Sentence examples for backward area from inspiring English sources

Ningxia was formerly a backward area in education.

Even in the relatively backward area of Yunfu, locals estimate that a third of homes have access to the web.

She bought a house in a rural, backward area of Pennsylvania, where the people were ignorant & superstitious.

But whatever the reasons, the city seems to be turning into an economically backward area, like Arkansas or New Hampshire.

AN OIL rush that has brought unprecedented wealth to Shaanxi Province, a remote and backward area of China, has come to a sudden and traumatic end.

"This is a backward area," the former prime minister, a soft-spoken and amiable man, said just before supporters showered him with rose petals.

Mr Hussain's parliamentary committee recommends distributing such revenues according to need, with the most backward areas receiving most money.

Surprisingly the problem of out-migration, from urban areas especially from small and medium size towns of backward areas, has largely been ignored.

The Romans, who fell heir to the Hellenistic world, transplanted the city into the technologically backward areas beyond the Alps inhabited by pastoral-agricultural Celtic and Germanic peoples.

Moreover, these centres radiated economic and cultural influence around them and so had an immense effect, particularly on the way of life of the more backward areas.

Most child laborers do not work in trade-related industries but in more backward areas of the economy — mainly in agriculture and retail trade.