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[ Those car companies ] have a clear intention to go global, in contrast to what we’re seeing in globalized countries that want to go backwards. – Elas Massri	Found on FOX News 7 years ago
Judge Gorsuch looks like he's playing dodgeball with the Senate Judiciary Committee, he has bent over backwards to avoid revealing anything, anything at all about his judicial philosophy or the legal issues that concern the American people. – Chuck Schumer	Found on CNN 7 years ago
He bent over backwards to get things done – he was a strong supporter of our ethics program. – Richard Painter	Found on FOX News 7 years ago
My strong preference has always been to legislate when I can get legislation done, in my first two years I wasn't relying on executive powers because I had big majorities in the Congress and we were able to get bills done, get bills passed. And even after we lost the majorities in Congress, I bent over backwards consistently to try to find compromise. – President Obama	Found on FOX News 7 years ago
In my first two years I wasn't relying on executive powers because I had big majorities in the Congress and we were able to get bills done, get bills passed. And even after we lost the majorities in Congress, I bent over backwards consistently to try to find compromise. – President Obama	Found on FOX News 7 years ago
She went backwards first and then she went forwards, and then she figured out how to turn, and now we have a speed bump in the middle of our living room because she just goes that fast. – Kim Moore	Found on FOX News 7 years ago
I went over that deal backwards and forwards. – Wasserman Schultz	Found on FOX News 7 years ago
She was stepping out of the way for another gentleman to kind of squeeze in, and unfortunately, Colleen kind of got tripped up on her own feet and fell backwards, fell into the canyon, that was the longest, strangest, craziest two seconds of my life. – Jessica Roman	Found on FOX News 7 years ago
We’ll make far less in interest than we’ll be paying in interest to the bondholders, i think we need to make these investments in infrastructure, but we're going about it in the wrong order. It seems backwards issuing the bonds and hoping they get an appropriation to spend them. – Michael Frerichs	Found on Reuters 7 years ago
We have made enormous progress at Air France-KLM with the group's 100,000 staff, when I arrived there were significant losses, the company was being suffocated by its debt, and we had lost our way in terms of products, we were going backwards. – De Juniac	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
The City of London is the leading international financial center in the world, it is the most cosmopolitan major business city in the world and ... a step backwards from an international position, which I think many would see this as, is unwelcome and unhelpful. – Jeffrey Evans	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
We've gone backwards over the last few months with more and more violations of the ceasefire. – British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
We had made a lot of progress in ending dictatorship-era impunity. I hope that we don't go backwards. – Carlos Munoz	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
The government was not happy with us not bidding that contract because they had felt that...they had bent over backwards to lean the fill to our advantage. We saw it as a cost shootout between us and SpaceX. – Brett Tobey	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
It's because he's fighting for the American people. And they want him to be unwavering. He's unwavering for principle for them, we should be compromising moving forward, not compromising moving backwards. So I don't want him to give up any of the fight. I want him to be unwavering for the values of the people in the base of the Republican Party that have been staying home in past elections. – Heidi Cruz	Found on CNN 8 years ago
Bring this to everyday life. ... Either we're going to progress or we'll move backwards. now I understand how powerful an image can be. I understand I'm not too small to make a change. I'm still an activist. I'm still a protester, you know. But at the same time, I'm in a different place now. – Devin Allen	Found on CNN 8 years ago
The main concern is what was a strength has become a weakness, they have very good global coverage but that does mean that two-thirds of their sales are in areas of the market that are going backwards. – Liberum Analyst Tom Gadsby	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
We should cherish last year's high-level talks and make continued efforts to seek dialogue and not take any further steps backwards. – Kim Jong Un	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
I thought he was dead, he had his head backwards and he was blue, he was all blue. – Jeannine Metivier	Found on CNN 8 years ago
They were accusing me of fighting with Bin Laden in the battle of Tora Bora; of being in charge of weapons stores; of being a terrorist recruiter, though I'd only been in Afghanistan for a few weeks, this American guy grabs me by the head, and he slams it backwards against the wall. In my mind I think I must try to save my head so I tried to bring it forwards, but as soon as I do he grabs it again and bashes it. – Shaker Aamer	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Central Africa must move forward and not backwards. Burkina Faso has set a good example. – Mahamat Kamoun	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
The schools, upon receipt of the Dear Colleague letter and looking at its requirements, weren't completely sure of exactly how to comply, and so in many cases they did more than they necessarily needed to do, they kind of in a sense over-complied. Now, they bent over backwards, and then that's when they put in place -- kind of in a hurry -- these procedures that now don't respect fair process. – Jeannie Suk	Found on CNN 8 years ago
I think the name of the operation tells you something about the dangers of looking backwards. – President Barack Obama on Thursday	Found on CNN 8 years ago
This is a man who destroyed my youth and that of others, these are people who pushed Poland backwards by many decades. – Witold Waszczykowski	Found on Reuters 8 years ago

[ Those car companies ] have a clear intention to go global, in contrast to what we’re seeing in globalized countries that want to go backwards.

