Sentence examples similar to and backwards looking from inspiring English sources

* Caveats: All numbers are based on CrunchBase and are backwards looking.

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.

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

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

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

Of course, such analysis is only backwards looking.

In regards to technological advancements in music, Pallett said he's a bit of a traditionalist and "backwards-looking".

Unlock the backrest angle and lean forwards and backwards while looking at your monitor.

He couldn't be doing a better job at making Euroscepticism look unprincipled and backwards-looking.

"Most banks are focused on your budget and expenses and looking backwards," said Jacob Jegher, a senior analyst at Celent who specializes in online banking and has tracked consumers' interest in third-party sites like Mint that help people manage their finances.

The Brexit points to the sort of xenophobic and backwards-looking tendencies that got gutted Europe in two World Wars.