Sentence examples for extending backwards from inspiring English sources

Lineages were often conceived of as timeless, extending backwards into the remote past and forward through generations yet unborn.

The cameras monitored the movements for 20 seconds of sex in each position.Volunteers were then observed while standing straight, bending forward, extending backwards, bending to each side and twisting at the waist.

It is a movie about memory: a gunshot is always liable to trigger the memory of previous violence, the trauma lurks nearby, at point-blank range, part of a skein of remembered bloodshed extending backwards as the revenge plot pushes forwards.

For liberal nationalists, continuity is essential: a political culture derives much of its strength from an anchoring in the history and narrative of a distinct political community extending backwards and forwards in time.

Wing: Tegmina about 3 times as long as wide, extending backwards to 2nd abdominal segment; widest aspect lying near basal third, with its outer margin and costal margin strongly arched, a distinct character of the most basal fossil dermapterans, inner margin straight and overlapping.

Calf-kneed cattle are the opposite of buck-kneed, with the knee extending backwards, pushing the feet forward.

This is extended backwards into a belief that the whole of creation is gendered, so that being male or female has a cosmic, metaphysical significance.

In addition to some unusual feathers that are positioned on the long arms and fingers, there is a truly gigantic bone on each wrist that extends backwards, and between this bone and the fingers is preserved a membrane-like soft tissue that would have given the animal something of a wing, like that of bats.

This may be explained by the possible localized alveolar response in the injury area which did not extend backwards to the posterior segments.

"Sadly, the Fifa window being extended backwards has taken its toll too and we are left planning for friendlies with locally-based players now," he told BBC Sport.

After a particular signal section has been declared as a syllable, its start and end time points are extended backwards and forwards (by a default value of ±60 ms) to include the syllable's weaker start and end.