– Elas Massri

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

Judge Gorsuch looks like he's playing dodgeball with the Senate Judiciary Committee, he has bent over backwards to avoid revealing anything, anything at all about his judicial philosophy or the legal issues that concern the American people.

– Chuck Schumer

Found on CNN
7 years ago

He bent over backwards to get things done – he was a strong supporter of our ethics program.

– Richard Painter

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

My strong preference has always been to legislate when I can get legislation done, in my first two years I wasn't relying on executive powers because I had big majorities in the Congress and we were able to get bills done, get bills passed. And even after we lost the majorities in Congress, I bent over backwards consistently to try to find compromise.

– President Obama

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

In my first two years I wasn't relying on executive powers because I had big majorities in the Congress and we were able to get bills done, get bills passed. And even after we lost the majorities in Congress, I bent over backwards consistently to try to find compromise.

– President Obama

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

She went backwards first and then she went forwards, and then she figured out how to turn, and now we have a speed bump in the middle of our living room because she just goes that fast.

– Kim Moore

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

I went over that deal backwards and forwards.

– Wasserman Schultz

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

She was stepping out of the way for another gentleman to kind of squeeze in, and unfortunately, Colleen kind of got tripped up on her own feet and fell backwards, fell into the canyon, that was the longest, strangest, craziest two seconds of my life.

– Jessica Roman

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

We’ll make far less in interest than we’ll be paying in interest to the bondholders, i think we need to make these investments in infrastructure, but we're going about it in the wrong order. It seems backwards issuing the bonds and hoping they get an appropriation to spend them.

– Michael Frerichs

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

We have made enormous progress at Air France-KLM with the group's 100,000 staff, when I arrived there were significant losses, the company was being suffocated by its debt, and we had lost our way in terms of products, we were going backwards.

– De Juniac

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The City of London is the leading international financial center in the world, it is the most cosmopolitan major business city in the world and ... a step backwards from an international position, which I think many would see this as, is unwelcome and unhelpful.

– Jeffrey Evans

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We've gone backwards over the last few months with more and more violations of the ceasefire.

– British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We had made a lot of progress in ending dictatorship-era impunity. I hope that we don't go backwards.

– Carlos Munoz

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The government was not happy with us not bidding that contract because they had felt that...they had bent over backwards to lean the fill to our advantage. We saw it as a cost shootout between us and SpaceX.

– Brett Tobey

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

It's because he's fighting for the American people. And they want him to be unwavering. He's unwavering for principle for them, we should be compromising moving forward, not compromising moving backwards. So I don't want him to give up any of the fight. I want him to be unwavering for the values of the people in the base of the Republican Party that have been staying home in past elections.

– Heidi Cruz

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Bring this to everyday life. ... Either we're going to progress or we'll move backwards. now I understand how powerful an image can be. I understand I'm not too small to make a change. I'm still an activist. I'm still a protester, you know. But at the same time, I'm in a different place now.

– Devin Allen

Found on CNN
8 years ago

The main concern is what was a strength has become a weakness, they have very good global coverage but that does mean that two-thirds of their sales are in areas of the market that are going backwards.

– Liberum Analyst Tom Gadsby

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We should cherish last year's high-level talks and make continued efforts to seek dialogue and not take any further steps backwards.

– Kim Jong Un

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

I thought he was dead, he had his head backwards and he was blue, he was all blue.

– Jeannine Metivier

Found on CNN
8 years ago

They were accusing me of fighting with Bin Laden in the battle of Tora Bora; of being in charge of weapons stores; of being a terrorist recruiter, though I'd only been in Afghanistan for a few weeks, this American guy grabs me by the head, and he slams it backwards against the wall. In my mind I think I must try to save my head so I tried to bring it forwards, but as soon as I do he grabs it again and bashes it.

– Shaker Aamer

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Central Africa must move forward and not backwards. Burkina Faso has set a good example.

– Mahamat Kamoun

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The schools, upon receipt of the Dear Colleague letter and looking at its requirements, weren't completely sure of exactly how to comply, and so in many cases they did more than they necessarily needed to do, they kind of in a sense over-complied. Now, they bent over backwards, and then that's when they put in place -- kind of in a hurry -- these procedures that now don't respect fair process.

– Jeannie Suk

Found on CNN
8 years ago

I think the name of the operation tells you something about the dangers of looking backwards.

– President Barack Obama on Thursday

Found on CNN
8 years ago

This is a man who destroyed my youth and that of others, these are people who pushed Poland backwards by many decades.

– Witold Waszczykowski

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

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