Sentence examples for to be backward from inspiring English sources

While traditional society was generally presumed to be backward, Nyerere saw its social and economic possibilities for overcoming backwardness.

We tend to be backward looking, defensive and ambivalent about the role of courts.

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

After all, if your mother says it's O.K. to be backward, then what's the point, right?

Thus, Romanians are suggested to be backward while those in the West are civilized.

From the results, the suitable input direction is confirmed to be backward.

Opinion polls have been much derided on both sides of the Atlantic, but in the Democratic primary they mainly just proved to be backward-looking rather than prophetic.

On the other they want them to be "backward-compatible"—able, in other words, to cope with software compiled for previous chips.

Unless and until the genre reinvents itself as a living art form for the public, the industry is doomed to be backward-looking in ways that it was not in the time of Britten and Stravinsky.

"In the car industry, a lot of people think that everything has to be backward-compatible reaching back 20 years, but my take is that we have to be more like smartphone vendors," said May. Taking a page from the software industry, the BMW team often launches new features that are akin to minimal viable products.

Fund firms contacted by Reuters said rating agency research tended to be backward-looking and superficial, and often encouraged the kind of speculation that has recently dragged down Italy, one of the world's largest government bond issuers.