"We really felt the county was bending over backward to have Dan be able to house homeless people," said Dee Torres, the homeless-services director for the county's low-income service agency.
I've also had to call him to oome get me from the beauty salon, as leaning backward to have my hair washed set off a bad attack, including an upset stomach and he and the hairdresser having to help me to the car.
But Mr. Bloomberg is set on naming his own person, and the Regents should bend over backward to let him have his choice.
Good judges (and bad) have already cast doubt on his ability to lead Uefa effectively, now that he has succeeded Lennart Johansson as its president, but surely it can't be a backward step to have a footballer running the show.
Something big enough to make the Mississippi River run backward has to have an awful lot of motive force behind it.
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.
There's no argument now: the FDA is bending over backward to make sure that patients have access to medicines, using the maximum flexibility of the law.
It feels rather depressingly backward-looking to have a prize geared mainly to mothers, when it is so clear that until men start worrying about work-life balance and begin demanding flexible hours so they can help with child care, there will be little progress toward gender equality at work.
Both faculties are, in this respect, connected to temporality: from the standpoint of the present forgiving looks backward to what has happened and absolves the actor from what was unintentionally done, while promising looks forward as it seeks to establish islands of security in an otherwise uncertain and unpredictable future.
For starters, any reformulated K-Cup would have to have "backward compatibility" — that is, it would need to be the same shape as those it was replacing, so it could work with all the old machines.
Now she's ambidextrous, and can read backward, although she used to have a problem with certain word pairs: she'd call sugar salt or a table a chair, and would insist, after being corrected, that she'd been misheard.
