Sentence examples for backs rather from inspiring English sources

It is slightly erotic and I thought it made a change to see women's backs rather than their breasts, but I don't think it is exploitative.

This means getting the inspectors and the bureaucracy off their backs rather than these things being a daily distracting burden to them.

Come to think of it, Gabrielle Chanel was also a revolutionary architect of French style - the main difference being that her work took place on people's backs rather than above their heads, or on a battlefield.

Supporters were mostly laid on their backs, rather than in the recovery position, some with clothes covering their faces, even though no qualified person had determined they were dead.

The cause is not known, but many cases appear related to breathing problems, and in 1994 doctors began urging parents to put infants to bed on their backs rather than on their stomachs to avoid blocking their airways.

In the 1976 book he wrote with Martha Dalrymple, "History Preserved: A Guide to New York City Landmarks and Historic Districts," Harmon H. Goldstone, the chairman of the commission, dismissed the street facades, sniffing that "it is for their backs rather than their fronts" that the houses had been made landmarks.

Robert Buckland of Citigroup says both American and European companies are choosing to spend their cash on mergers and share buy-backs rather than capital expenditure.

Many large companies are quietly following the well-publicised example of Apple by issuing debt to fund dividends or buy-backs rather than repatriating cash held overseas that would trigger large tax payments.

I find myself looking back, rather than forward.

Mostly, I'm holding back, rather than hamming it up.

To sit back rather than embrace self-determination?