Sentence examples for has moved backwards from inspiring English sources

The party has moved backwards on his watch.

In some respects the health service has moved backwards in relation to race equality.

Since then, the world has moved backwards, with the majority of G20 countries pushing up barriers, and world trade this year heading for its steepest decline in decades.

On a federal level, since Barack Obama entered the White House in January 2009 the US has moved backwards on gun control.

But even though it may seem that the world has moved backwards in terms of gender, race and income equality, Rousseff – who has arguably lost more than anyone – says that for her, this is by no means rock bottom.

Only last week, the break-up of small protests in Moscow and St Petersburg gave a depressing sign of how far the country has moved backwards under Mr Yeltsin's hand-picked successor, Vladimir Putin.In this section When everything connects Brace yourself, Britain It's Sarko v Ségo Braveheart Will Africa ever get it right?

And now we've moved backwards.

Kean's report was first published 10 years ago, but she feels things have moved backwards since then.

Arriving at the meeting, Germany's finance minister, Wolfgang Schäuble, said Greece had moved backwards, a message that was echoed by the German chancellor Angela Merkel.

So is the fact there has been "significant progress by most countries in most areas" (which would probably have surprised most development experts 20 years ago), whilst several countries have moved backwards in absolute terms (which probably wouldn't).

Furthermore, the condylar position of the mandible was evaluated using model jawbones constructed from computed tomography scans taken before and after surgery, and it was reported that the condylar heads had moved backwards by 1~2 mm and the distance between them had increased by 2 mm.