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retroactive tax increase
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a retroactive pay increase
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"I was right there in the room when they came up with the idea that a pregnancy could be terminated retroactively once a child reaches the age of reason," says the Admiral.† (source)
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When no one volunteered a response, the priest turned to his right as if retroactively directing the question to the Consul.† (source)
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If Zeus went around retroactively yanking my divine power out of all my descendants, half the medical schools in the country would be empty.† (source)
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He disappears not only here and now but retroactively.† (source)
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"In fact," the Chief Elder continued, chuckling a little herself, "we even gave a little thought to some retroactive chastisement for the one who had been Asher's Instructor of Threes so long ago.† (source)
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So am I included in all this business, too, retroactively?† (source)
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It's no excuse that what they did was legal at the time: their crimes are retroactive.† (source)
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If a State retroactively changed the relative value of its money, it would injure the citizens of other States, kindling animosities among the States themselves.† (source)
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It's so retroactive that it's radioactive!† (source)
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He thought that he had believed it was a simple sequence, the past and the present, and if there was loss in the past one was compensated by pain in the present, and pain gave it a form of immortality—but he had not known that one could destroy like this, kill retroactively—so that to her it had never existed.† (source)
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Prosecutors in many places resisted retroactive application of the Court's decision in Miller v. Alabama, but everyone now had new hope, including Ashley Jones and Trina Garnett.† (source)
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And once he says it, the remark is retroactively inevitable because this was the President's opening line of course and it gets a medium laugh but Lenny kills the bit before it begins.† (source)
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This order is retroactive to The Day, so that any births or marriages that have occurred since The Day may be properly recorded.† (source)
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She would have no light burning because she would be out of the house soon, and probably some mental descendant or kinsman of him or her who had told her once that light and moving air carried heat had also told her that the cost of electricity was not in the actual time the light burned but in the retroactive overcoming of primary inertia when the switch was snapped: that that was what showed on the meter.† (source)
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