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The so-called Powell Doctrine is one useful, backward-looking tool at our disposal.

The Senate recently rejected a backward-looking resolution to discredit the EPA from Alaska Republican Lisa Murkowski.

No one is even trying to disguise the backward-looking mandate.

Look, too, what a long way on in the verse that sin of backward-looking has brought you.

They save that bunkum for pussy-footing, peace-loving, backward-looking, dollar-worshiping Americans.

"Study is better than sacrifice," for example, must have been a very surprising proverb to the backward-looking Jew.

That which in the forward-looking prophecy is the historical fulfilment, is in the backward-looking the scientific investigation.

A thin pale grudging strip of moon lit it up: just the moon by which to see ruins—a moon for backward looking and regrets.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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