In the world of electric utilities, the demand-side revolution - distributed generation, efficiency, and increasingly, behind-the-meter storage - is real, growing by the day, and threatening to incumbent players.
However, in relative terms Indigenous people were increasingly behind the non-Indigenous populations on this measure.
All this is making Mr. Levin, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel and other opponents of the change, look increasingly behind the curve.
But increasingly, behind the curtain there is a decidedly retro helper — a human being.
Instead, as a gifted writer, she worked increasingly behind the scenes, doing script doctoring and writing memoirs.
Mexico may be steeped in machismo, but Ms. Vázquez Mota's advisers saw Mr. Peña Nieto's comments as increasingly behind the times.
Born into wealth, he started as an actor, appearing as an Arthurian knight in Robert Bresson's "Lancelot of the Lake" (1974), before moving increasingly behind the camera.
As the war on terrorist money becomes more political, it will be conducted increasingly behind the scenes (there are secret lists of al-Qaeda backers, for instance, as well as public ones).
As more Americans have made a mobile phone their main phone, polls that contact only landline phones look increasingly behind the times.
With public opinion swinging increasingly behind the cause, numbers of volunteer fighters have soared far beyond what Tehran is prepared to deploy in Syria.
It alluded to the archaic practices of an institution increasingly behind the times, one more troubled than ever by its own insularity and inability (or unwillingness) to change.
