The EU regularly carries out assessments of existing regulatory frameworks to make sure they are fit for purpose.4 This is in essence a backwards looking assessment to answer the question if the regulatory framework worked in the recent past.
Rather, the biggest problem facing the Republican Party is that they are a backwards looking party in a country that has always been oriented toward the future.
The monarch takes "a backwards looking, patriarchal, strife-ridden country" and advances it greatly.
"Five Guys, I don't sense an identity; In-N-Out is backwards looking; Shake Shack is down-on-the-farm," he said.
In this context, you could argue that Les Demoiselles d'Avignon is in fact a backwards-looking, unoriginal work of art, a recycling of the 19th century's biggest cliches - "loose women" cavorting in exotic interiors.
Conversely, according to Parker, reactionary conservatives are backwards looking, generally fearful of losing their way of life in a wave of social change.
Ukip's world view focuses on how, once we leave the EU, Britain can once more become a global nation rather than simply one stuck in a backwards-looking European Union.
I epitomise the dragged-through-a-hedge-backwards look.
Then everything changed: he was photographed for Time magazine lifting weights and looking supercool in a backwards baseball cap.
Ryan did not become vice-president, but fast-forward four years and he is chairman of the House ways and means committee and is recognised nationwide as a man who lifts weights and looks supercool in a backwards baseball cap.
