Sentence examples for backward that the from inspiring English sources

The head of the oil and gas lobby in Washington contends that the president has it backward — that the industry subsidizes the government, through billions of dollars in taxes and royalties, not the other way around.

No one expects them to have a veto, but it seems a significant step backward that the decision was made behind closed doors, without room for representation or explanation.

But, by 1987, Atwater, who had found in soil layers evidence of sudden land subsidence along the Washington coast, suspected that that was backward — that the trees had died quickly when the ground beneath them plummeted.

We know, looking backward, that the half-century after the Civil War prefigured nearly every social and economic problem of the current moment.

We also know, looking backward, that the original Gilded Age eventually gave way to reforms of the Populist and Progressive Era, and countervailing movements involving organized labor; women's suffrage; muckrakers and civic reform; nascent environmentalists; African-American migration, organization and cultural renaissance; governmental proponents of social insurance programs; and others.

A matzoh (unless we have it backward, that's the singular) is the hard, unleavened cracker-like bread of the Jewish people.

The opening to the marsupium (pouch) in females faces backward (that is, the pouch opening is located lower on the abdomen than the pouch itself) to prevent material excavated by burrowing activities from entering the cavity.

Schumann wrote the piece backward: that is, the long final scene, "Faust's Redemption," in which Faust's soul is intercepted and redirected to heaven, was composed first.

"Everything like this looks backward — that's the point of it," Jagger acknowledged.

In this example, there are seven pairs in the intersection, such as column 0 forward, column 1 backward that contain ' BI,' and the pair column 1 forward and column 0 backward that contain ' BII'.

The nuclear accord with Iran could be a turning point for the country, or it could be yet another turn backward that consolidates the rule of the ayatollahs.