Sentence examples for backwardness into from inspiring English sources

Nonetheless, quotas have transformed the taint of "backwardness" into a coveted designation.

Italy's membership undoubtedly helped to transform the country from peasant backwardness into industrial dynamism, a transformation in which it overtook Britain in terms of income per person and could proudly take its seat at the G7 table of rich economies.

From then onwards Nasser had three aims: to rid Egypt of foreign influence, and especially of the British; to unite the Arabs; and to bring his people out of feudal backwardness into twentieth century life.

Emancipation had been intended to cure Russia's most basic social weakness, the backwardness and want into which serfdom cast the nation's peasantry.

"They want to push us into backwardness so we are like them," said Ali Abdo, a professor of transportation engineering at Aden University and a member of a party that supports decentralization but not secession.

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.

This much-praised extravaganza, which had a test run at Irving Plaza in March, is the next step forward into backwardness: one of the first big touring rap oldies bills, with Slick Rick, Stetsasonic, U.T.F.O., Special Ed, Kool Moe Dee, Big Daddy Kane, Whodini and more.

The war had revealed Russia's glaring backwardness in comparison with more advanced nations like England and France.

His successor and protégé, President Dmitri A. Medvedev, has articulated a tentative reform agenda well received in the West, warning that Russia risks slipping into economic backwardness, corruption and political stagnation.

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.

And it heralded imperial China's decline into impotence and backwardness.