Sentence examples for and very backward from inspiring English sources

Oddly, Japan is very advanced in the former and very backward in the latter.

As backwaters go it is both extremely watery, because of the rains, and very backward.

AT least one eternal truth can be abstracted from D. W. Griffith's 1915 film "The Birth of a Nation": people can be very, very advanced in some areas, and very, very backward in others.

The people over there are very backward and very primitive, and they just make a mess out of everything".

Our politics are very backward, and that threatens the economic and social advances that we have managed in recent years.

Like the Maasai [community] still have female genital mutilation (FGM) – it is very backward and dangerous.

"She was very backward and Sir Henry didn't want to run her at two or three.

It's a very backward approach and comes from a real lack of understanding".

"The only exit the regime is offering right now is to restore the wall of fear and turn Syria into a very backward society through methods which would make it impossible for the regime to open the political system in any meaningful way," a Damascus-based analyst said on the condition of anonymity, given the danger of the situation there.

"If you look at Brunei, Singapore, Malaysia, Myanmar, and also Laos, it's very backward when it comes to LGBT rights … but even in the other, more 'progressive' countries, there are problems.

In an industry which is always looking forward and very seldom backward, that is something special.