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How can you have a star sign if you don't know the sign you were born in because the months reduce every year in 29 and 30 day months? And every 30 years your sign goes to the earlier sign aswell. Unless you look at the stars and can calculate backwards to the date of birth. Or you could just ask a psychic? Unless you can hear spirit yourself? Also the orbit and earth's tilting has been changing since time began so that would need to be figured in; because it depends on which sign it spins to face first as to the order of birth date. – Heather Lydia Thornhill	added by Gina.taylor 2 months ago
It’s backwards — when it’s about punishing campesinos they move fast. – David Velazco	Found on New York Times 10 months ago
Chicago city leaders bent over backwards to lure Walmart to the city, what they should have been doing was supporting the development of local businesses with a real commitment to the city and its residents. – Stacy Mitchell	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Hopefully grace, dignity, poise, smarts, calculation – because in the end we’re all wanting to support the nominee. donald Trump’s message is getting a little stale, a little old, looking backwards more than forwards. – David Oman	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Donald Trump’s message is getting a little stale, a little old, looking backwards more than forwards, we feel like a new generation of leadership is good for the party. And if that’s good for the party, it could be good for the country. – David Oman	Found on CNN 1 year ago
You need to think about what needs to live in the mudroom — for each person in your household, what do they actually need to get in and out of the door in the morning, or at the end of the day, that’s going to make the space function for you all? and then you can work backwards and figure out, ‘Okay, how do I want to contain this in the smartest way?’. – Joanna Teplin	Found on CNN 1 year ago
What you don’t know is that the moment the curtain opened and it was time to perform, our turntable started spinning in reverse, backwards. Freaking all of us out on live television, and there was nothing we could do to stop it. In real time, we had to troubleshoot and try to do a complete piece in reverse. Talk about professionalism. – Brandon Mathis	Found on CNN 1 year ago
I can’t say thank you enough, all of us who don’t want this country to go backwards, banning books in a country all about diversity, every parent, celebrity, and person who is an advocate of literacy and truth and real American history needs to speak out so our voices remain louder than the opposition. – Derrick Barnes	Found on CNN 1 year ago
We’re moving backwards and it’s concerning to me, history has taught us what happens when political speech on social media companies is allowed to fester unchecked. – Anika Collier Navaroli	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Are we as a party looking forward or backwards? And I want to be a part of the Republican Party that is looking forward. – Matt Dolan	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
MAGA forces are determined to take this country backwards to an America where there is no right to choose, no right to privacy, no right to contraception, no right to marry who you love. – President Biden	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
By bending to the callous whims of Republican governors in Texas, Arizona and Florida as this country gears up for midterm elections, the Biden Administration has taken multiple steps backwards in time to the cruel immigration policies of Donald Trump. – Murad Awawdeh	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
The extreme MAGA Republicans in Congress have chosen to go backwards, full of anger, violence, hate and division. But together, we can and we must choose a different path forward. – Joe Biden	Found on CNN 1 year ago
I realized there's no road backwards. Ukraine has to have its own language. Everything I do is now translated to or written in Ukrainian. – Elena Andreychykova	Found on CNN 1 year ago
You go into it [and] there’s only two ways out, backwards or forwards, once you’re in the middle, you’re far away from [the exits]. It’s just spooky. – Bob Barnes	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
Gas and food prices continue to be heavily impacted by the war in Ukraine. And there are a few important points to keep in mind when White House officials on Tuesday get this backwards-looking data. First, June CPI data is already out of date because energy prices have come down substantially this month and are expected to fall further. – Karine Jean-Pierre	Found on CNN 1 year ago
I've got to tell John Kirby, I think it's a big step backwards. – Boris Johnson	Found on CNN 1 year ago
I've got to tell you, I think it's a big step backwards, i've always believed in a woman's right to choose and I stick to that view, and that's why the UK has the laws that it does. – Boris Johnson	Found on CNN 1 year ago
We are going backwards in time, we are literally going backwards in time. It makes no sense how anyone thinks it’s their right to tell a woman what to do with her body. I just don’t get it. – Dave Portnoy	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
MAGA Republicans are fixated on controlling people’s lives, forcing their backwards ideology onto everyone and throwing folks in jail who do n’t agree with them, this organizing campaign will give outraged voters a way to help elect the pro-choice Democrats who are the last line of defense against Republicans' plan to ban abortion nationwide. – Tim Persico	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
It's not fair to the people of Iowa. It's not fair to the four early states. And if we want to have a process, that's fine, but let's do it in sunlight, not in darkness, by putting that on paper the way it was done, you set parameters. ... We're going to have a fulsome discussion, but I believe that that process came about backwards. – Scott Brennan	Found on CNN 2 years ago
If we’re a just and fair nation, there’s got to be a remedy, these numbers should not be going backwards. – Marc Morial	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
It should have happened a long time ago, we should have been arming the Ukrainians for the last year, we weren't. We should have been doing much more on domestic production of oil, instead we're going backwards, and we gave Putin the card to hold us hostage. – Chris Christie	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Ukraine has experienced so much religious freedom over the last 30 years, and that's the threat [right now]. I have quite a few relationships with evangelical leaders, pastors and nonprofits, and the threat for them is about going backwards — going backwards 30 years, 40 years, and not being able to express their faith. – Vladimir Putin	Found on FOX News 2 years ago

How can you have a star sign if you don't know the sign you were born in because the months reduce every year in 29 and 30 day months? And every 30 years your sign goes to the earlier sign aswell. Unless you look at the stars and can calculate backwards to the date of birth. Or you could just ask a psychic? Unless you can hear spirit yourself? Also the orbit and earth's tilting has been changing since time began so that would need to be figured in; because it depends on which sign it spins to face first as to the order of birth date.

