11.   He wears his shorts backward in practice.

12.   I hate swapping out batteries, so this strikes me as a step backward in design.

13.   In the film, the story works its way backward in time.

14.   In the opinion of some owners, the new proposal made by the players last week in a secret meeting was a step backward in labor negotiations.

15.   It represents a discouraging step backward in the historic national struggle to provide economic opportunities for women equal to those available to men.

16.   Ranford saved the shot but immediately fell backward in pain beside the net.

17.   Still, fresh-faced recruits used to powerful PCs in their homes and high schools find that stepping aboard a Navy ship means stepping backward in time.

18.   The agency also remains backward in its use of technology to look at data.

19.   The Trades Union Congress used to be so backward in its political-economic outlook that it was famously caricatured by the cartoonist David Low as a cart horse.

20.   This sudden lurch to the right and backward in time is accompanied by flawed logic and misreading of evidence.