retrospective

Examples of retroactive

retroactive
An extended comparative study of language support for generic programming 197 retroactive extension must occur in the same compilation unit as their definition.
An example showing the need for retroactive modeling.
To distinguish these from retroactive principles of justice such as justice in rectification.
More retroactive interference was found with those participants who learned translation equivalents on their second list than with those who learned different semantically non-overlapping vocabulary.
If this retroactive restructuring can be effected, then true replay is possible.
An alternative way of stating this is that design rationale can be maintained by retroactive restructuring of design descriptions.
Figure 3 presents first results achieved when both pro- and retroactive packing are enabled in the parser.
These retroactive effects are not allowed by law.
This allows the author to show that literacy acquisition has retroactive effects on phonological skills in both normally developing and dyslexic readers.
I see no reason why the application of personal merit to outcomes could not be, to some degree, retroactive.
The only difference between present day and retroactive principles is the kind of assumption: on the one hand a present information assumption, on the other a subjunctive information assumption.
Atlantic, in addition, paid the artists lump sums in retroactive payment of their royalties.
From an early stage, civilians were evidently seeking to move out of the cities and gain retroactive sanction for this from authorities who would not otherwise have permitted it.
Structural conformance gives retroactive modeling for free.
This problem has a retroactive character.
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