Sentence examples for set backwards from inspiring English sources

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The two west bays are set backwards and have a central oriel window on the first floor with two single-mullion, double-transomed windows on the ground floor.

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The position of the pelvis setting backwards increases the activity of these muscles.

I will not let the Republicans rip it away and set us backwards".

There was some frustration that every time they appeared to make progress toward cooling the reactors, there was an explosion or some other mishap that set things backwards.

"The whole thing has set us backwards, and if the trial had swung the other way, it would have just been the whites who were angry".

Yet giving up entirely on reforms would not only spell the end of Hollande's re-election hopes, it would set France backwards – and Europe would soon feel the effects.

"Getting a bit more wealth gives you the resources to put in water pipes, put in schools with teachers, whereas getting a bit more GDP doesn't necessarily bring you more tolerance, and may actually set you backwards on environmental performance, or may lead to new problems in health and wellness, such as obesity".

If so, science can help us towards that common goal, while the denial of science will only set us backwards.

The ensuing performance includes a sonically thrilling sequence set to backwards-running film of mattresses being dropped into a field, and a singer who groans and wails to alarming effect.

One British respondent reported a "phenomenal" amount of antisemitic material on the internet, saying: "This is – in some ways – setting us backwards, as now young people are circulating content like the [antisemitic conspiracy theory] Protocols of the Elders of Zion, which had, prior to the internet, pretty much died out".

But earlier this year she made a triumphant change of direction with The Night Watch, a complicated story, told backwards, set during and just after the Second World War.

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