1.   Mr Rothman said that, in comparison to other European countries, Britain was very backward in granting freedom to roam.

2.   The North-East has traditionally suffered from a stereotype image depicting the region as backward in its approach to equal opportunities.

3.   And it is not even the same group that knocked the Green Bay Packers backward in Super Bowl XXXII.

4.   Absent the accident of oil, many of these states would be among the poorest and most backward in the world.

5.   But does a particle going backward in time pose the same kind of paradox?

6.   Critics see the obsession as a step backward in a country where women have made impressive headway in recent decades.

7.   Earnings since then have been uneven, with a strong second quarter and then a step backward in the current period.

8.   Even the light switches are a glimpse backward in time.

9.   Finns are also looking backward in another direction.

10.   He did not predict any kind of serious slide backward in revenue in the next several years, only a slowing in the rate of growth.