In a 1938 speech president roosevelt acknowledged that some administration policies were retarding recovery .
罗斯福总统在1938年的一次演讲中坦诚当局某些政策拖了经济复苏的后腿。
Until leopold 's innocent act , every step in civilization had been another notch in controlling and retarding nature .
在利奥波德这天真的行动之前,文明迈出的每一步都走上对自然进行控制和阻隔的又一个阶梯。
Jeffrey frieden in his 1993 book on latin america , for example , argues that the latin america adjustment in the late 1970s was extremely slow and painful precisely because powerful vested interests were so successful in retarding or diluting reform .
Indeed , bank examiners have become so fearful of condoning risky banking practices that they are making it difficult for banks to lend to small businesses and consumers and thus are retarding the economic recovery .
Meanwhile , democrats in congress are struggling to pass even the most basic spending measures amid fears over the federal deficit , and an influential group of u.s. corporate leaders this week accused mr. obama of retarding growth with a slew of new taxes and rules .