Sentence examples for backwardness a from inspiring English sources
No doubt European bafflement at American religiosity has overtones of condescension toward American cultural "backwardness," a condescension that often thinly conceals envy and resentment.
PARIS — Calling itself a defender of free speech and a denouncer of religious backwardness, a French satirical newspaper on Wednesday published several crude caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad, images viewed as a provocation by many Muslims and condemned by the French government as irresponsible at a time of violence and unrest across the Islamic world.
Sciolino quotes an Iranian woman writer who says that the black, tentlike chador is a changing symbol: "An emblem now of progress, then of backwardness, a badge now of nationalism, then of domination, a symbol of purity, then of corruption, the veil has accommodated itself to a puzzling diversity of personal and political ideologies".
All this alongside a cultural backwardness yields a population with a large youth unemployment, who then become susceptible to fundamentalist-jihadi propaganda.
The custom of women wearing face veils is not a welcome tradition but a symbol of extremism and backwardness, said a senior Chinese official on Thursday.
Halappanavar's death made people who usually ignore the fact that Ireland is a little dot of backwardness in a sea of progressive reproductive values sit up and take note.
For every story about feudalism, caste repression and the ongoing backwardness of a largely rural country, Mr Das counters with optimism about a bright, fast-rising, urban middle class.
It's all a rare and cheering triumph in a Russia more noted for its collapsing infrastructure and technological backwardness than a cutting edge entertainment industry.
Nonetheless, quotas have transformed the taint of "backwardness" into a coveted designation.
In regional meetings with prosperous neighbours, Myanmar's backwardness was a mounting humiliation.
I kept waiting for him to catch my eye in the middle of one of his clinical descriptions and shake his head over the backwardness of a society obsessed with virginity and prostitution.
