Backward
in sentence
285 examples of Backward in a sentence
The European Central Bank’s belated embrace of quantitative easing was a welcome step forward, but policymakers’ enormously destructive decision to shut down a member state’s banking system – for what appears to be political reasons – is a far larger step
backward.
Australia’s statements have been typical – falling over
backward
to avoid giving offense, and too anxious to balance criticism with praise.
These days, Nairobi looks more like Los Angeles than the
backward
Third World capital of yore.
I am painfully aware that our past can be characterized by one step forward and two steps
backward.
It is in this unflattering sense that Islam, the dominant religion of an economically
backward
part of the world, was said to have motivated the attacks of September 11, 2001.
Looking
backward
will get the international community nowhere.
Europe can either move forward, toward deeper integration, or it can move backward, toward national sovereignty.
In short, the fundamental problem with the debt-relief mantra is that it looks
backward
rather than forward.
But the Islam they promoted was not
backward
looking; instead, it sought to shape a modernizing economic policy that took note of Muslim sensibilities.
This is utterly
backward.
In many ways, Russia has been moving
backward
in recent decades.
He should take pains to present Japan as a strong country that looks forward rather than backward, and that wants to contribute to economic development, peace, and security around the world – and especially within Asia.
Works such as The Red Wheel series of novels, a tedious account of the end of Imperial Russia and the creation of the USSR, or his last book, written in 2001, entitled Two Hundred Years Together on the history of Russian-Jewish coexistence, seem backward, preachy, conservative, unenlightened, at times even anti-Semitic, and smack of Solzhenitsyn’s own grim authoritarianism.
Fatwas promulgated after Bin Baz are almost always horrendous in their intolerance and virulence, and certainly appear
backward
and anti-modernist.
As the EU shows, ancient enmities and battle lines can be turned into mutually beneficial cooperation if a region looks forward, to resolving its long-term needs, rather than backward, to its long-standing rivalries and conflicts.
This inconsistent – and often simply cynical – stance has mired Europe in an unhappy equilibrium: It cannot move backward, it cannot move forward, and it satisfies no one.
In a sense, the world is headed backward, as once-treatable microbes become resistant to existing therapies, and new infections for which there are no effective interventions continue to arise.
Another question is how much of the revenues should be transferred, and how transfers can be effected in a country as large, complex, and financially
backward
as Nigeria.
So if the Islamic world is different from the West, it is so because it is backward, not because it is Muslim.
Turning away from a fight with its former occupier and historical rival would be a step
backward
in this six-decade-long quest.
Meanwhile, countries left out of European integration – such as Turkey – now seem pleased to have missed the boat, as they attempt to chart their own way forward (or, it often seems, backward) without external interests or responsibilities constraining their behavior.
For a constructive partnership, both sides will have to lean over
backward.
It is possible to see in Chavez but another Latin American populist sorcerer's apprentice, one whose political shelf life will expire whenever oil prices begin their inevitable shift
backward.
The first is its psycho-historical complex, which forces German leaders to bend over
backward
to reassure foreigners about their intentions.
Unlike the ancient god Janus, Romania cannot look
backward
and forwards all at once.
Efforts to move
backward
to the time of independent nation-states will therefore carry massive costs.
This argument is strange because it gets the economics of the situation
backward.
The move also represents a giant leap
backward
for a continent that often struggles to ensure its own food security.
Those who think that entrepreneurs got rich because of their political connections commit a classic analytical error: they reason
backward
on the basis of outcomes rather than the processes that produced those outcomes.
Detractors of the "Three Represents" also have their ideas about democracy
backward.
Back
Next
Related words
Which
Their
Would
Country
After
Could
There
Looking
While
About
Should
Rather
Where
Himself
Before
Always
World
Power
Economic
Between