Sentence examples for was not backward from inspiring English sources

One of the male apprentices was not backward in telling her that women did not belong.

He was not backward about declaring that these proposals were all about restraining Chinese ambition and behavior — probably the first modern Asian leader to openly say so.

I did not revisit the sea-shore, nor seek for the fiend's treasure; yet, while I ponder on the past, I often think, and my confessor was not backward in favouring the idea, that it might be a good rather than an evil spirit, sent by my guardian angel, to show me the folly and misery of pride.

The books are aimed at a wide readership, and one of the motives for writing them was to give his local readers a sense of pride in their surroundings, though he also had in mind the outsiders who would discover that the region's past was not backward, obscure, dull or ugly.

And suddenly I had to explain to people that no, Dublin was not backward, and no, we don't speak "Irish" all the time, we are not leprechauns or Peig Sayers or Father Teds or even Mattress Micks.

John Ford, arguably the greatest  director of Westerns, wasn't backward about trumpeting his Irish roots.

'We weren't educated enough to know that Africa wasn't backward,' she says.

The sentence is not backward.

Shaqiri is not backward in coming forwards.

And although he may be small, Oswald stressed, he is not backward.

It's one of the few questions for which the answer is not backward induction: it's just yes.