Examples of 'backwards step' in a sentence

Meaning of "backwards step"

backwards step: a regressive or negative movement or action, often leading to setbacks or reversals in progress

How to use "backwards step" in a sentence

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You are a backwards step in the evolution of mankind.
Every defeat home or away is a backwards step.
Backwards step on looking into the future.
Such an approach would constitute a dangerous backwards step.
It is a backwards step completely contrary to the whole movement of history.
I think we can all agree that was a backwards step.
A backwards step on saving energy.
Bateman never takes a backwards step.
Then Forza 6 took the backwards step by reverting to top-three finishes as a requirement for progression.
It seems like unbelievably stupid and backwards step.
Will this bending-over backwards step be accepted by those who observe the Muslim religion?
There was a rule that no band could take a backwards step.
Really more of a backwards step.
Generally speaking, it is a fact that democracy is today taking a backwards step.
But experimenting with drug cocktails is a backwards step I am not prepared to take.

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Any such move would, of course, be considered to be a significant backwards step.
The seventh amendment is a backwards step - we all know that.
Instead of making proteins and nucleic acids all we make is smog, a backwards step.
In my opinion, I think this is a backwards step for Instagram.
Diesel in a nuclear age, some say that the propulsion system is backwards step.
In pure football terms, Neymar has clearly taken a backwards step by leaving Barca for PSG.
I brought in my bongos last week . I think we can all agree that was a backwards step.
And anyway, this spec - I mean, it 's a backwards step for us.
A move to Manchester United, conversely, would represent a backwards step.
Now, it may seem like we made a backwards step.
Stepping away from the EU would be backwards step.
In railways, public ownership took a backwards step.
Why? Because they cannot take a backwards step.
Since then, Williams hasn't taken a backwards step.
What I asked of you, the backwards step.
I was wrong . What I asked of you, the backwards step.
That 's unlike you, Catriona, taking a backwards step.

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