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That more of the province's social, political, and cultural exchanges play out in polarizing online spaces means we'll probably see more towns galvanized into contrarian backwardness by the glare of the news cycle before it's all said and done.

What emerged from below in Egypt is, for now, the first pan-Arab movement that is not focused on expelling someone, or excluding someone, but on universal values with the goal of overcoming the backwardness produced by all previous ideologies and leaders.

To some, it's a language of backwardness spoken by people who've entered the country illegally who steal American jobs; Americans who study Spanish do so mostly because they need it for work — or so the thinking goes.

Many Arabs blame outsiders for their backwardness, and cope by rejecting modernity and the outside world.

But progress is, as ever, hindered by regulatory backwardness.

Southern Italy's backwardness is mostly explained by some local authorities squandering money on unnecessary projects.

Persistent neglect of education could no longer be explained by sheer backwardness and lack of funds: the Russian Empire of 1900 could have afforded a modern school system, albeit rudimentary, if its rulers had considered it a top priority.

There is a popular notion at large, part of a sort of phantom "bi-partisan" centrist conviction, that the degradation of American infrastructure, exemplified by the backwardness of our trains and airports, too, is a failure of the American political system.

As explained in Ollivier et al. [88], the German guidelines combine a quantitative analysis of the employment effects (due to the increased division of labor among regions) with a qualitative scoring of projects (depending on their impacts on territories characterized by structural backwardness).

According to him, these rural areas in South India are "marked by economic backwardness," and the elderly in these regions are a liability due to the high medical bills and the inaccessibility of health care.

Mills's Texas was not distinguished by its frontier past, but by its provincial backwardness.