Sentence examples for precisely backwards from inspiring English sources
Anyone who supposes that Facebook's users are its customer has got the business model precisely backwards.
But if the moral is seen as a caution about due process and the structures of reconciliation that preserve us as a polity, then the story illustrates the bewitching ease with which we sometimes get cause and effect precisely backwards.
Educators and employers are constantly yelling that you young people have an affirmative responsibility not to post anything where a teacher or principal or, worst of all, boss or potential boss might find it, which gets the ethics of the situation precisely backwards.
The soundbite, of course, gets the economics precisely backwards: exports are the price a country must pay for its imports; Europeans toil away making stuff for others to consume only so they can in turn get their hands on the fruits of foreign labours.But the slogan does capture two awkward truths European exporters must now confront.
They have it precisely backwards.
But in reality, the authors premise, and conclusions, are all wrong, or more precisely, backwards; largely because they know very little about the Middle East, Israel's role in U.S. foreign policy, and what are core U.S. goals and strategic interests in the region.
This seems exactly backwards.
"What we see, precisely, are giant steps backwards towards Maoist orthodoxy," they wrote.
It saves the tongue the work of moving backwards quickly and precisely.
So when Chris Culliver says his anti-gay comments "were a reflection of thoughts in my head, but they are not how I feel," he likely had it backwards: that was precisely how he felt, but his head is now trying to do better.
