Domestication of this species has been greatly retarded by a peculiarity of the species which hinders its propagation.
The grapes on the vines grafted on Gloire and Clevener ripened a few days earlier than those on their own roots, while with St. George a few varieties were retarded in ripening.
The assumption of accelerated accumulation in Department I would then have to be supplemented by that of retarded accumulation in Department II, technical progress in one department by regression in the other.
Had taken many medicines; first from her apothecary, afterwards by the direction of a very judicious and very celebrated physician, but nothingretarded the increase of the dropsy.
I found myself safe under this regulation for two or three years; but at length cases occurred in which the pulse would be retarded to an alarming degree, without any other preceding effect.
Vickers guns, was also retarded by the duty of preparing the drawings for the other concerns who had contracted to make heavy Brownings; and this factory, the birthplace of the Browning gun, was not able to produce any until the end of June.
With things going on as they did, both were retarded in their work, and each in turn became discouraged.
Visitors retarded his work, but this was no real detriment, nor did he feel the time lost that he spent in returning visits.
The hatching of eggs may be forced by high temperatures, or be retarded by exposure to cold; and in nature the period of incubation varies with the seasons.
All the developmental processes are retarded and some of them give out prematurely.
This period is characterized by a normal palingenic development, except that the cell division is retarded and there is very little growth.
Sumach has been successfully introduced into Australia, but its development is retarded owing to difficulties of labour, which render competition with the European product almost impossible.
In the earliest days of the century milk was shipped by boat to the city markets, but the lack of river access for many farms and the ease of spoilage on this slow mode of transportation retarded the growth of the commercial milk market.
Threats and violence were brought into requisition to intimidate and prevent the well meaning from using their efforts to render the political situation such that society could improve rather than be retarded under it.
The lack of moral and of financial support whichretarded its progress in the early years, has been so far surmounted The movement may now, I think, appeal for further help as one that has justified its existence.
These tendencies have, of course, much fuller play when they act on a people whose education has (through no fault of their own) been retarded or stunted.
Guggenbühl before us, we select one as the type of a large class, in which the development of the intellect seems to have been retarded by the physical disorder, but proceeded regularly on the return of health.
We think our readers will perceive that this was not a case of confirmed intellectual degradation, but only of retarded mental development, the result of diseased bodily condition.
How largely all this retarded growth and knowledge and the extension of human well-being it is difficult to say, but the fact itself is well established.
Pain is often accompanied by nausea, indeed the nausea of a sick headache may be only secondary, induced by a pain springing from quite another source than retarded digestion.
And then, with what seemed a retarded rather than sudden awareness, I knew that he had stopped speaking.
The calculation will exceed the truth in consequence of the stone being retarded in its passage by the resistance of the air.
In all cases it is the moist condition and retarded drying of the lumber which induces attack; therefore, any method which will provide for the rapid drying of the wood before or after piling will tend to prevent losses.
In all cases it is the moist condition and retarded drying of the wood which causes this.
It does, however, influence the rate of evaporation, which is retarded by the presence of air.
However, the vapor did not permanently injure the eyes; it merely filled them with tears to such an extent that a soldier was unable to see and consequently was confused and retarded in his work.
It seems absurd to think that a shell weighing close to a quarter of a ton could be retarded appreciably by mere air.
On the other hand, the larger the shell, the more will it be retarded by the air, because there will be a larger surface for the air to press against.
This was the precept that plunged the world into the Dark Ages, andretarded the advance of mankind for centuries.
Nothing has retarded the growth of scientific medicine during the past 2000 years so much as the iron grip of theology in maintaining practices based on belief in this supernatural origin of disease.
The theistic assumption has but retarded the advance of practical knowledge, and prepared the soil for superstition and the countless terrors of religious beliefs.
During the complete control by the Church of civilization in Europe, it has retarded the progress of humanity for at least 2000 years, and its precepts and fundamental principles are today detrimental to the advance of mankind.
To have retarded the growth of medicine for the past 2000 years!
The operations of the fourth season had been also much retardedby several untoward accidents.
In such a case, the loss even of a single stone would have greatlyretarded the work.
In the month of April, the writer visited the works at Arbroath, which he found still in a much retarded state, for want of a regular supply of granite.
But should the comet chance to pass the orbit of Jupiter just in front of the planet, its motion would be retarded and the orbit would be changed into one of shorter period.
But at every return to perihelion the motion of a comet will be to some extent either accelerated or retarded by the action of Jupiter or any other planet in the neighbourhood of which it may pass.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "retarded" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
