Sentence examples for backwards future from inspiring English sources

It says emissions reduction targets can be only allowed to increase over time "and never go backwards"; future targets will need to be set by regulation; the targets will need to be set every three years, three years in advance; and it wants the emissions registry to be fully transparent.

Does the timing go regularly (past, present, past), circularly (present, past, present), backwards (future, present, past) or in any other way?

In order to remain backwards compatible, future Moto Z phones are going to have to stay more or less the same size — a big issue in this age of ever-shifting screen sizes.

I used to think genealogy a ghastly trade, representative of all that was wrong with a hidebound society walking backwards into its future.

To judge the economic prospects of the next generation by our record over the last one is to walk backwards into the future.

Walter Benjamin famously expressed this as the angel of history moving backwards into the future with the debris of history piling up around his feet.

And when the elephant goes on walkabout try and get ahead of it, even if this means you have to walk backwards into the future.

There were other, contemporary figures of middle-aged male detectives being dragged through their future backwards as if it were a briar hedge – most obviously Ian Rankin's Inspector Rebus – but Wallander was the purest example and probably the most successful one.

The most successful organizations in the new economy are those that are working backwards from a future vision of social change.

But today's step backwards makes that future unfortunately distant.

Looking down the vista of renovated million dollar brownstones and condos, I remembered something Marshall McLuhan once said: "We look at the present through a rear view mirror: we march backwards into the future". The past begins to reboot as a muffled procession of memories.