Backwards
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Knuckle-crackers know that to get that satisfying pop, you stretch the joint farther than it normally goes by bending your fingers backwards, for example.
You can't bend your knee backwards, or bend your forearm in the middle, for example.
When plankton concentrations become patchy, manta rays feed alone and they somersault themselves
backwards
again and again, very much like a puppy chasing its own tail.
If you've had surgery, you might remember starting to count
backwards
from ten, nine, eight, and then waking up with the surgery already over before you even got to five.
She'd reason this out by working
backwards
from the last possible scenario with only her and Daniel remaining.
But neither Bhutan, nor the world can afford to spend 15 years going
backwards.
First, we took the story and played it
backwards.
It's a trend, and if we continue, if we unleash our youth, if we unleash our women, we may step
backwards
sometimes, we may even step sideways, but the trend is clear.
The ripples of the personal DNA revolution may be hard to predict, but one thing is certain: revolutions don't go backwards, and DNA technology is already spreading faster than our imagination.
I hit the dog anyways, and that sent the car into a fishtail, and then a spin across the freeway, until finally it wound up in the fast lane of the freeway faced
backwards
into oncoming traffic and then the engine died.
Without hesitation, little Dorothy responded, "Yes, Daddy, and fish swim
backwards
by wagging their heads."
Fish swim
backwards
by wagging their heads.
Our lives are full of fish swimming
backwards.
This means that for the lead, you spend half of the dance traveling backwards, completely blind.
Here, we’d recognize time as unfolding
backwards.
The majority of the countries are standing still or moving backwards, and big countries like Brazil, India, China, Bangladesh have all seen significant declines.
So let's go back 2,000 years
backwards.
CA: So as you look at what's happening today, and putting your historian's hat on, do you look back in history at moments when things were going just fine and an individual leader really took the world or their country
backwards?
It was smoky, it was hot, and all of a sudden, there was an explosion, and Skip and I were blown backwards, my mask was knocked sideways, and there was this moment of confusion.
Use science to, you know, work
backwards
and say, "Well, really, what were they thinking?"
What does seem to matter today is very simple, whether your view of the world is that you take comfort from looking inwards and backwards, or whether, like me, you find hope in looking forwards and outwards.
I don't at all misunderstand why so many people find their comfort in looking inwards and
backwards.
When people turn inwards and turn backwards, human progress becomes reversed and things get worse for everybody very quickly indeed.
If you're like me and you believe in forwards and outwards, and you believe that the best thing about humanity is its diversity, and the best thing about globalization is the way that it stirs up that diversity, that cultural mixture to make something more creative, more exciting, more productive than there's ever been before in human history, then, my friends, we've got a job on our hands, because the inwards and
backwards
brigade are uniting as never before, and that creed of inwards and backwards, that fear, that anxiety, playing on the simplest instincts, is sweeping across the world.
When he went under anesthesia for emergency surgery, instead of counting
backwards
from 10, he repeated our names like a mantra.
Walking
backwards
from the market, here is what it looks like.
Our backs are arched, our knees are bent, our toes are curled, our elbows are hyperflexed and our fingers are curved
backwards.
I'm going to move forward, because going
backwards
isn't an option and standing still is not enough.
What you see is it takes steps backwards, it tries to counter-balance, it tries to look at the place where it thinks it's going to land.
What I'm describing here is having multiple projects on the go at the same time, and you move
backwards
and forwards between topics as the mood takes you, or as the situation demands.
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