Sentence examples for backward people from inspiring English sources

"It cannot be defeated by backward people".

"Not a backward people, but an insane country," he remarked.

They thought of the European élite as backward people who wanted to acquire culture from China".

People all over the world stereotype Indians as a backward people, she said.

"They said, 'These backward people in the Middle East understand nothing.

In Durham's view, union would also hasten the assimilation of the French, whom he viewed as a backward people.

There is something repellently absurd in the notion that war is a vice of "backward" peoples.

But political and economic modernisers elsewhere also exacted a terrible human cost from their allegedly backward peoples.

It was widely touted, even while suppressing recalcitrant diversity, as the carrier of political and economic modernity to backward peoples; and modernity itself was defined explicitly as social justice and gender equality, expedited through planned and protected industrial growth.

The clearance of forests in Malaysia, Indonesia and the occupied territory of West Papua, for example, has been accompanied by sermons about the need to drag "backward" peoples and regions into the light of progress.

A self-satisfied and largely hegemonic belief survives in Britain that the empire was an imaginative, civilising enterprise, reluctantly undertaken, that brought the benefits of modern society to backward peoples.