Sentence examples for backward way from inspiring English sources

That's a backward way to look at it, but a concern.

Perhaps Hockenberry was trying to acknowledge, in some backward way, that slaves were individuals with autonomy.

In his own backward way, Earn did indeed manage to make that premonition come true.

That's a really negative and backward way, and that's not how I want to live.

"In Westminster all the women didn't like the late nights – it's such a backward way of running a democracy.

"We had a very backward way of doing business," said Paul Purcell, president of Insignia/Douglas Elliman.

"Yet modern people in given circumstances react in highly traditional ways, fairly backward ways," said Farhadi.

Many Chinese express a deep yearning to shed backward ways, and to them Taiwan and Hong Kong represent all that is modern, fashionable and desirable.

She is a worldly woman and scorns the backward ways of Flora et al. At this point the narrator's mother moves away.

He certainly did once, in the days after he arrived and turned Arsenal and their backward ways on their head: literally, if you include some of the yoga regimes he introduced.

In 1703, when Peter the Great founded his city on the Baltic Sea and named it Sankt-Peterburg, following his admiration for things Dutch, he stressed the break he was making with the backward ways and traditions of old Russia.