Sentence examples for a backwards looking from inspiring English sources

The EU regularly carries out assessments of existing regulatory frameworks to make sure they are fit for purpose.4 This is in essence a backwards looking assessment to answer the question if the regulatory framework worked in the recent past.

Washington spends way too much time re-litigating the past — witness how much time has been devoted to debating old trade deals, the 2010 Affordable Care Act or the 1980s Reagan tax cuts — and has increasingly budgeted and legislated in a backwards looking way.

The monarch takes "a backwards looking, patriarchal, strife-ridden country" and advances it greatly.

Rather, the biggest problem facing the Republican Party is that they are a backwards looking party in a country that has always been oriented toward the future.

ICE Energy has a harder time engaging a large investor owned utility (IOU) servicing a territory that has not realistically priced energy, which is really too bad when we realize that the entire South East uses a great deal of air conditioning, with a backwards looking view on what a price for energy should be (no real carrots or sticks in quite a few states below the Mason Dixon line).

Casting a backwards look over his career, now etched out over 40 studio albums that display a curiosity for blues jams, heavy metal, soul music and country rock, would be deemed aberrant behaviour by Young.

Soon, she turned around and started to walk backwards, looking for a friend with whom she had started the race.

"Five Guys, I don't sense an identity; In-N-Out is backwards looking; Shake Shack is down-on-the-farm," he said.

Conversely, according to Parker, reactionary conservatives are backwards looking, generally fearful of losing their way of life in a wave of social change.

First, legislation by its nature is backwards looking and the brains on Wall Street will always find a loophole around it.

Of course, such analysis is only backwards looking.