Sentence examples for Thinking backwards from inspiring English sources

Thinking backwards is, he says, wasted energy.

"Some people are thinking forwards and some people are thinking backwards," Mr. Maurer said.

Organic chemists often work by thinking backwards as much as they do forwards when designing a synthetic route.

The responses like "back testing," "good rechecking," and "help in thinking backwards" supported this.

"I was thinking backwards about what I had to go through".

FF: Once again, sorry but it feels like we're thinking backwards when we hear the question you just asked.

I'm not thinking of backwards narratives such as Memento, nor about Roman Polanski's vicious circles or Moebius-strip stories such as Dead of Night or La Jetée.

The lack of backwards compatibility (in the Xbox universe "backwards compatibility is backwards thinking") is another, although less so.

I think this is pretty backwards thinking in this day and age for many, many reasons.

"I wish Todd Akin's backwards thinking made him an outlier," said Emily's List president, Stephanie Schriock.

All of these Republican candidates have to pledge allegiance to them, their intolerance and their backwards thinking".