Sentence examples for and backwardness in the from inspiring English sources

"Poverty and backwardness in the midst of clear waters and verdant mountains is no good," he said, "nor is it to have prosperity and wealth while the environment deteriorates".

For the absolute rulers of the GCC, given their suspicion of Iranian intentions, economic failure and backwardness in Iran and Iraq may be more important goal than OPEC cohesion.

Yes, the trailer's line ""I think he's asking is do you have a hot dog or a bun?" is poking fun of Derek and Hansel's general backwardness in the modern world; but let's not pretend like Theroux's not intending audiences to have a little giggle at the very existence of Cumberbatch's genderfluid model All.

These are the totems of the country's backwardness in the international community.

Much has been made of Germany's relative backwardness in the internet economy compared with its success in the industrial one.

"Any modernization in the verses means backwardness in the principles," Abu Hamza al-Mazri, an influential Egyptian sheik who preaches from a mosque in northeastern London, said in an interview.

Brena's music painted a chilling portrait of rural backwardness in the SFRY, one drastically at odds with the party line.

As Guillermo Osorno, a writer and editor of the Mexican digital journal Horizontal, told me in an e-mail, Ebrard also "gave the city a unique narrative as a progressive city as opposed to the conservatism and political backwardness in other areas of the country".

For their part, the French marveled at the indolence and backwardness of the Egyptians.

Furthermore, the memory of poverty and backwardness is ever-present in the collective consciousness.

Most of them, shocked by the poverty and backwardness of rural life, became disillusioned.