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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But this is backward-looking stuff from another era.
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Even if Maastricht is ratified intact, the past four months have made it seem backward-looking , or even irrelevant.
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In 1890 all foreign ministries had been, to varying extents, tradition-bound and backward-looking .
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Some of its politicians were backward-looking in that their major objectives were to remedy inter-war problems.
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The later Victorian undertakers were arguably the most backward-looking tradesmen of their day.
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The titles of many of the talks seem curiously backward-looking , particularly compared with the straight forward approach of the Berlin programme.
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The whole scene represented by these extensive remains is determinedly backward-looking and insular.
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This gives intentional explanations a forward-looking quality which contrasts with the backward-looking quality of empirical explanations.