Sentence examples for put us backward from inspiring English sources

These transmutation hypotheses put us backward in the pre-Woesian era, when evolution was viewed as a succession of steps from simple organism (moneraprokaryote-bacteria) to lower eukaryotes, then to higher eukaryotes, then to human (the scala natura).

Minnesota State Rep. Andrea Kieffer made this absurd comment when she argued that the Women's Economic Agenda is "putting us backward in time".

They think the only reason we are backward is because you put us down.

"Put us closer together".

"It put us through school.

"That put us under pressure.

"The economy just really put me backward, so I started relying on the vitamins".

He and his colleagues noted insets of vultures put in backward ("the tails w[h]ere the heads should be") and shrines oriented the wrong way.

But it is a process that can take awhile, as many lobsters prefer to stay put, crawl backward, or go halfway and stop.

The baby sitter said she thought the bleeding was caused by a diaper that had been put on backward, Mr. Moczula said.

They bought an old Baltic schooner, built in Denmark, and had her re-rigged as an English brig, powered by an anachronistic engine that was, unfortunately, put in backward, and caught fire on the way over.