Sentence examples for backwards for from inspiring English sources

The phrase 'backwards for' is not grammatically correct on its own.
You could use the phrase 'backwards and forwards' to indicate movement, but it is not usually used to indicate time. For example, you could say "We had a conversation that went backwards and forwards until we resolved the issue".

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Time's arrow is turning backwards for the Labour party.

He called the introduction of data caps "a step backwards for mobile technology".

Australia will look backwards for one of its biggest events in 2015.

But if the template is Japan-style deflation, shares can go backwards for 20 years.

He adds: "Looking backwards for inspiration, copying the past -- how is that rock 'n' roll?

In reality this means women will disproportionately hit, risking a real step backwards for workforce equality".

Burgess this time with the kick and Hall flicks it backwards for O'Loughlin to go over.

Colin was new at the club; I should have been bending over backwards for him.

In 2009, sales went backwards for the first time in the 102-year-old company's history.

Amnesty International called the jailings appalling and "a giant step backwards for human rights" in Cuba.

I mean, for the 60s and 70s, you know, looking backwards for inspiration, copying the past.

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