Yet Oxford could hardly be called backward-looking.    From Wordnik.com.  [Remarks By President At Oxford University] Reference

Too late for backward-looking, or second guessing, now.    From Wordnik.com.  [Was The Media Unfair To Hillary? Here's Our Rundown.] Reference

Current Tory health plans are backward-looking and reactionary.    From Wordnik.com.  [Current Tory health plans are backward-looking and reactionary] Reference

It is backward-looking, adjusting tariffs based on 'old' data.    From Wordnik.com.  [1. Determine tariffs] Reference

Some of it spring from this president's backward-looking policies.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jul 17, 2008] Reference

Some consider technical analysis old-fashioned and backward-looking.    From Wordnik.com.  [Technical Support: Stocks Likely to Extend Rally] Reference

Free traders like to say labor unions are backward-looking protectionists.    From Wordnik.com.  [James P. Hoffa: Just What We Don't Need - Another Free Trade Agreement] Reference

The Afghan elections might seem a backward-looking, hopeless kind of issue.    From Wordnik.com.  [Afghanistan's Elections: How Dr. House Can help] Reference

Their backward-looking obscurantism aside, both are revolutionary movements.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sohrab Ahmari: Iran and the Radical Sunnis] Reference

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It's a backward-looking pick, not a forward - looking pick.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript - Reliable Sources: Media Microscope Scrutinizes Cheney; Will the Republican Convention Provide any Real News? - July 29, 2000] Reference

He must have been the most backward-looking leader in the history of the world.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference

But they are essentially backward-looking arguments for forward-needed leadership.    From Wordnik.com.  [Adam Hanft: What We'll Miss] Reference

He starts off agreeing with Blair – that the Tories were backward-looking losers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gordon Brown, Charlie Whelan and Me] Reference

And the president's focus and efforts will be forward-looking, not backward-looking.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript - Special Event: Bush Transition Holds Regular News Briefing - January 19, 2001] Reference

Again, that's the backward-looking, outdated, discredited way of looking at ourselves.    From Wordnik.com.  [Raymond Leon Roker: My View of The Atlantic's "The End of White America?"] Reference

So, I just can't understand this sort of backward-looking view that Alex has presented.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jan 14, 2004] Reference

Then two things happen: those backward-looking plans are scaled down or poorly executed.    From Wordnik.com.  [John McQuaid: Backing Away, Bit by Bit, from New Orleans] Reference

Here's an alarmingly good fit for any backward-looking perspective that is fueled by fear.    From Wordnik.com.  [Paula Gordon: Antidotes for Venom] Reference

Obama has said repeatedly, maybe too much so, that he doesn't want to be backward-looking.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Halo Holds] Reference

In the article, Cornwell focuses on the most "backward-looking" of the pope's initiatives.    From Wordnik.com.  [This distorted view of Catholicism obscures its true nature] Reference

We are a very backward-looking society, and as such, we are continually blindsided by the future.    From Wordnik.com.  [Brett Greene: World's Most Challenging Competition Shakes Earth to It's Core] Reference

But too much rides on the next five months to get caught up in a divisive backward-looking battle.    From Wordnik.com.  [Was The Media Unfair To Hillary? Here's Our Rundown.] Reference

Just a backward-looking, baggage-filled debate about whether to raises taxes on wealthy Americans.    From Wordnik.com.  [How To Build A Better Tax Cut] Reference

Oppression is not the wave of the future; it is the desperate tactic of a few backward-looking men.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Feb 21, 2005] Reference

No one could possibly gain from that except for the most rigid, backward-looking elements in China itself.    From Wordnik.com.  [Remarks By The President In Foreign Policy Speech] Reference

As an economist, however, Krugman seems to take a backward-looking and deterministic view of these people.    From Wordnik.com.  [In An Interview With TPM, Krugman Ramps Up Case Against Obama] Reference

This isn't the doctrinaire movement of Margaret Thatcher or the backward-looking party of its older supporters.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Eton Problem] Reference

The iPod, with its backward-looking feature set and dramatically inflated price, has only its looks going for it.    From Wordnik.com.  [MacCommunist: Smash the iPod] Reference

Now, listen, Lou, I think that, as a general proposition, both of these campaigns have been very backward-looking.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Sep 15, 2004] Reference

In conclusion, I would suggest adopting a simple 5-point plan which is forward-looking rather than backward-looking.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shafqat Khan: A Forward Looking 5-Point Plan to End the Economic Crisis] Reference

This is just one more example of John McCain's backward-looking, outdated approach to America's most pressing problems.    From Wordnik.com.  [A. Siegel: Drill ... Lower Gas Prices ... Build SUVs: Lies to an Ugly Future] Reference

But take a look at the current New York scene and you'll find some compelling challenges to this backward-looking paradigm.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hank Shteamer: I Want My Mummy: Fighting Nostalgia on the New York Jazz Scene] Reference

We have too much to do at home and abroad, too much on our plate, to begin such a backward-looking, dangerous precedent now.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lanny Davis: Truth and Reconciliation -- or Retribution and Revenge?] Reference

In short, anyone who says that the glory days are over (be it Must See TV or Slippery When Wet) is backward-looking and delusional.    From Wordnik.com.  [30 Rock's Hard Rocker] Reference