– Heather Lydia Thornhill

added by Gina.taylor
2 months ago

It’s backwards — when it’s about punishing campesinos they move fast.

– David Velazco

Found on New York Times
10 months ago

Chicago city leaders bent over backwards to lure Walmart to the city, what they should have been doing was supporting the development of local businesses with a real commitment to the city and its residents.

– Stacy Mitchell

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Hopefully grace, dignity, poise, smarts, calculation – because in the end we’re all wanting to support the nominee. donald Trump’s message is getting a little stale, a little old, looking backwards more than forwards.

– David Oman

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Donald Trump’s message is getting a little stale, a little old, looking backwards more than forwards, we feel like a new generation of leadership is good for the party. And if that’s good for the party, it could be good for the country.

– David Oman

Found on CNN
1 year ago

You need to think about what needs to live in the mudroom — for each person in your household, what do they actually need to get in and out of the door in the morning, or at the end of the day, that’s going to make the space function for you all? and then you can work backwards and figure out, ‘Okay, how do I want to contain this in the smartest way?’.

– Joanna Teplin

Found on CNN
1 year ago

What you don’t know is that the moment the curtain opened and it was time to perform, our turntable started spinning in reverse, backwards. Freaking all of us out on live television, and there was nothing we could do to stop it. In real time, we had to troubleshoot and try to do a complete piece in reverse. Talk about professionalism.

– Brandon Mathis

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I can’t say thank you enough, all of us who don’t want this country to go backwards, banning books in a country all about diversity, every parent, celebrity, and person who is an advocate of literacy and truth and real American history needs to speak out so our voices remain louder than the opposition.

– Derrick Barnes

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We’re moving backwards and it’s concerning to me, history has taught us what happens when political speech on social media companies is allowed to fester unchecked.

– Anika Collier Navaroli

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Are we as a party looking forward or backwards? And I want to be a part of the Republican Party that is looking forward.

– Matt Dolan

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

MAGA forces are determined to take this country backwards to an America where there is no right to choose, no right to privacy, no right to contraception, no right to marry who you love.

– President Biden

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

By bending to the callous whims of Republican governors in Texas, Arizona and Florida as this country gears up for midterm elections, the Biden Administration has taken multiple steps backwards in time to the cruel immigration policies of Donald Trump.

– Murad Awawdeh

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

The extreme MAGA Republicans in Congress have chosen to go backwards, full of anger, violence, hate and division. But together, we can and we must choose a different path forward.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I realized there's no road backwards. Ukraine has to have its own language. Everything I do is now translated to or written in Ukrainian.

– Elena Andreychykova

Found on CNN
1 year ago

You go into it [and] there’s only two ways out, backwards or forwards, once you’re in the middle, you’re far away from [the exits]. It’s just spooky.

– Bob Barnes

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Gas and food prices continue to be heavily impacted by the war in Ukraine. And there are a few important points to keep in mind when White House officials on Tuesday get this backwards-looking data. First, June CPI data is already out of date because energy prices have come down substantially this month and are expected to fall further.

– Karine Jean-Pierre

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I've got to tell John Kirby, I think it's a big step backwards.

– Boris Johnson

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I've got to tell you, I think it's a big step backwards, i've always believed in a woman's right to choose and I stick to that view, and that's why the UK has the laws that it does.

– Boris Johnson

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We are going backwards in time, we are literally going backwards in time. It makes no sense how anyone thinks it’s their right to tell a woman what to do with her body. I just don’t get it.

– Dave Portnoy

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

MAGA Republicans are fixated on controlling people’s lives, forcing their backwards ideology onto everyone and throwing folks in jail who do n’t agree with them, this organizing campaign will give outraged voters a way to help elect the pro-choice Democrats who are the last line of defense against Republicans' plan to ban abortion nationwide.

– Tim Persico

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

It's not fair to the people of Iowa. It's not fair to the four early states. And if we want to have a process, that's fine, but let's do it in sunlight, not in darkness, by putting that on paper the way it was done, you set parameters. ... We're going to have a fulsome discussion, but I believe that that process came about backwards.

– Scott Brennan

Found on CNN
2 years ago

If we’re a just and fair nation, there’s got to be a remedy, these numbers should not be going backwards.

– Marc Morial

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

It should have happened a long time ago, we should have been arming the Ukrainians for the last year, we weren't. We should have been doing much more on domestic production of oil, instead we're going backwards, and we gave Putin the card to hold us hostage.

– Chris Christie

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Ukraine has experienced so much religious freedom over the last 30 years, and that's the threat [right now]. I have quite a few relationships with evangelical leaders, pastors and nonprofits, and the threat for them is about going backwards — going backwards 30 years, 40 years, and not being able to express their faith.

– Vladimir Putin

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

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