Sentence examples for as a backwards from inspiring English sources

Mocho is stigmatised as a backwards farming community.

I'm surprised at how sticky Pittsburgh's reputation as a backwards steel town has proved.

The last thing anyone wants is for the Games to be seen as a backwards step in any sense.

Yet the new venture was immediately condemned by some in the industry as a backwards step, ghettoising women.

Ken Livingstone, the former mayor, described Johnson's decision as a "backwards step in accountability and transparency, and further proof of the Tory administration's lack of interest in regeneration.

He says they celebrate that quirkiness with a healthy dose of elitism as a defining characteristic that elevates them above the masses who have already moved onto the next medium without so much as a backwards glance.

I see it as a backwards-looking quick fix that will do far more long-term harm than short-term good.

In terms of the scope and effort, the HTML5 effort has an earlier historical analogy in the HTML 3.0 spec. Back in April of 1995, the HTML 3.0 spec was drafted as a backwards-compatible way of adding new features (such as tables) to HTML 2.0.

They can zip through Yvonne Rainer's legendary Trio A backwards as well as forwards, posing the question that all the choreographers ask: 'What did you just see?

Model 2 includes the intermediate set of five psychiatric items for the detection of mental disorders during pregnancy, as nominated through a backwards stepwise regression analysis (see Additional file 2).

It sounds to me as though it's a backwards step for England to be honest.