Sentence examples for backward attitudes from inspiring English sources

"Out of interest, is the Rio Ferdinand criticising backward attitudes to woman the same Rio Ferdinand who organised this party?" - Calum Loudon.

We may sneer at the "backward" attitudes of the developing world towards rape victims, but how far behind western attitudes are they in reality?

The prime minister said he would not avoid telling the "hard truths" required to confront the minority of Muslim men whose "backward attitudes" led them to exert "damaging control" over women in their families.

The Prime Minister claimed that some 190,000 British Muslim women, or 22%, speak little or no English, and suggested that a minority of men were promoting "backward attitudes" and exerting "damaging control" over their female relatives.

I suspect there's also "rural" or backward attitudes at play in the state legislatures that allow DV as a "pre-existing" condition.

Despite the obstacles of backward attitudes and stubbornly discriminatory institutions, the hardnosed Southerner was able to deliver more on the civil rights agenda than his predecessor, President John F. Kennedy, an Irish Catholic from Massachusetts, ever could have done.

That's a backward attitude.

'A bit like it is in France now,' laughs Stella, who, like any non-meat eater, must find that country's somewhat backward attitude to the meat-free life deeply frustrating.

The very existence of a movie satirizing Hollywood's backward racial attitudes was surely a sign that they were on the way out.

Multi-agency safety testing, as its name suggests, is supported by several groups including, most importantly, the local police in Manchester, who have a forward-looking and responsible attitude to young people's drug use, in contrast to the regressive, backward looking attitude of the Met.

Cardinal Michele Pellegrino, of Turin, one of the most progressive Italian prelates, in a recent article here entitled "What the Church Means and Does Not Mean by Change," defined the true nature of aggiornamento and criticized, without mentioning the Pope, what is now recognized as Paul's fear-ridden and backward-looking attitude.