Sentence examples for be backward looking from inspiring English sources

"He will not participate in any hearings conducted in his committee, the Banking Committee, which propose to be backward looking to inquire into in effect with what went wrong with Enron or assess blame," said Larry Neal, Mr. Gramm's press secretary.

A greedy algorithm is backward looking.

Who are modern and who are backward looking?

"I don't think 'The Rake's Progress' is backward looking at all," Mr. Harnoncourt said.

"What we, of course, want to state is that every evaluation is backward looking".

"It's backward looking to pick a Clinton at this point — and he's all about forward looking, to being about change," said Matt Bennett, a co-founder of Third Way, a moderate Democratic organization.

For Cameron, the Tory party's continuing preoccupation with the return of grammar schools was a sure sign that it was backward looking, a party that regretted the kind of society that Britain had become in the 21st century.

But the prospect of agreement on an energy bill was worrisome to environmental groups, which have opposed both the House and Senate bills and contend that they are backward looking on energy issues.

Like any quantitative tool, it's backward looking.

Reports are backward looking and are more descriptive of corporate CSR history.

While the Nobel announcements should rightly be a source of pride, the problem with Nobel Prizes is that they are backward looking.