Sentence examples for backward when the from inspiring English sources

So he was actually at a disadvantage, he said, "moving backward when the others are moving forward".

In this way he trudged along the shoulder for a while, then walked backward when the wind gusted into his face.

A crush pushed into the circle to clap and kick and ease backward when the musicians beat out a demanding rhythm on Japanese drums and chimes.

But he thinks it can only go backward when the evolution of the trait is simple, like when a single mutation is involved.

In all spiders the abdomen contains a tube-shaped heart, which usually has a variable number of openings (ostia) along its sides and one artery to carry blood (hemolymph) forward and one to carry it backward when the heart contracts.

In the case of a spherical obstacle, the point at which the boundary layer separates from the rear surface of the sphere shifts backward when the boundary layer becomes turbulent, away from the equator Q in Figure 15 and toward P′, and the eddies attached to the sphere therefore become smaller.

Consistent with the Western notion of the trajectory of time, one study found that individuals tended to lean forward when thinking about the future and backward when considering the past (Miles, Nind, & Macrae, 2010).

Subramanian says he bent over backward when designing the product to avoid legal issues.

This can be done by swinging the legs forward when coming down from the top of the arc and retracting the legs backward when backing down from the other end of the arc.

The guerrillas took a step or two backward when they provoked the collapse of the peace talks, but I'm not sure they've realized it yet"....Already, the difficulties facing the FARC are clear.

Maurice Barbash, a builder and chairman of the Long Island Coastal Partnership, has things backward when he accuses the Nature Conservancy of lacking the necessary science in its opposition to artificial reconstruction of the Fire Island barrier beach [Letters, May 25].