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Example sentences for: backward-looking

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The paper said, "The real fear of the protestors is not that the trade talks will fail but that they will succeed, for protectionism is a powerful force behind which shelter not only state monopolies, inefficient industries and cossetted farmers but backward-looking and xenophobic ideologies."
Jackson's ruling was, of necessity, backward-looking, since he had to decide what had happened.