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backward

Chess (of a pawn) behind neighbouring pawns and unable to be supported by them
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What does it mean when you dream about moving backward?

A dream of moving backward may mean the dreamer feels he or she is losing ground in some endeavor. Retracing one’s steps may indicate that information from the past may be needed to bring about an understanding of a current situation, especially one that has gone wrong.

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And as most probably she liked Tom as well as he liked her, so when she perceived his backwardness she herself grew proportionably forward; and when she saw he had entirely deserted the house, she found means of throwing herself in his way, and behaved in such a manner that the youth must have had very much or very little of the heroe if her endeavours had proved unsuccessful.
If you think I have done wrong in coming thus far to quit you again, Captain, I will own the reason of the act, without shame or backwardness. Though I have seen so much of the wilderness, it is not to be gainsayed, that my feelings, as well as my skin, are white.
"Nay, please your worship," answered the man, in much perplexity, but with a backwardness that strikingly indicated the hard and severe character of Colonel Pyncheon's domestic rule; "my master's orders were exceeding strict; and, as your worship knows, he permits of no discretion in the obedience of those who owe him service.
I told him the dreadful exigence I was in; that my love to him, and his offering to have me forget that affection and remove it to another, had thrown me down; and that I had a thousand times wished I might die rather than recover, and to have the same circumstances to struggle with as I had before, and that his backwardness to life had been the great reason of the slowness of my recovering.
QUETTA -- General Secretary of Balochistan Awami Party and Senator Manzoor Kakar has said that nationalist and religious parties are to be blamed for the backwardness of the province as these parties made public suffer by creating obstacles to stop development in Balochistan.
A Montserrado County Electoral District #15 representative candidate, Amos NyanwlehTubor, distances himself from recent media reports that alleged that he (Tubor) blames the late Representative Adolph Lawrence for backwardness and inadequate representation of the district under his stewardship.
'Foreign investors are reluctant to invest in Pakistan due to economic uncertainty, infrastructural backwardness and other bureaucratic hurdles'
Speaking at public meetings in Kalat and Kot Khaliqabad, he criticised the opposition parties and said previous rulers were responsible for backwardness in the province.
In a statement, the Deputy Speaker thanked the Prime Minister for inaugurating development projects in Balochistan and said the completion of these projects would end backwardness and start a new phase of progress and prosperity in the province.
"We have made it part of our manifesto because it was an old issue and thinking of the people evolved on it and the reasons were backwardness in South Punjab." As compared to other smaller provinces, Punjab was considered a prosperous province.
ISLAMABAD -- Prime Minister Imran Khan has said that Balochistan is gifted with natural resources, but lack of good governance and mismanagement on the part of previous governments resulted in its backwardness.
Prime Minister Imran Khan Wednesday said the Balochistan province was gifted with natural resources, but lack of good governance and mismanagement on the part of previous governments, resulted in its backwardness.
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