direct motion near superior conjunction.
You mention that the breaking up of large-scale commercial agriculture is retrograde.
The viral capsid is transported to the dorsal root ganglion in neurons via retrograde axonal flow.
Numerous small, distant satellites in both prograde and retrograde orbits have been discovered recently.
Had the subsequently discovered planet Uranus displayed retrograde motion, the Newtonian theory would have been off the hook.
After being retrograde since July, the planet appears stationary on the 30th and thereafter returns to normal west to east motion.
Pluto is conjunct the Midheaven from the ninth house, along with Mercury, which is still retrograde, and in the tenth house.
The most forward sections fall into line with the rest of the soldiers, who then join in the retrograde maneuver.
You don't need to be a usability expert to see that this is a retrograde step.
Life drawing has come to be regarded as a retrograde activity that now represents an ideological divide.
The appellant asserts that the building was uninhabitable when he moved in, and that to return it to that state would be a retrograde step.
He also discovered the retrograde rotation of the system of globular clusters around the galaxy.
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Examples from Classical Literature
It is a retrograde theory which we are asked to re-examine and perhaps accept.
A return to matriarchy at the present time would be distinctly and emphatically and essentially retrograde in every particular.
This is the kernel of all that is most retrograde in Mr. Carlyle's teaching.
My natal Huck, retrograde in the tenth, gives an untrustworthy, criminous person.
Injections made retrograde from the thoracic duct, pass through the villi into the intestines.
A plaster or cataplasm, with opium and camphor on the region of the stomach, will sometimes revert its retrograde motions.
At once in a sort of retrograde vision, she relived the past.
But, contrary to my expectations, the Nautilus took a decided retrograde motion.
Such a return to the nakedness of the brute must be retrograde.
But she had an idea that the world would go on rather than retrograde.
From which by courses retrograde you are now tempest-tossed.
The ideal is as impracticable as it is puerile and retrograde.
Our history must needs retrograde for the space of a few pages, to inform the reader of certain passages material to his understanding the rest of this important narrative.
The new system being now established, a retrograde movement to the old would be almost as difficult as the step that placed him in his unparalleled position.
Previous X-ray and retrograde urethrogram showed a calcified foreign body in the urethra, and he had been advised to undergo a surgical intervention 1 year prior but refused.
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