Sentence examples for Was backwardness from inspiring English sources

Rather, Russia's problem in the late 19th century was backwardness.

Lula himself plans to play a larger role in managing the coalition and relations with Congress.In victory, Lula has been conciliatory, saying that the "true adversaries" are backwardness and social injustice.

Sooner or later, a municipality or a supposedly blue-chip borrower will turn out to have done some over-optimistic sums, with nasty consequences.In the meantime, the most pressing financial problem in the post-communist world is the backwardness of the banking system.

In regional meetings with prosperous neighbours, Myanmar's backwardness was a mounting humiliation.

It wasn't mathematical backwardness that led geographers away from this approach but the conviction that to rely too heavily on maths was a dead end.

One man made the observation that the lag in Rumania's progress was the ingrown backwardness, & apathy of the peasants, & that Communism had done something to shake them out of it.

The veil, fixed in the 19th century by the French as a symbol of Islam's primitive backwardness, was used to justify the brutal pacification of north African Muslims and to exclude them from full citizenship.

Tyminski's major error: his political backwardness was a little ahead of its time.

As a fleeting glimpse of the Old Weird America of tent-shows and carnivals and rural backwardness that was long gone before anyone thought to commit it to celluloid.

Cela's framing of Pascual's story as a morality tale - warning the public against bad conduct - deceived few, as, clearly, the illiterate murderer was a victim of backwardness and poverty.

The French in the 19th century identified the veil as a symbol of Islam's primitive backwardness; it was used to justify the brutal pacification of north African Muslims and to exclude them from full citizenship.