Sentence examples for backward countries from inspiring English sources

They whup small, backward countries that brutalize their own people and get dizzying approval ratings.

Of all the backward countries of North Africa, Libya is the most backward.

Some internationalists (including Mill) supported the idea that enlightenment could be exported to "backward" countries.

In backward countries, foreign investors may simply refuse to do that.

Maybe UEFA, and FIFA, will have to use exclusion as a way of showing backward countries that their so-called Beautiful Game will not harbor racism any longer.

As Britain's first minister of overseas development, she pulled together a disparate array of aid programs run by different departments and subjected them all to a single test: the promotion of development in backward countries.

"Afghanistan is a backward country," he said.

"Maybe they just think that Russia is a backward country".

"They're all peasants, it's a backward country".

Yet here we are, a deeply backward country peering at modernity from the threshold.

When I left Iran to go abroad to school, in 1960, this was still a backward country.