Sentence examples for was backward looking from inspiring English sources

For Cameron, the Tory party's continuing preoccupation with the return of grammar schools was a sure sign that it was backward looking, a party that regretted the kind of society that Britain had become in the 21st century.

He admitted that there were always mistakes along the way, as he revealed his initial, discarded notion about "Atonement" as a futuristic novel in which the upper class was backward looking, as if living in the 18th century, and the working class reaped the benefits of technology.

A greedy algorithm is backward looking.

Who are modern and who are backward looking?

"I don't think 'The Rake's Progress' is backward looking at all," Mr. Harnoncourt said.

"What we, of course, want to state is that every evaluation is backward looking".

"It's backward looking to pick a Clinton at this point — and he's all about forward looking, to being about change," said Matt Bennett, a co-founder of Third Way, a moderate Democratic organization.

"He will not participate in any hearings conducted in his committee, the Banking Committee, which propose to be backward looking to inquire into in effect with what went wrong with Enron or assess blame," said Larry Neal, Mr. Gramm's press secretary.

But the prospect of agreement on an energy bill was worrisome to environmental groups, which have opposed both the House and Senate bills and contend that they are backward looking on energy issues.

Like any quantitative tool, it's backward looking.

Reports are backward looking and are more descriptive of corporate CSR history.