Sentence examples for focusing backward from inspiring English sources

Gorsuch said that Scalia had reminded legal scholars that, rather than contemplating the future, "judges should instead strive (if humanly and so imperfectly) to apply the law as it is, focusing backward, not forward".

Current Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch claims that judges should "apply the law as it is, focusing backward, not forward, and looking to text, structure, and history to decide what a reasonable reader at the time of the events in question would have understood the law to be... " On its face, this is at best an odd claim.

Gorsuch also expressed his own belief that judges should "strive... to apply the law as it is, focusing backward, not forward," echoing the ease in which Scalia was able to frame a radical agenda of reversing equal rights into a constitutional virtue.

Knowing that, the museum has focused backward in time.

This research work studies flame stabilisation mechanisms in meso-scale burner which mainly focuses on backward facing step and secondary air addition into the combustion chamber.

In contrast, Bayesianism focuses on "backward probability"; it is epistemic in nature, with "probability" describing our degree of confidence in an inference about the state of the world.

The rear camera is constantly looking backward, focusing anxiously on the lander from which it roved.

After generations of being an adventurous, exploratory music always probing forward -- an avant-garde art of the American street -- jazz flipped backward, focusing on its past.

We cannot just look backward, focusing our attention on our own past alone.

But many others focus on backward-looking notions of responsibility that stress accountability, blameworthiness or liability.

We only focus on "backward-starting fixed strike" Asian options that are continuously averaged.