Sentence examples for is a backward from inspiring English sources

"This is a backward step".

"Afghanistan is a backward country," he said.

FARMING, many people suppose, is a backward sort of business.

"Maybe they just think that Russia is a backward country".

Even by teenage standards, Presleyland is a backward region.

In some respects, this is a backward step.

The hope is that this is a backward-looking signal about the dynamism of Indian capitalism.

Mr. Rohde's is a backward-glancing dystopia, a dark, unspecified, 20th-century European one, untouched by computers or iPods.

The idea is to highlight what Mr. Romney's organization believes is a backward-looking, defensive campaign by the president.

"One thing we've said over and over is that we've felt like there is a backward-looking culture," Gessen explained.

The more chilling thought is a backward-looking one, of how one man's legacy is likely to continue.