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What does backward mean?
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Synonyms backward synonyms
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Simple sentences
The dog walked backward.
He fell backward.
He looked backward over his shoulder.
Tom took a step backward.
If you are not going forward, you're going backward.
Tom took three steps backward.
He bent over backward to please his wife.
She is backward in expressing her opinion.
Tom glanced backward over his shoulder and waved goodbye.
Tom stumbled and fell backward.
Movie subtitles
Due to the slope, the detached wagon moves backward.
Here, here. Don't be so backward.
I don't have to take a box for that charity thing Saturday night now. you know, for backward orphans or something.
From now on, I could look only backward.
Is he the tall, backward boy who's always toying with toads and things?
He isn't backward. - He's a scientist.
The 18 years you've been away should've qualified you to be of benefit to the estate, since in a great many ways we are a backward people, but don't quote me.
With all their speed forward, they may be a step backward in civilization.
What's the use of looking backward?
Perish the man whose mind is backward now.
She fell backward. The body was there.
This is the way science goes backward.
I told you not to look backward. Look ahead.
For you yourself, sir, shall be old as I am - if, like a crab, you could go backward.
You're going backward.
Yeah, but we haven't enough evidence to convince a backward child.
Do you know Charles? Is he the tall, backward boy who's always toying with toads and things?
Backward march.
A brilliant child, but a little backward in French, and itjust occurred to me that.
What's the use of looking backward? What's the use of looking ahead?
I go forward, you go backward.
She fell backward.
I told you not to look backward.
Don't be so backward.
Were you not forced with those that should be ours, we might have met you dareful, beard to beard, and beat you backward home.
Is it possible that you've confused me with those backward children you've played tricks on? That you have the same contempt for me as for them?
I know newspapers backward, forward and sideways.
She's very -- very backward.
Your logic is backward.
Let's see how this works. Pay attention, nanny. Two steps forward, One backward.
It's huge and backward.
She finds Gigi a trifle backward which is true and she educates her.
They've pounded into my head I'm backward for my age but I know what all this means.
News and current affairs
So if the Islamic world is different from the West, it is so because it is backward, not because it is Muslim.
Traditionally, a large majority of the budget has gone either on agriculture or on the development of backward regions.
Even many of the more backward parts of China have been growing at a pace that would be a marvel, were it not for the fact that other parts of the country are growing even more rapidly.
Will it choose a forward-looking, market-driven path? Or will it opt for a defensive, backward-looking, insular retreat?
All of this could lead to a standstill, which, in the current environment, would be tantamount to going backward, threatening not only European integration's future prospects, but also its past accomplishments.
But unlike backward-looking military strategy, flawed monetary policies produce inevitable damage, not merely worrisome risks.
Fatwas promulgated after Bin Baz are almost always horrendous in their intolerance and virulence, and certainly appear backward and anti-modernist.
This process means that ratings are often backward-looking, downgrades occur too late, and countries are typically rerated based on when analysts visit, rather than when fundamentals change.
Now many Russians have no idea where they are moving forward or backward or, indeed, if they are moving at all.
Turning away from a fight with its former occupier and historical rival would be a step backward in this six-decade-long quest.
Then, under arbitrary assumptions regarding growth rates, inflation, privatization receipts, and so forth, they compute what primary surpluses are necessary in every year, working backward to the present.
Our government's position is that backward induction should be ditched.
But the Islam they promoted was not backward looking; instead, it sought to shape a modernizing economic policy that took note of Muslim sensibilities.
This is utterly backward.
It is possible to see in Chavez but another Latin American populist sorcerer's apprentice, one whose political shelf life will expire whenever oil prices begin their inevitable shift backward.
The outcome was a major step backward.
As for China's backward educational system, the large number of university graduates is offset by their overall sub-standard quality.
Or will it opt for a defensive, backward-looking, insular retreat?
Turning backward and inward to the original six EU members is unlikely to meet such concerns, and augurs poorly for the liberalization of labor markets that Europe's economies need to get moving.
Until 1861, Russia was a backward country in which serfdom reigned and royals and aristocrats envied the latest French fashions.
Demographically, Russia is in a dramatic nose-dive; it remains economically and socially backward; its infrastructure is underdeveloped, as are its investments in education and vocational training.
As the EU shows, ancient enmities and battle lines can be turned into mutually beneficial cooperation if a region looks forward, to resolving its long-term needs, rather than backward, to its long-standing rivalries and conflicts.
Australia's statements have been typical - falling over backward to avoid giving offense, and too anxious to balance criticism with praise.