Sentence examples for backward country from inspiring English sources

Ayaan comes from a backward country.

"Afghanistan is a backward country," he said.

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

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

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

Mauritania, a backward country in many other respects, has had no executions since 1987.

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.

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

Measured by indicators such as infant mortality, literacy, employment and income distribution, Brazil still ranked alongside El Salvador and Peru among Latin America's more backward countries.