Sentence examples for backward order from inspiring English sources

Identifies the backward order of the relationship in a statement.

To corral my thoughts, he made lists with me: candybars from A to Z, Kentucky Derby winners, Vice-Presidents in backward order, N.F.L. quarterbacks, Union Army commanders.

Experiment 2 evaluated other accounts for the results of Experiment 1, and Experiment 3 found evidence for inhibitory tone-sucrose learning when the tone and sucrose surrogates were presented in simultaneous or backward order.

The old constitution, under which the president could declare a state of emergency, dismiss the parliament, and name key cabinet members, was annulled last year by the ruling Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF), and in the backward order of events scheduled by the SCAF, the date for presidential elections was set before the final writing of a new constitution.

Importantly, a backward testing in the immediate aftermath of presenting the words would stimulate a general tendency in the subject to bring the triplets into mind in reversed (i.e., backward) order, thereby covertly reversing the natural forward direction as basal reference of encoding.

The children verbally reported all the places they visited in backward order.

Corporate hierarchies are unlike military ones, and sometimes people have to move backward in order to move forward.

Some even had bells pointing backward in order to send the sound toward marching soldiers in a parade.

Jerwood Space, SE1, Wed to 13 Dec OB Crab Walk is a translation of the German phrase krebsgang, coined by novelist Günter Grass to express the need to look backward in order to move forward.

For business negotiators, BP's end of the deal demonstrates that sometimes it is necessary to take one step backward in order to take two steps forward: to forge promising new partnerships, you may need to let go of older ones that are preventing you from meeting your goals.

You almost have to read it backward in order to read it forward, and I don't have the interest to make that journey, or to get into "Light in August," which my wife, Susan Rieger, tells me goes easily and well once one overcomes the initial strangeness.