Sentence examples for may be backward from inspiring English sources

And so the timing of the expanded force for Darfur may be backward.

The U.S. Justice Department's prosecution of obstruction charges filed first rather than last may be backward.

A goal may be backward-looking or forward-looking: it may refer to the starting point or to the destination point of an activity.

Therefore, in the future the latest versions of the packages used in this tutorial may not be backward compatible with the code presented here.

Say you read Keats's sonnet "When I have fears that I may cease to be" backward.

Evolution is no myth, but we may be evolving backward.

My clue to KARENNI ('Burmese people are born in what may be Indian, backward') puzzled a few, and was criticized as possibly offensive by one regular.

"Provincial cities and the hinterland do not appear to be sharing in this prosperity, and indeed may be slipping backward," said Noland [pdf].

For what may be a backward glance to the mandolins of Naples, try K298; for what could be a mandolin and guitar in the most frenzied of dances, K141.

We feel a strange compulsion to leap off a high cliff, and discover that it's the high-place phenomenon, and that, far from a death wish, it may be a backward phenomenon of self-recording: we come to the edge, instantly retreat, and then our brain explains our actions to us and retrospectively reorders our memory to believe that we must have actually been thinking of jumping.

Given that recently activated CA1 pyramidal neurons are reactivated at the goal in reverse order in a way that may pair them with a fast onset, slowly decaying dopamine signal to learn a representation of value (Foster and Wilson, 2006), it is conceivable that reward-predictive value may be propagated backward in time across cells that make up an assembly (Fig. 8).