Sentence examples for backwardness from inspiring English sources

Twenty-first century provincial France is quickly accelerating well beyond any cliches that Parisians might have about the backwardness of provincial life.

But the pornification of everything is everywhere still, insanely sexualised images of women still the norm: back in the day when we were sticking feminist messages on tube station ads that demeaned women, we thought the sheer archaic dirty-old-man backwardness of all that would bring advertisers to their senses – but it got worse.

In regional meetings with prosperous neighbours, Myanmar's backwardness was a mounting humiliation.

The EIU sees three sets of factors at work".First, the region has some advantages of backwardness that cushion the region's populations from the impact of the economic downturn.

"First finding from Omid: earth is round!" read the lighthearted gibe at what many Iranians stubbornly bemoan as the provincial backwardness of their rulers.

Sooner or later, a municipality or a supposedly blue-chip borrower will turn out to have done some over-optimistic sums, with nasty consequences.In the meantime, the most pressing financial problem in the post-communist world is the backwardness of the banking system.

Only friendship with the West could end backwardness and isolation.Deeds matched the words.

Still less do they associate the country with chaos and backwardness, or with futile wartime heroics.

On January 29th the chairman of the government's securities outfit, Valentin Shukhno, complained about the backwardness of Belarus's state-controlled financial exchange.All this comes after months when Mr Lukashenka had vengefully crushed the remains of the opposition and closed down most of the independent press.

And even after WTO membership, the possibilities for commercial involvement in China's Internet will be dogged by the country's backwardness.

He insists that he is no racist, but is voicing justifiable concerns about the backwardness of Islamic civilisation and culture.