Sentence examples for backward less from inspiring English sources

And since openness to foreign ideas is the single most important source of new technology and skills in developing countries, a reluctance to invest in new things is also likely to keep an economy more technologically backward, less skilled and more inward-looking.

The point he was trying to make is that all Muslims in the modern age are backward, less rational and less scientific than just one western institution.

Bellamy's Equality (1897), a sequel to Looking Backward, was less successful.

People in many countries are looking nostalgically backward, toward less connected, supposedly more secure times.

"It is absolutely staggering that the BHA has taken such a backward step, less than six months after the whip rules were introduced to react to public concern," he added.

In a book of essays he quoted earlier writers who, he said, were less backward.

The Cévennes are less backward than they were in Stevenson's day, but no less steep.

He quotes earlier writers (one a hero of Conrad's) who were far less backward.

Instead, I received a painful lesson: she needed to take a step backward and read less challenging books.

For Nairn, the populist new royals may make Britain seem less backward while actually making it more so.

But the televised award shows are more homogeneous since they tend to look forward and less backward, placing a wide spotlight on the newest hitmakers.