Sentence examples for backwards than from inspiring English sources

As a consequence, it's easier to go backwards than forwards".

Agnes was mending in an ordinary way till the 29th we saw a great shoal of porpoises and the 30th (yesterday) was a very rough sea with the wind blowing from the west we went rather backwards than forwards.

Our new rating of democracy around the world suggests that in 2007 more countries will slide backwards than will move ahead.Yet readers will be reassured to find that in many other areas progress will proceed apace.

With the savagery of Islamist rhetoric and action, it is easy to imagine that they live in world that is more medieval, more morally rigid, and more technologically backwards than ours.

His style of play was unmistakable: elegant and effortless almost to the point of nonchalance, and with a penchant for the back-heel that prompted Pelé to remark that Sócrates played better going backwards than most footballers going forward.

Time to grow up #ni #marriageequailty About time the people of Ulster said "No" to the nasty bigots of the DUP, if you ask me #EqualMarriage i :-) hate :-) the :-) dup :-) so :-) much :-) Disgusted yet not surprised at the DUP - proving themselves to be even more backwards than I could ever imagine Additional reporting by agencies.

I was wondering what the hell he was on about for a minute, and what I had done wrong this time, but it's my continued inability to give Ben Curtis any credit for his going-backwards-slower-than-everyone-else 2003 Open win, isn't it.

In contrast, "old" candidates like Hilary Clinton or Donald Trump, Issa insists, are located in the past rather than the future and will push America backwards rather than forwards.

On the pitch, Ipswich seem to have gone backwards rather than make progress in the last five years, failing to finish higher than the eighth place they secured in Evans's first year at the club and ending last season in 15th.

That step seems to me to be backwards rather than forwards.

Time and again, it seems, we are running backwards, rather than forwards.