retroactively

How To Use retroactively In A Sentence

• Even his later eminence couldn't turn him retroactively into a cult figure.
• The exemptions were extended retroactively to cover many investments made during the period in which the incentive had been eliminated.
• BSG was good, but as pts says, the ending was so bad (after so much buildup) that it kind of retroactively renders the rest of the show mediocre. Matthew Yglesias » TV Show of the Decade
• The ruling should be applied retroactively.
• That being the case, I'm not super jazzed about your attempt to change the rules of our contract retroactively... a rule change that'd force me, my wife and my infant daughter out of our home yes, Walter, we may not own the house, but it is *our home*... unless you're somehow declaring that the several million renters in the City of Los Angeles are all, in fact, homeless. Case Study: Repealing Rent Control Can Reduce Gridlock
• Augustan ideals may retroactively remold the character and ambition of such figures as the Trojan Aeneas, but it is difficult to find in the Roman attitude toward Greek culture anything comparable to the humanist ideal of romanitas.
• Of the four cases of breast cancer in women who wore the testosterone patch, one had symptoms reported retroactively as starting before the treatment.
• Her fellow Democrats in Congress are trying to raise BP's liability retroactively—the sort of move America's courts rightly frown on.
• The board will apply this position for all tax years retroactively.
• It's an outcome with which many of these politicians are far from unhappy, as it retroactively justifies their own bad behavior.