Sentence examples for A backwardness from inspiring English sources

The authors go as far as inferring an eastern German "resistance to modernization," a "barrier" to modernization, and a "backwardness" of mentalities from their qualitative study in a rural region of eastern Germany.

All this alongside a cultural backwardness yields a population with a large youth unemployment, who then become susceptible to fundamentalist-jihadi propaganda.

A little backwardness would be healthy".

This is the paradox that I find most curious: we are at once a sophisticated nation benefiting from scientific and technological advances, and yet we can display a surprising backwardness.

As such, he had a firm faith in the progress of man, civilization, and Western Christendom; hence, he saw American slavery as a brutal backwardness that ran counter to the progress of history.

PARIS — Calling itself a defender of free speech and a denouncer of religious backwardness, a French satirical newspaper on Wednesday published several crude caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad, images viewed as a provocation by many Muslims and condemned by the French government as irresponsible at a time of violence and unrest across the Islamic world.

IN A country where 800m people, about 60% of the population, live in the countryside on an average income of less than a dollar a day, rural backwardness weighs heavily on the minds of China's leaders as they dream of joining the ranks of the world's leading economies.

Halappanavar's death made people who usually ignore the fact that Ireland is a little dot of backwardness in a sea of progressive reproductive values sit up and take note.

A head scarf became a symbol of backwardness, of being uneducated and under pressure from conservative husbands.

Sciolino quotes an Iranian woman writer who says that the black, tentlike chador is a changing symbol: "An emblem now of progress, then of backwardness, a badge now of nationalism, then of domination, a symbol of purity, then of corruption, the veil has accommodated itself to a puzzling diversity of personal and political ideologies".

The custom of women wearing face veils is not a welcome tradition but a symbol of extremism and backwardness, said a senior Chinese official on Thursday.