progressive

Examples of regressive

regressive
A further point of note is that some significant cross regressive terms were positively weighted.
Regressive events such as cell death and the elimination of long axon collaterals and dendritic processes are essential mechanisms of brain maturation.
Regressive forms may give us part of the key to reallocation of function in the nervous system.
Paradoxically, then, social democracy, when combined with high levels of corporatism, ends up using a regressive form of taxation more than we would expect.
As the relative tax rate on unskilled labor increases along the horizontal axis, the tax system becomes more regressive.
Overgeneralization errors are sometimes referred to as recidivisms, regressive overgeneralizations or hypercorrections.
We therefore should observe that social democratic governments are less likely to promote regressive forms of taxation.
They need to support the welfare state by relying upon a fundamentally regressive policy instrument: indirect taxation.
Rather than implying a tax scheme that is more progressive than a head tax, it implies one that is even more regressive.
Significantly, regressive nasalisation does not target or skip these vowels.
Regressive taxation provides an added incentive to earn a degree so that a smaller gross wage difference motivates skill acquisition.
When progressivity is high, the latter elasticity is close to zero, whereas it is larger than one when taxes are regressive.
The regressive implications of this move should be clear.
Because income tax in these countries is still somewhat progressive, tax-relief is bound to be regressive.
The recognition of probable parasequences within each sequence points to an episodic shallowing of each sequence, the overall regressive cycles being punctuated by deepening episodes.
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