How To Use Retroactively In A Sentence
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Even his later eminence couldn't turn him retroactively into a cult figure.
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The exemptions were extended retroactively to cover many investments made during the period in which the incentive had been eliminated.
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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
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The ruling should be applied retroactively.
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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
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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.
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Of the four cases of breast cancer in women who wore the testosterone patch, one had symptoms reported retroactively as starting before the treatment.
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Her fellow Democrats in Congress are trying to raise BP's liability retroactively—the sort of move America's courts rightly frown on.
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The board will apply this position for all tax years retroactively.
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It's an outcome with which many of these politicians are far from unhappy, as it retroactively justifies their own bad behavior.
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The court orders an increase in his government pension, to be carried out retroactively.
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In a sense, he is retroactively legitimising his curatorial work by casting it as a definitive art movement of the 1990s.
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This 11-day event, which included skiing, speed skating, figure skating, ice hockey and bobsledding, was a huge success and was retroactively called the first Olympic Winter Games.
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Has he had too many unconscious imitators or literary doppelgängers retroactively sapping his originality?
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All the tough-minded arguments for liberal imperialism are ones that could have been - and were - used to justify wars that today's liberal imperialists retroactively deplore.
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The festival retroactively became the first Winter Olympics.
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In today's Post coverage, titled "Ritter Staff Skirts Disclosures," reporter Jessica Fender highlights the fact that the new order will not retroactively cover the last three years of Ritter's violations, not even with the aid of Ritter's own spin machine, headed up by spokesman Evan Dreyer, who flippantly referred to the mistake as "an oversight," and one that had been "remedied" by the new order.
Jessica Corry: After Skirting Ethics Rules, Colorado Governor Rewrites Them
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The programme, which had expired 31 December 2003, will be extended retroactively from that date to 31 December 2005.
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In particular, the speaker expressed fears that the redeliberation of the disputed bills could give rise to the tricky question as to whether other bills approved in the same manner should be retroactively restudied.
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On Jan. 23 a decree suspended import tariffs retroactively from Jan. 15 until the expected announcement of new tariffs on April 1.
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Judicial rules, promulgated prior to such statute and which were more favorable to the interests of remaindermen, can be relied upon by the latter only insofar as said rules were intended to operate retroactively; for the decedent, in whose estate the remaindermen had an interest, died even before such court rules were established.
The Constitution of the United States of America: Analysis and Interpretation Annotations of Cases Decided by the Supreme Court of the United States to June 30, 1952
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Now, unfortunately, it seems that I am retroactively a lawbreaker.
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Palm retroactively refunding $50 webOS app submiss
Joystiq
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Once the budget is passed, all payments will be made retroactively.
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They dialogue with the assemblers to anticipate their needs and add the appropriate services both retroactively and proactively.
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he will get paid retroactively
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I am not persuaded that spousal support should be ordered retroactively to the date of separation as sought.
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This will apply retroactively to former users of the service.
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But the recent commercial apologies are especially risky. Some formerly satisfied customers or readers will be retroactively aggrieved.
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It isn't yet clear whether the new law can actually be applied retroactively.
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Up the road is a 1930s Atlanta soda fountain that has been retroactively desegregated.
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Once a suspect is identified, people retroactively interpret incidents to support the new accusation.
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If this speech truly serves as a framework for how the administration will govern in the lead-up to 2012 -- and if these new lines in the sand turn out to be real -- then I'll be overjoyed to retroactively withdraw my uneasy reaction to it.
Arianna Huffington: Barack Obama's Memento Presidency
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The 11-day event, which included Nordic skiing, speed skating, figure skating, ice hockey and bobsledding, was a huge success and was retroactively called the first Olympic winter Games.
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LHP Andy Pettitte was retroactively placed on the 15-day DL. He is eligible to come off on Saturday.
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What is unacceptable about this (so-called) "compromise" renewal of FISA is that, by immunizing the malfeasant telecoms retroactively, it strips the system of one of the checks that exist against its abuse.
Why Obama's Support For FISA Cave-In Is Such A Downer
