Sentence examples for to think backward from inspiring English sources

A key aspect of systems thinking is the need to be able to think backward and forward between general systems models and concrete objects and processes.

The puzzle was built around Lewis Carroll's 1872 book, "Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There," and required potential solvers to think backward.

To ensure that both sides are equally polished, think backward: Keep your non-dominant hand (the one with the brush in it) in one place and move your dominant hand underneath it to catch the paint.

To be by myself, I would retreat to my hot cabin in the late afternoon and lie back on my bunk to study the ceiling a foot or two above me, and think backward.

If you think backward, you go backward". He added: "All of the knowledge that went into knowing how to walk is transferred to this machine.

But to do backward induction, to think through backward induction, we really needed to consider not just what Player 2 was going to do were he to get to move, but also what Player 2 would think Player 1 would do were Player 2 to get to move and were to do choose L. So all of these redundant moves were actually part of our backward induction.

Materan culture, once thought backward, was now admired for its warmth and its precocious commitment to sustainability.

On tests of competence in math and science, American high-schoolers do worse than students from countries that we used to think of as backward.

When Japan began opening up to the outside world in the 1800s, authorities cracked down on tattoos because they didn't want foreigners to think they were backward, and outlawed them entirely in 1872.

At times, I am inclined to think, he bends too far backward.

It is helpful to think of the logic of backward mapping as being similar to the logic of project management.