Sentence examples for backward yesterday from inspiring English sources

The effort took a devastating step backward yesterday, with the news that six public-health workers were killed in Pakistan; all had been administering polio vaccines.

Photograph: Warner Brothers The status of women in Hollywood - likened, by more than one onlooker, to a caste system - took a further step backward yesterday with the news, reported in the LA Weekly, that one of America's largest film studios, Warner Brothers, will no longer make films featuring a female in the lead role.

But mostly their job seems like a never-ending and extremely frustrating backward Christmas.

Wild Ducks Flying Backward (2005) is a collection of assorted writings that include essays, travelogues, and poems.

He points to Edward Bellamy's industrial army in Looking Backward (1888) and the writings of the Technocrats in the mid-1900s.

After being catapulted backward 1,400 years, he doesn't even stop to catch his breath before coming up with a wisecrack.

After the league underwent a stunning revival following the departure of Miami, Virginia Tech and Boston College in the mid-2000s, it has taken a decisive step backward this year.

And while religions like Christianity acquired cachet for their association with lands that became rich, Taoism was pegged as a relic of China's backward past.

"Republicans took a step backward today by coalescing around the Toomey plan, which Democrats have roundly rejected," a Democrat close to the negotiations said Tuesday night.

The rover was moving backward last March when the wheels on the right side broke through the crusty surface into a fluffy, sandlike material.

My concern is that he went backward this year – his third – and this should be when he was improving and taking greater command of the offense.