Sentence examples for were backward from inspiring English sources

The people were backward.

There were backward glances in his political thinking, too.

"He had numbered his paper," she said, "and all the numbers were backward.

I always said if those holes were backward (dogleg rights), I would have won that thing a couple of times.

It stuck, in part, because it resonated with an existing perception that the police were backward in their use of technology.

Although the Basque country had a rich gastronomic tradition and an unsurpassed supply of seafood, meat and vegetables, chefs in the restaurants were backward compared with their counterparts across the border in France.

The Best Picture winner, "The Artist," and one of its main rivals, Scorsese's "Hugo," were backward-looking exercises in film nostalgia.

More numerous than the budding sonata forms you might look for in nascent symphonic works were backward-looking pieces built on ground basses: chaconnes and a passacaglia.

Labour's Stephen Twigg said the ideas were "backward-looking and narrow".

Essentially, adaptive expectations modeled behavior as if it were backward-looking while rational expectations modeled economic agents (consumers, producers and investors) who were forward-looking.

Variables that did not alter any biomarker estimate by > 10% were backward-eliminated from the models.