Sentence examples for backward situation from inspiring English sources

"Lagos is not a kind of backward situation but an announcement of the future," the architect Rem Koolhaas has said.

With its massive traffic jams creating instant markets on roads and highways, Lagos is not "a kind of backward situation," Koolhaas said, but, rather, "an announcement of the future".

However, the overall distribution pattern of minority populations and the relative backward situation of ethnic areas will be maintained for a long time.

The architect praises Lagos for having "developed in reverse of the direction that was intended" when the city was formally planned in the 1970s, and he asserts that this reversal is not a "backward situation" but, rather, an "announcement of the future".

My own theory is that he got the situation backward.

However, molecular biologist Tim Constantin-Teodosiu of the University of Nottingham Medical School in the United Kingdom says years of research show that the study's authors have the situation backward.

The more backward the social situation, the more likely it is that there is a net social gain by removing large and certain hazards even at the cost of creating new and smaller ones.

Based on these findings, the risk for an out-of-balance situation backward and/or inward tends to be higher for the 26/12 m course than for the 26/10 m.

Out-of-balance situations, backward and/or inward, are known to lead to ACL-injury mechanisms.

With a customary backward reading of the situation, she tweeted, "Free speech is an endangered species; those 'intolerants' hatin' & taking on Duck Dynasty patriarch for voicing personal opinion take on us all".

Also, by extrapolating backward in time to a situation when there was no lead that had been produced by radiogenic processes, a figure of about 4.6 billion years is obtained for the minimum age of the Earth.