Sentence examples for as backward from inspiring English sources

Isolationism is as backward as protectionism.

The girl didn't say 'owt because she was as backward as I was.

And the mullahs are not as backward as you might think.

He is gentle, enjoys gardening, and is not nearly as backward as his workmates assume.

But as I looked around at the fashion world elite, the men seemed just as backward as I was.

Orthodoxy was stigmatised as backward.

And the logic here strikes me as backward.

Demand curves sloping down is not as important as backward induction but it's still quite important.

Once, the South had been viewed as backward; by the mid-1990s, the North was.

But publishers aren't as backward-looking as they can seem.

Bloggers have mocked it as backward-looking and cumbersome to enforce.