Backward used in a sentence

Backward in a sentence as an adjective

As a Brit who has spent some time in the US, the US banking system is bafflingly backward...* No chip and pin. You still sign credit card slips.

In certain ways, this "post-PC" era that Apple's brought us into with the iPad seems like a step backward.

The Muslims suffer more, because of their own backward cultural mind set than anything else.

If Apple moves to a new screen size, I think it will have to be larger for backward compatibility with old apps.

And that's in Russia, that authoritarian backward country.

Neovim maintains backward compatibility where it makes sense to do so. Neovim is NOT a rewrite, it is a thoughtful refactoring that aims to achieve one of Vim's _original_ goals: first class support for embedding.

Backward in a sentence as an adverb

I understand, you're all busy people, and I'm not paying so I shouldn't complain, and who wants to work on backward compatible cruft when you could be building the next 'awesome bar'.

But Lua the language is a bit more of a moving target; to preserve cleanliness and orthogonality they sometimes break the language in non-backward-compatible ways.

Google didn't have to spend time and money on things like getting resistant cities to allow them in or deal with onerous requirements - Google's proposition was "we'll pick whoever bends over backward the most for us".

I am not going to shrink from saying that people in backward, poorly governed countries that could never have invented the Internet have no right to **** and destroy just because someone in a free country laughs or scorns at their delusions.

If you put two of them in one aircraft, and fired both guns forward while opening up the throttle, the guns would win and you’d accelerate backward.> To put it another way: If I mounted a GAU-8 on my car, put the car in neutral, and started firing backward from a standstill, I would be breaking the interstate speed limit in less than three seconds.