Sentence examples for about the backwardness from inspiring English sources

He insists that he is no racist, but is voicing justifiable concerns about the backwardness of Islamic civilisation and culture.

Twenty-first century provincial France is quickly accelerating well beyond any cliches that Parisians might have about the backwardness of provincial life.

From time to time, he would break into pidgin English to drive home a political point about the backwardness of Africa or the corruption of its leaders.

In Tibet the unifying power of religion and reverence for the Dalai Lama give urban and rural Tibetans strong common cause.Chinese officials have long been fretting about the backwardness of the Tibetan countryside.

The complaints in part reflect real problems and in part, perhaps, stereotypes among the middle-class Taiwanese about the backwardness of mainlanders -- biases that are only strengthened by the influx of low-end job seekers.

Is he ready to lead America?" ACCURACY -- The advertisement is a compendium of the accusations about the backwardness of life in Texas under Mr. Bush that the Gore campaign has made a cornerstone of its effort to defeat him.

Mostly, though, people just talk: about the cultural backwardness of Russia, the shape of history, the nature of reality.

Talking to room full to the brim with the who's who of the Middle Eastern patrons, curators, and museum directors, he went on about the "creative backwardness of the region".

However, an old Gramscian truth about Italy must be remembered: the "backwardness" of its capitalism is paradigmatic.

I detect a whiff of this cultural fatalism in Mitt Romney's patronizing remarks about the superiority of Israeli culture and the backwardness of Palestinian culture.

By scrutinizing the history of water transfers and hydropower development in the Lima region, the paper shows how imaginaries about the superiority of engineering, the need to generate electricity for national development, the backwardness of the 'land of lagoons' where water is diverted from, and about wished-for water abundance in Lima, all became manifested in hydraulic megaprojects.