An exact throwback to the Pithecanthropus erectus.

Great hunter, sort of a throwback to Daniel Boone.

But the element of personal dependence is a throwback to the preindustrial world.

I'm a natural born scientist, I guess, or some kind of a throwback to the 17th century, whatever.

Ahmadinejad s election in 2005 was a throwback to the populism of Khomeini s Islamic Revolution and his cult of revolutionary martyrs.

Experts might thus interpret the macroeconomic consequences as largely positive. But the element of personal dependence is a throwback to the preindustrial world.

Chinese spokesmen denounced this as a throwback to the days when America thought it could, and should, try to contain the People s Republic.

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.

Indeed, particularly where Tibet is concerned, the increasingly sophisticated and pragmatic Chinese leadership seems more like a throwback to the Mao era, with its haranguing propaganda and coercive policies.

Efficiency minded knowledge managers nowadays say that the very idea of the university as a place where the same people produce and distribute knowledge is a throwback to the Middle Ages.

Because of the financial crisis, many politicians have accepted the argument, in a virtual throwback to Adam Smith, that financial services are unproductive even counterproductive and need to be scaled back by governmental intervention.