Sentence examples for backward practice from inspiring English sources
The Ugandan government is to pass a new law banning the "brutal and backward" practice of female genital mutilation (FGM).
When Egypt's culture minister casually told an interviewer that he personally considered veiling a backward practice, the ensuing public outcry forced him to recant.
Initially forbidden by the communist regimes of the first half of the 20th century on account of its ritual and ethnic associations and because it was considered a "backward" practice, throat-singing became re-established as a national art form during the 1980s in both Mongolia and Russia.
Where circumcision is seen as a "backward" practice, it is likely that communities will resist the intervention.
Wearing his cap backward during practice and smiling often, Griffey was such a sensation that he quickly had a candy bar named for him.
In 1997 Bob Knight, then the basketball coach at Indiana, grabbed one of his players, Neil Reed, by the neck and pushed him backward in practice.
Though our laws are woefully backward, in practice we look at it as a right, not a privilege.
Until the 20th century, the spread of machine industry was retarded by customs & institutions that belonged to an earlier era of scarcity--an age marked by an insufficiency of extra-human energy, of material goods, & even food Natural scarcity & backward agricultural practices, plus socially enforced penury & deprivation, were the incentives to daily work.
In addition to his hometown, Moore faulted the United Methodist Church for failing to reverse what he saw as backward, discriminatory practices like homophobia and support for the death penalty.
The American Civil Liberties Union said, "The proposed regulations are a step backward from current practice because they require only notice and not consent".
Those decisions were far from universally popular at the time, but a wide-ranging consensus has since emerged that capital punishment is a backward and unjust practice, analysts say.
