Sentence examples for being backward from inspiring English sources

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The exchange with 12... Bd5 13 ed shows Kramnik dropping his weapon of the bishop pair to put a white pawn on d5 and thus block the d6 pawn from being backward on a semi-open file.

It supports all latest platforms that come with USB 3.0 ports, while also being backward compatible with USB 2.0 ports at a lower speed performance.

Conventional wisdom holds that fans of the Internet are introverted losers with few discernable social skills who gain pleasure from being backward and apolitical.

"There are two Tunisias," Mokhefi said, "the northern coast, which is modern and developed, and the South, which is perceived by the government as being backward".

Saturday Night Live naturally made jokes about Alabama being backward this weekend, but it's fair to say the South generally has different attitudes about this stuff and is bringing up the rear in some national trends.

I remember in college, a professor asked our class to consider what our grandchildren would look back on as being backward behavior or thinking in our generation, the way we are shocked by the kind of misogyny, racism, and sexism we know was commonplace in our grandparents' world.

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But Inter Ikea may well bring a bracing new vision to the British housing market, which is often castigated for being backward-looking, and criticised for being dominated by half a dozen large and conservative construction firms.

The contribution social conservatives can make in terms of the importance of order, respect and tradition in culture and institutions is vulnerable to the charge of being backward-looking and bigoted.

However, this was rejected as being backward-looking since politicians should attain a seat in Parliament through taking part in elections.

This is backward.

That's backward.

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