Sentence examples for backwardness from from inspiring English sources

Dr. Singhal said these factors, combined with what is widely described as the "Alabama" stigma, which is associated with images of racial prejudice and rural backwardness from past decades, sharply limits recruitment.

In its way, this hoisting of a great mass from backwardness is inspiring.

Concepts like solidarity and helping third world countries to fight poverty and backwardness have disappeared from the political vocabulary.

The corporate devil gave the Irish Faust a pretty good price for his soul: a way of moving from backwardness to modernity.

Historically, Sweden rose from backwardness and poverty into a highly developed postindustrial society and advanced welfare state with a standard of living and life expectancy that rank among the highest in the world.

When Bashar succeeded his father, there was at least a hint in his early interviews and speeches that he wanted to build his legitimacy on modernizing Syria and lifting it from backwardness, not on hating Israel.

That Croom would be hired as a coach in Mississippi, which is still confronting stereotypes of backwardness and resistance from the civil rights era, is a sign of the state's often unappreciated progress, Meredith said yesterday from his home in Jackson, Miss.

Over A Barrel Faster than ever before in the history of nations, the desert Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is emerging from backwardness to world power.

It is a simple matter of justice that America, in dealing creatively with the task of raising the Negro from backwardness, should also be rescuing a large stratum of the forgotten white poor.

The authors go as far as inferring an eastern German "resistance to modernization," a "barrier" to modernization, and a "backwardness" of mentalities from their qualitative study in a rural region of eastern Germany.

The unstated logic is that the real threat to open societies today comes from all the angry young men and women being produced by the misgovernance, backwardness and extremism emanating from that part of the world.