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These are people who pushed Poland backwards by many decades. – Witold Waszczykowski	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
A man came out of a building to our left walking backwards, it was eerie and looked suspicious. I yelled at him and he turned around immediately and then started walking towards us. He looked like a young man with a beard, wearing man-jams and dark clothing. He didn't appear to be himself that day ... most likely drugged. – Army Capt. Florent Groberg	Found on CNN 8 years ago
The lack of effective mothering and fathering among more than half of our school children can, in fact, be traced backwards. – Ronald Thwaites	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
These regulations have had an impact on a key economic sector and we cannot afford it, we are going backwards at time when our country solely needs economic growth. – David Frost	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
I think Roy Moore is virulently anti-gay, the majority bent over backwards and went through legal gymnastics to not recognize the The Georgia adoption decree where this couple agreed the children would be raised jointly and parent them together. – Scott McCoy	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Who is Ronald Reagan ? you do need to remind people. Americans, understandably, spend very little time looking backwards. – Grover Norquist	Found on CNN 8 years ago
I tried to make very clear that whatever the rationale ... the government and the party really needs to bend over backwards to demonstrate that the bad old days are in fact over and they will not avail themselves of the tools of oppression that marred Burma for so many decades. – Daniel Russel	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
I think there'll be a variety of (major) winners from here, i should think now that (Day's) won one of the majors, he might go backwards a bit for a while. – Australian Thomson	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
To give up open borders would be a gigantic step backwards in European history, with Greece, there is the risk of losing money. But now Europe is at risk of losing its decency. – German Vice Chancellor Sigmar Gabriel	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
One of the very important things now is for us to be able to stay where we are on the TPP negotiations, not to slide backwards, but to finish that job in which Vietnam is very much an important contributor to. – State John Kerry	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
They have it backwards. Engagement is not a gift to the Castros, it's a threat to the Castros. – Hillary Clinton	Found on CNN 8 years ago
It's not only a step backwards, it's also a devastating missed opportunity for the future. – Senator Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Everything's settled down at least for one day. We're in this 'two steps forward, one step backwards'. Today, I guess, we're going two steps forward. – John Kinsey	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
It appears the tribunal panel is bending over backwards to accommodate China's interests and appear even-handed to both the Philippines and China. – Ian Storey	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
I knew right away he was going to land in the boat, because of the way he was facing -- knocked me backwards and then landed kind of on my feet and ankles, it was pretty much chaos at that point -- my wife had fallen down, she was screaming, the dolphin was making screaming noises, my daughter was totally freaking out and screaming. – Chrissie Frickman	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
Even after two Supreme Court verdicts and a presidential election, they are still fighting to take us backwards, i think we can sum up the message from the Court and the American people: 'Move on.'. – President Bill Clinton	Found on CNN 8 years ago
This is an educational and behavioral issue we in America, for the common individual, have it backwards. Baby boomers should be OK when they have savings, pay cash for purchases, and rarely use credit. Unfortunately that’s not the case. We live in a time where we purchase many things we can’t afford, with money we don’t have, for items we don’t need. Do this a lot and you’re doomed. – Jim Chilton	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
When you’re sitting, set an alarm or some indication every 15 to 20 minutes to get up and change your position, if you’re standing, you need to be dynamic. Shift your weight side to side, put one foot slightly in front of the other, and move your weight backwards and forwards just so you’re moving a little bit. – Shannon Skelton	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
For him, she bends over backwards. It is origami of the heart. (Pour lui, elle se plie en quatre. - C'est l'origami du cœur) – Charles de LEUSSE	added by anonymous 9 years ago
I think we're turning backwards, down that road, everyone thinks at first that it's nothing, but more and more things accumulate, and then it's repression. I worry about what happens to women and children in this situation. We have to talk about it, maybe that will put a brake on things. – Katsumoto Saotome	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
The Dow Jones is such a backwards-looking list, I cringed when Intel (INTC.O: Quote, Profile, Research, Stock Buzz) and Microsoft (MSFT.O: Quote, Profile, Research, Stock Buzz) were added, i'm cringing today. Let's hope Apple can defy the forces of history. – Kevin Landis	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
The Dow Jones is such a backwards-looking list, I cringed when Intel and Microsoft were added, i'm cringing today. Let's hope Apple can defy the forces of history. – Kevin Landis	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
The world climate has changed completely, but for the ones who are brave, the opportunities are enormous because the government is bending over backwards to help investors. – Clive Dawson	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
We have to be clear - the salafists are a step backwards for society, this is not something that we can resolve in two years. It is much more complex than that. – Abderrahmane Sissako	Found on Reuters 9 years ago

These are people who pushed Poland backwards by many decades.

