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He was a throwback to the Victorian era when it was thought moral decay had to be combated by a regime of fitness for the mind and body.

He's not a populist at all. He's sort of a typical throwback to the Japanese prime minister of yore, the faceless grey suits.

TAKING your hat off at the door may seem like a throwback to a more genteel age.

The use of illegals, of the type rounded up in the United States, is an old KGB throwback that traces to the Stalin era.

This response, I now think, was a throwback to an earlier age of the hunter-gatherer.

The device was a throwback to the early days of AOL and its walled garden alternative to the internet, he lamented.

Bernanke is a throwback to a more traditional Fed chairman : smart , dull and straightforward . He has had no crisis to deal with .

My personal favorite are burpees, which I still like to call squat thrusts, a throwback to my elementary school gym class days.

I accepted Hogwarts as a throwback British boarding school , the kind that some of us escaped from, screaming, 40 years ago .

Eg. Be a sort of throwback to the victorian age, she will not go against her old dad's wish.

FARC's kidnap and murder of a provincial governor in late December was a grisly throwback to the bad old days of a decade ago.

With access to any foreign programme they want online, many have reacted with yawns and sarcastic asides to SARFT's throwback edict.

In a way, all this is a throwback to the era of "time-sharing" on mainframe computers.

But many in Latin America saw Mr Zelaya's arrest in his pyjamas as an unacceptable throwback to the region's dark past.

Being a sort of throwback to the Victorian age, she won't go against her old dad's wishes.

The twelfth at Common Ground outside of Denver is a throwback to a simpler, less cluttered style of architecture.

It's a throwback to the first weapons our remote ancestors used on the African savannah : Hit the sucker with a rock .

Yet another contender, "The Princess and the Frog, " from Walt Disney Pictures, is a hand-drawn throwback to the heyday of the genre.

Mr Ozawa's detractors accuse him of being a throwback to the bad old days of "money-power" politics.

They tend to be a lethal combination of being extremely busy and having bad habits, a throwback from their student days.

Meanwhile, others say the campaign is a cruel throwback to a dark period in Chinese history.

Throwback - Throws the last fish you caught, back into the ocean .

Critics are alarmed by what they see as a blatant throwback to Soviet methods of intellectual control.

Meanwhile, inflation is reviving throwback elements of state economic planning.

His sentiments were a throwback to the old communist days.

Walsh's manner was remote, calm and professional, his walrus mustache a throwback to ghosts of law enforcers past.

The males of their species often have prominent head-fins, a throwback to their evolutionary roots found in the oceans of Kamino.

For the first time ever, all 193 members of the United Nations have signed the traditional Olympic truce, a throwback to the ancient games.

The negative gradient is a throwback to the earlier days of chromatography when columns were less stable than they are today.

In another throwback, plans are afoot to create a "bad bank" for Dexia's worst assets.

In Lushan, the throwback one-movie theater has become its own tourist attraction.

It's not that I don't like action -- or Stallone -- but this geriatric throwback to the 1980s was lazy and lunkheaded.

Indeed, it is the throwback quality that makes him valuable to Manchester United.

these throwback readers were out there in droves long before the movie campaign opened.

Roy. He has an old-man's game, a throwback game, according to Bryant, and the Lakers star.

But it's also a throwback to earlier, less uptight times.

This might seem an unthinkable throwback.

"It's a throwback in a way to old school thrillers, " said Depp.

Contrast under the brim for a throwback look.

The FARC are in some ways a throwback to a past era in Latin America.

She is a throwback to an era when people would not sell out.

To some, these arguments might sound self-serving, if not a throwback to old Reagan-era free-market views.

This is a throwback to pre-crisis 2007, with American deficit-financed consumption set against Chinese surplus-creating exports.

I didn't know what the rules were, I'm a natural born scientist, I guess, or some kind of a throwback to the 17th century, whatever.

Wallace, who scored 11 points, had a throwback game, circa 2000 Trailblazer or 2004 Piston.

It's a throwback, and it does not protect women.

Looked at one way, a huge organisation such as China Mobile is a throwback to an earlier era;