There's no sense of rolling back the clock on that one.
Its failure would turn back the clock on much of the progress made so far.
Bush's fiat turns back the clock on all advances in military justice, through three wars, in the past half-century.
To hold that there was would be to turn back the clock on at least a half century of administrative law.
Congressman Martin Frost, a Democrat from a heavily minority district in Fort Worth, said the ruling "turns back the clock on nearly 40 years of progress" for minorities.
Get busy, and don't let them turn back the clock on your watch.
Still, there is no turning back the clock on this one.
Now scientists say they have turned back the clock on evolution — at least, in one small aspect of anatomy.
The new study points the way toward therapeutic targets that might one day help turn back the clock on the memory loss, he says.
This basic misunderstanding, left unattended, may one day lead governments to turn back the clock on liberal trade.Other good policies have likewise been founded on bad economics.
"We cannot turn back the clock on our students".
