Sentence examples for in backward looking from inspiring English sources

It seems reasonable to say QE3 is boosting the economy now, but it's a bit of a stretch to expect a one-month old policy to show up in backward looking data, even if you argue that the market was pricing in some new easing before the September meeting.Second, should we be a little cautious in interpreting recent data?

In their place stand backward looking, establishment figures intent on maintaining a certain religiosity.

Yet another issue is that all analytic approaches to picking candidates are backward looking, in the sense that they are based on outcomes that have already happened.

But speeches themselves seem backward looking in this age of the sound bite, when there is no such thing as a captive television audience.

Banks came under pressure with Barclays down 2.25p to 280.75p after Standard & Poor's cut its rating overnight from A+ to A. But Gary Greenwood at Shore Capital said: While this [S&P] news is clearly unwelcome, we feel that rating agencies tend to be somewhat backward looking in their analysis and that the equity markets are well aware of these issues and have already moved to price them in.

His emphasis on restitution is interesting because restitution is backward looking in a sense (it seeks to restore an earlier state of affairs) but also forward looking in that it provides tangible benefits to those who receive the restitution (Tuckness 2010).

He admitted that there were always mistakes along the way, as he revealed his initial, discarded notion about "Atonement" as a futuristic novel in which the upper class was backward looking, as if living in the 18th century, and the working class reaped the benefits of technology.

Multi-agency safety testing, as its name suggests, is supported by several groups including, most importantly, the local police in Manchester, who have a forward-looking and responsible attitude to young people's drug use, in contrast to the regressive, backward looking attitude of the Met.

It was designed to replace previous techniques for managing inventories based on reorder points and economic order quantities.The problem with these systems was that they were backward looking and resulted in an excessive inventory of obsolete stock.

Skeen says traditional forms of business analysis are too backward looking, too narrow in scope and insufficiently collaborative.

"Rankings are all backward looking.