retroactive

• The Constitutional Court ruled in October 2005 that the amendment was not retroactive, and Compaore went on to win the November 2005 presidential election with over 80\% of the vote.
• Obama's team is hoping to make the credit retroactive, meaning that it would apply to your 2008 tax return. —  Wealth Junkies
• They'are also challenging whether it is retroactive, which is stupid since the California Constitution now says "Only a marriage between a man and a woman is valid or recognized in California." —  Latest Articles
• This is what we call a retroactive confession of evolutionist ignorance, where, as I've observed before, evolutionists exhibit predictable behavior where they "only admit how weak the evidence was for evolution after they have some new allegedly 'transitional' fossil in their hands." —  Evolution News & Views
• It depends on the type of change orders; sometimes when a change order is retroactive, meaning that the work is already done, that flows immediately to the bottom line and that is higher margin.

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