Kenworthy was able to denounce the incident as a "step backward" that even violated the Gillem Board policy by allocating "Negro spaces" in overhead units.
In order to get ahead I can even make up my mind to take a step backward.
In Which Pinocchio Discovers that Sometimes When You Want to Advance You Have to Take a Step Backward 78 VI.
Besides, gentlemen," proceeded Gerlach, "you will please observe that the doctrine of state supremacy is a step backward of nearly two thousand years.
Meanwhile I want you to maintain a strict neutrality--not a step backward nor a step in advance.
Rather a step backward, I should think, of eighteen hundred years.
If the foot rests on the ground when the extremity is not flexed, it is almost impossible for the subject to step backward.
The condition is generally more noticeable when the subject is made to step backward.
Swinging-leg lameness is often present and the impediment is more accentuated when the animal is caused to step backward.
And you placed astronomy next, and then you made a step backward?
Then take a step backward, for we are out of order, and insert the third dimension which is of solids, after the second which is of planes, and then you may proceed to solids in motion.
Then take a step backward, for we have gone wrong in the order of the sciences.
She gave a step backward, and raised her frightened eyes to his.
He took a step backward, and his eyes made an ugly shift.
Without passion, without appeals to war, without agitation, without intemperate zeal, they never cease to advance, and are scarcely ever compelled to take a step backward.
Then making a step backward, he swung open a door which revealed a formidable array of muskets, pistols and swords which would be available if the contingency he referred to arose.
At her laughter, he took a step backward, as if she had struck him, and his tan face reddened.
He took a step backward, almost as if he had been struck a physical blow, and he gripped his sword hilt for reassurance.
It hit his chest with a thump, and he took a step backward.
He vaulted to his feet and thought of taking her in his arms, but she freed her hands with a quick, unexpected motion and took a step backward.
The old gentleman commissioned Hans, presumably without uttering a word, to step backward to the left.
What was necessary to cause the horse to step backward and then jump forward was to step backward oneself, or make a slight movement of the hand in that direction.
Once, when intending to ask the horse to step backward to the right, I inadvertently said "Step backward to the left!
Tiring of this, the German took a step backward, and, raising his sword, grasped it by the point and hurled it at Hal.
No," said Chester, taking a step backward; "we are not spies.
The Frenchman took a step backward at the menace in the lad's tone; but the other French officers now gathered about, and these reënforcements apparently lent him courage.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "step backward" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
