Sentences with word «retrogressive»

Although both the ESCR Committee and the resulting doctrine have explicitly expressed the presumption of the invalidity of retrogressive measures for economic, social and cultural rights, the fact is that the possibilities for enforcing the prohibition are very limited.

This leads to the introduction of a key element when assessing the compatibility or not of retrogressive measures in the context of ICESCR: priorities.

That is, governments must take documentable and visible steps toward meeting their obligations and may not take deliberately retrogressive steps.

LOS ANGELES — When David Hockney began his career, figurative painting was considered old hat and even retrogressive.

If any deliberately retrogressive measures are taken, the State party has the burden of proving that they have been introduced after the most careful consideration of all alternatives and that they are duly justified by reference to the totality of the rights provided for in the Covenant in the context of the full use of the State party's maximum available resources.»

The increasingly common refrain that «I'm spiritual, but not religious,» represents some of the most retrogressive aspects of contemporary society.

The most retrogressive aspects of contemporary society are religions leaders who have zero (ZERO) influence over extremists whose unending violence proceeds unchecked under their own banners, whose churches routinely abandon their principle mandates — the poor, infirmed, jailed, the hungry — to writers who view the thirst of people without spiritual homes as «cop outs».

As the ground ice melts, the frozen landscape sinks and buckles, creating what scientists describe as «retrogressive thaw slumps.»

Not so long ago it would have seemed hopelessly retrogressive for Tate Britain to put on an exhibition devoted to 100 years of British figurative painting.

«Progress» is often retrogressive in democracies — and now it seems, even in scientism.

While retrogressive people think or assume everyone is trying to take them down, progressive people do well to discover the strength in those they encounter and use this for the good of all.

Even though some seventy years later the temple was rebuilt and sacrifices reinstated, this step proved retrogressive, leading to a period of stagnation.

As the young female foreign minister of a country embedded in popular media imagination as a haven for all sorts of retrogressive elements, Ms. Khar's visit was bound to generate a lot of interest among the student body.

Such a static and retrogressive view of what are essentially peoples» movements fuelled by genuine concerns of power devolution and resource control, and accentuated by wide spread human rights abuses by military and para-military forces in the province, is indicative of the security establishment's pre-eminence in decision - making with regards to this and other issues.

Vitally, during her talk, she was able to link this imbalance in the dynamics of power between state institutions to the implementation of a security - focussed and, ultimately, retrogressive foreign policy towards Pakistan's neighbours and in the state's linkages with the global imperium.

Indeed, one justice minister admitted that the cuts were made urgently and without time for research, in fundamental contradiction to what international human rights law and standards require, which is a thorough assessment of the likely impact on people and their human rights prior to the introduction of retrogressive austerity measures.

Under the old law, the LUC rate was totally inaccurate and retrogressive which deprived the State of keeping track of all economic activities that relate to land in Lagos State.

One of his last transactions on the account took place on the 4th December, 2015, the same day he addressed his colleagues at the floor of the Senate, on a proposed retrogressive, repressive, anti-free speech and anti-democracy bill on social media and public petition censorship.

He advised media houses to censor «retrogressive contributions to national discourse» like those of the Arewa Youth Coalition and IPOB.

We, the Biafrans are out of this fruitless and retrogressive marriage with Nigeria.

The Village is a transparent allegory for Bush's retrogressive America, which trades freedom for assurances of safety and the purported protection of innocence (the safe color, of course, is yellow; no green for «go» in The Village's repressive, passion - drained climes).

On the basis of these declarations, Christian Courtis has indicated that any state that intends to adopt retrogressive measures will need to prove, first, that there exists a «qualified state interest».

Perhaps the most important consequence of the debate on public spending priorities is that when the state intends to introduce retrogressive norms or public policies, the burden of proof is inverted; it is the state's responsibility to prove the need for the proposed measures and that they are justified within the totality of rights recognized in the ICESCR.

Weight was saved on the brakes too, replacing the concept's Brembo discs and pads with conventional MX - 5 ones - a step that seems somewhat retrogressive, but big brakes aren't as necessary on a lighter car - and the 11.3 kg standard battery was replaced with a 2 kg lithium alternative.

Culture is dynamic and evolves over time, consciously discarding retrogressive traditions, like female genital mutilation (FGM), and embracing aspects that are good and useful.

There's a stunning - looking campaign that's the most enjoyable single - player since Black Ops 2, a smartly retrogressive multiplayer with some enjoyable add - ons, and a game that looks like it's going to earn every bit of its inevitable commercial success.

If art is to manifest from its own era, then isn't a practice rooted in the hand - drawn retrogressive, counter to technology - based virtual realities and the elimination of the artist's hand in contemporary art production?»

It is this intensity of creative faith, combined with an eye for radiant colour and a fearless determination to take influences from a disparate range of sources (he based a series of paintings on the work of Russian composer Shostakovich), which takes his best work beyond retrogressive abstract expressionism.

«Yes, I think we are in a moment in the world where things are going along a certain path and it feels very retrogressive.

Roberts can't tell left from right, forward from backward, progressive from retrogressive, sceptic from conservative, liberal from deeply illiberal.

Unfortunately, there is actually quite good model agreement on the overall pattern over the East Pacific through the end of the month: the huge ridge over the Eastern Pacific is expected to persist and perhaps grow even more, continuing the extraordinarily dry pattern over California but allowing for occasionally large swings in temperature as a very cold airmass over Canada is occasionally able to spill westward in weak or even slightly retrogressive (east to west) zonal flow.

The court's order (released today) regards the South Carolina law as «not [having] a discriminatory retrogressive effect,» and that the Act «allows citizens with non-photo voter registration cards to still vote without a photo ID so long as they state the reason for not having obtained one.»

I understand that this can be seen as retrogressive, but for those women who aspire to what used to be thought of as a traditional life with home and family, there is almost no ink addressing personal fulfillment outside of the workplace.

When David Hockney began his career, figurative painting was considered old hat and even retrogressive.

For the Committee, «any deliberately retrogressive measures... would require the most careful consideration and would need to be fully justified by reference to the totality of the rights provided for in the Covenant and in the context of the full use of the maximum available resources» (17).

Consequently, the adoption of retrogressive measures incompatible with the core obligations would constitute a violation of the right to water (30).

Therefore, to the qualities already mentioned, I would add the following generic qualities: (a) an expansive quality associated with the feelings of subjectivity; (b) a retrogressive or inertial quality inherent in the conformal feature of simple causal feelings; and (c) a discordant quality present within the communal character of transmuted physical feelings.