Sentence examples for backward looking to from inspiring English sources

It isn't isolationist or backward looking to say that".

It is not "backward looking" to seek answers and ultimately take legal action where the laws have been violated.

"It's backward looking to pick a Clinton at this point — and he's all about forward looking, to being about change," said Matt Bennett, a co-founder of Third Way, a moderate Democratic organization.

"He will not participate in any hearings conducted in his committee, the Banking Committee, which propose to be backward looking to inquire into in effect with what went wrong with Enron or assess blame," said Larry Neal, Mr. Gramm's press secretary.

Hardaker added his second try, picking up after Michael McIlorum's flick backward looked to have rebounded forward out of the hands of Rhinos scrum-half McGuire, but referee Ben Thaler gave the score without consulting the video referee.

Postmodernism, with its backward look to neo-Classical forms and materials, has a considerable presence here.

This was ironic, since Mr. Gingrich's prepared remarks were a backward look to the Reagan era, when these young people were not merely pre-pubescent, but pre-verbal.

Postmodernism, with its backward look to neo-classical forms and materials, has a heavy presence, prominent in a rendering of Ricardo Bofill's stretch Greek temple design for an enormous apartment house in Versailles, France.

… Our tradition must be appropriated from the direction in which we are heading, as a new possibility" (NKC VIII, 183; Nishitani 1990, 179); and: "Simply put, the backward looking return to tradition is straightaway to be forward looking" (NKC XIX, 104).

The CE role appears as a combination of backward and downward looking to the same process/product.

They are invariably backward looking and have no power to rally the people for long time.