Negative Progress Is Backward Movement

From: Action Is Self-propelled Motion

-- 1 I'd hate to see us back where we were thirty years ago, beforecivil rights had made the strides forward that we have seen.

-- 2 When the computer ate her work, she found herself back at the beginning of the writing process again.

-- 3 We need to backtrack on this problem--we took a wrong turn.

-- 4 I keep grading papers, but I still keep falling behind.

-- 5 I keep exercising, but I keep getting farther and farther frommy target weight.