The change, retroactive to January, stems from an effort by the Bush administration to control spiraling housing costs.

That had ushered in her retroactive change of life in the year 1090, and suddenly she had three children.

Banking on a Change Sometimes Congress makes a retroactive change in the tax law.

I'd be spoiled for working at any company that didn't have a designer who could make retroactive changes to materials that had already been produced.

His retroactive change of story to fit the facts, though, was not the only reason.

Thus, it signaled that retroactive changes to a privacy policy could constitute an unfair and deceptive trade practice.

However, the show's writers later applied a retroactive change in the continuity of George's father, such that he had died when George was 10 years old.

Yes, retroactive changes in immigration law are now condemning many people who do not fit the image of evil criminals.

Dalek in-universe history has seen many retroactive changes, which have caused continuity problems.

When producers decided to feature the Florida character in her own show, they applied retroactive changes to the characters' history.