Last September when Apple ditched its Google Maps iPhone app and replaced it with its amazingly inept home-built Maps app, the move was so roundly denounced as a step backward and a weakening of the iPhone environment that chief executive Tim Cook had to release a public apology.
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With a deafening mechanical whine, the Instron's piston bore down on the metal leg inside the boot, mimicking the effect of a skier falling backward, a move that has ruptured thousands of knee ligaments.
After Doncaster's first goal Gareth Barry went close for the visitors with a backward header and a driven shot.
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Moreover, as I think you know, plan B represents -- or would represent a major step backward in these discussions and a major step backward for the American people.
Philip Ruddock, the immigration minister, has taken a backward step by introducing a kind of second-class citizenship for some refugees.
The frenetic, slightly scrappy opening continued and Scotland went six points clear when Ireland prop John Hayes was penalised for taking a backward step to wheel a scrum.
Some researchers suggest that parents may gain clarity by working backward from a longer-term goal.
He staggered backward and a flash of light appeared from his side.
Back on the field, fans can make prop bets on the first touchdown celebration--will the first player who rumbles into the end zone mug for the cameras with a spike, a backward flip of the ball or a he-man muscle flex?
The first is to dismiss pastoralism as a backward pursuit, an embarrassment to notions of modernisation rather than a proven response to a harsh environment.
Tim Bresnan has taken a backward step in this series although I think he is probably a better bowler than we saw at Lord's, but he did not bowl with the pace that Shahzad did and looked ordinary when the ball was not swinging.
Bug-for-bug compatibility is a problem, but breaking backward compatibility would be a much bigger problem, so even as the lowest layers of the operating system are revised and rewritten, the layers that applictions talk to (the application programming interface, or API) are carefully tested to ensure that no changes are visible to the application.
Having lived in the 1940s and 1950s, just after the defeated Japanese left a poverty stricken Singapore, I have seen the struggles during the development of my then backward country to a modern metropolis.
Peter dragged a backward Russia into the modern age by exploiting Western technology--shipbuilding in particular--and creating a formidable navy, as he reformed the economy and enlarged national boundaries.
Left-arm seamer Aamer, who has just turned 17, persuaded Bopara to spear a catch to backward point where Shoaib Malik took a good catch at head height, a couple of yards to his left.
Half the cabin flies backward (actually a safer position to be in for a crash landing).
He said a failure to agree on this matter would "represent a backward step for Northern Ireland".
He leapt up with his hands extended in double-peace signs and did a backward-shuffle dance to the stage.
This has already happened with spitting in the streets, which many Chinese now regard as a backward habit.
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"We are moving in the right direction and do not need to be taking a backward step, " she said.
Mr Birkett said this was a backward step, especially as the low emission zone was the mayor's own policy.
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Rashomon, featuring a feral bandit and stiff convention-bound couple, was criticized for portraying a backward Japan to the world.
Investing is a forward-looking exercise, however, not a backward- or even coincident-looking one.
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This was to have been be a backward looking test, looking at what firms had done in the past 10 years.
Beltre dove at an angle going backward to make a backhanded stab, then got up and threw out the leadoff hitter.
Ms de Vere Taylor said while she accepted language had to evolve, in her opinion the council's decision was a backward step.
She was heavy and walked with a backward-leaning gait, supporting her belly with one hand, seeming to balance herself as she moved.
From the 1950s, oil revenues propelled a backward agricultural society into jangling modernity, convincing most Venezuelans they were heirs to limitless wealth.
Since then, it's been a bit of a backward slide, say experts.
The duo took the score to 117-1 in the 13th over before Thomas had Croft caught at backward point with a slower ball.
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