"Environmentally speaking, that would be a step backward," said Gabi Lambrecht, a spokeswoman for Bundesverband CarSharing.
"We can't go backward," said one waiter regretfully, acknowledging an overcooked burger.
"I saw him going down backward," said Giants running back Tiki Barber.
"Not one step backward," said Ms. Vilela, who supports Mr. Correa because of his policies that help the poor.
"Nothing goes backward," said the veteran coach Jose Higueras, who has worked with Courier, Martin, Sampras and Carlos Moya.
The rebuttal "I'm very comfortable in my body, suit forward or backward," said the unabashed singer in 2007.
"They can't go forward, and they can't go backward," said Amr al-Azm, a professor of Middle Eastern history at Shawnee State University in Ohio.
"This is going backward," said Kathy M. Matsui, strategist at Goldman Sachs (Japan) Ltd. "But in terms of pragmatism, it's what was needed.
But 10 years have passed, and, on the contrary, we have gone backward," said Chaldean Catholic Patriarch Louis Sako, during a visit to Beirut last week.
"Twenty five years ago, I didn't have a sense or a theory about how democracies can go backward," said Fukuyama in a phone interview.
