Monarchs were blamed for social injustice, political corruption, and economic backwardness, and they were consequently overthrown.
Only friendship with the West could end backwardness and isolation.Deeds matched the words.
Many Arabs blame outsiders for their backwardness, and cope by rejecting modernity and the outside world.
By contrast, the populous south remains locked in poverty, backwardness and neglect.
"That's a fitting script for a party locked in the throes of backwardness and reaction".
"A lot of multinationals are present there, but also rural backwardness and patches of extreme poverty".
She is a kind of one-person opposition party, criticizing the political class for backwardness and hypocrisy.
Writers like Dostoevsky and Turgenev used vodka to highlight the backwardness and moral bankruptcy of the autocratic order.
Foreigners used to stereotypes about Polish disorganisation, backwardness and prejudice find plenty to surprise them.The clearest success is the economy.
But Sam, for one, would sneer at such backwardness, and "Birdman," right now, is on the money.
In university, she abandoned Confucian values, which were then blamed for Chinese backwardness, and embraced German culture.