– Witold Waszczykowski

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

A man came out of a building to our left walking backwards, it was eerie and looked suspicious. I yelled at him and he turned around immediately and then started walking towards us. He looked like a young man with a beard, wearing man-jams and dark clothing. He didn't appear to be himself that day ... most likely drugged.

– Army Capt. Florent Groberg

Found on CNN
8 years ago

The lack of effective mothering and fathering among more than half of our school children can, in fact, be traced backwards.

– Ronald Thwaites

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

These regulations have had an impact on a key economic sector and we cannot afford it, we are going backwards at time when our country solely needs economic growth.

– David Frost

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

I think Roy Moore is virulently anti-gay, the majority bent over backwards and went through legal gymnastics to not recognize the The Georgia adoption decree where this couple agreed the children would be raised jointly and parent them together.

– Scott McCoy

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Who is Ronald Reagan ? you do need to remind people. Americans, understandably, spend very little time looking backwards.

– Grover Norquist

Found on CNN
8 years ago

I tried to make very clear that whatever the rationale ... the government and the party really needs to bend over backwards to demonstrate that the bad old days are in fact over and they will not avail themselves of the tools of oppression that marred Burma for so many decades.

– Daniel Russel

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

I think there'll be a variety of (major) winners from here, i should think now that (Day's) won one of the majors, he might go backwards a bit for a while.

– Australian Thomson

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

To give up open borders would be a gigantic step backwards in European history, with Greece, there is the risk of losing money. But now Europe is at risk of losing its decency.

– German Vice Chancellor Sigmar Gabriel

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

One of the very important things now is for us to be able to stay where we are on the TPP negotiations, not to slide backwards, but to finish that job in which Vietnam is very much an important contributor to.

– State John Kerry

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

They have it backwards. Engagement is not a gift to the Castros, it's a threat to the Castros.

– Hillary Clinton

Found on CNN
8 years ago

It's not only a step backwards, it's also a devastating missed opportunity for the future.

– Senator Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Everything's settled down at least for one day. We're in this 'two steps forward, one step backwards'. Today, I guess, we're going two steps forward.

– John Kinsey

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

It appears the tribunal panel is bending over backwards to accommodate China's interests and appear even-handed to both the Philippines and China.

– Ian Storey

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

I knew right away he was going to land in the boat, because of the way he was facing -- knocked me backwards and then landed kind of on my feet and ankles, it was pretty much chaos at that point -- my wife had fallen down, she was screaming, the dolphin was making screaming noises, my daughter was totally freaking out and screaming.

– Chrissie Frickman

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

Even after two Supreme Court verdicts and a presidential election, they are still fighting to take us backwards, i think we can sum up the message from the Court and the American people: 'Move on.'.

– President Bill Clinton

Found on CNN
8 years ago

This is an educational and behavioral issue we in America, for the common individual, have it backwards. Baby boomers should be OK when they have savings, pay cash for purchases, and rarely use credit. Unfortunately that’s not the case. We live in a time where we purchase many things we can’t afford, with money we don’t have, for items we don’t need. Do this a lot and you’re doomed.

– Jim Chilton

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

When you’re sitting, set an alarm or some indication every 15 to 20 minutes to get up and change your position, if you’re standing, you need to be dynamic. Shift your weight side to side, put one foot slightly in front of the other, and move your weight backwards and forwards just so you’re moving a little bit.

– Shannon Skelton

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

For him, she bends over backwards. It is origami of the heart. (Pour lui, elle se plie en quatre. - C'est l'origami du cœur)

– Charles de LEUSSE

added by anonymous
9 years ago

I think we're turning backwards, down that road, everyone thinks at first that it's nothing, but more and more things accumulate, and then it's repression. I worry about what happens to women and children in this situation. We have to talk about it, maybe that will put a brake on things.

– Katsumoto Saotome

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

The Dow Jones is such a backwards-looking list, I cringed when Intel (INTC.O: Quote, Profile, Research, Stock Buzz) and Microsoft (MSFT.O: Quote, Profile, Research, Stock Buzz) were added, i'm cringing today. Let's hope Apple can defy the forces of history.

– Kevin Landis

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

The Dow Jones is such a backwards-looking list, I cringed when Intel and Microsoft were added, i'm cringing today. Let's hope Apple can defy the forces of history.

– Kevin Landis

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

The world climate has changed completely, but for the ones who are brave, the opportunities are enormous because the government is bending over backwards to help investors.

– Clive Dawson

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

We have to be clear - the salafists are a step backwards for society, this is not something that we can resolve in two years. It is much more complex than that.

– Abderrahmane Sissako

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

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