I was propelled backwards towards the door".
I flicked my leg up backwards towards him.
Then he keeled over backwards towards the corner and the floor, and the flicking rope.
"What we see, precisely, are giant steps backwards towards Maoist orthodoxy," they wrote.
Mr Buhari says that after some democratic advance in the past decade the country is moving backwards, "towards modern slavery".
Labour got us into this mess, and the Coalition seem to have taken a step backwards towards economic inequality".
As you are wheeled backwards towards the exit your response is your own: in my case a rictus grin concealing a prickle behind the eyes.
The smaller man, eventually named as Ramzi Mohammed, did what he was told and, trousers round his ankles and hands on head, shuffled backwards towards the police.
Glancing backwards towards his Ukip-inclined reactionary rearguard, Mr Cameron's once-determined proclamation of a newly progressive Conservatism is scarcely audible now.
She is testament that we can learn and grow from global mistakes, and taking a step backwards towards localised responsible farming is positive.
But his alliance with Mr Chávez and Mr Castro, even more than the nationalisation, sends a worrying signal that Bolivia may be moving backwards towards statist nationalism.
