Some now suspect that royalists including members of the king's family are tempted to turn the clock back.
"I want to turn the clock back to our previous glory, " he says.
"We will not turn the clock back in this country, " the Democratic presidential hopeful told a cheering crowd at the City Museum South Plaza.
Byron Dorgan, a Democrat from the farming state of North Dakota, wants to turn the clock back on trade relations between the U.S. and China.
Since the 2010 vote, "we've had an election on the president's tax plan, the president won, and Republicans can't turn the clock back, " said the spokesman, Brian Fallons.
Mr Jenkin stressed that no-one wanted to "turn the clock back" and he argued that the industry needed more government support, suggesting that the rail regulator was now "adversarial and legalistic".
Do we try to turn the clock back and regain those farm and factory jobs, or do we educate and train ourselves for the new higher value-added jobs of the future.
You can choose to turn the clock back 50 years for women and immigrants and gays, or in this election you can stand up for the principle that America includes everybody.
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Although it would be a great thing to be able to step out of time and read a book and then turn the clock back on and design its cover, in reality, it probably works better this way.
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On 2 June 2010, at David Cameron's first Commons question session as prime minister, Ms Harman said that the PM showed "no understanding" of the issue, warning that the proposals could "turn the clock back" on progress made in bringing rapists to justice.
These key post-Cold War allies also saw it as a tangible expression of the U.S. commitment to their security in the face of assiduous Russian efforts to reassert a sphere of influence that would turn the clock back, reestablishing in some form their unhappy status under the Kremlin's thumb.
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Kotkin grasps the scope and the scale of the challenge, but on account of the way the cultural and economic winds are blowing, he argues that Republicans must turn the clock all the way back to Lincoln himself.
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None of us ever gets the opportunity to turn back the clock, but with the benefit of hindsight, would I have done things differently?
Afterwards, MPs across the spectrum agreed that there was never the remotest chance to turn back the clock.
So, in place of its previous ambition to promote Taipei as an Asian financial centre, the bank is trying to turn back the clock.
In the Renaissance there was an attempt to turn back the clock.
These cuts will have little impact on the federal deficit, but they will turn back the clock on intelligence gathering and hamstring American efforts to keep pace with the daily, almost hourly, changes in strategically important countries.
No one wants to turn the labor practices clock back to a century ago.
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In his book, Make It In America: The Case for Re-Inventing the Economy, Dow Chemical Company CEO Andrew Liveris calls us to turn back the clock and return to a time when America was defined by the things it built.
Defeat in by-elections could provide them with the pretext to try to stall further reforms, or maybe even to turn back the clock.
Those who voted for Andrew RT Davies in the hope he'd turn back the Tory clock will have listened with a sinking feeling.
You can choose to turn back the clock 50 years on women and immigrants and gays.
Turn back the clock 30 year, and less than 20% of births occurred outside marriage.
We still have a long way to go, so we cannot afford to turn back the clock now.
Let's turn back the clock to 2002, the year Handspring launched its first smartphone, the monochrome 160 x 160-pixel Treo 180.
This basic misunderstanding, left unattended, may one day lead governments to turn back the clock on liberal trade.
It is clearly not beneficial to either country to turn back the clock.
One is to turn back the clock on financial integration: then pure-floating or semi-fixed systems might once again be used successfully.
On October 27th, you can agree to turn back the clock 50 years for women, and immigrants, and gays, and lesbians.
WHITEHOUSE: Remarks by the President at a Campaign Event -- Miami, FL
There are times where you wish you could turn back the clock.
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