Sentence examples for backwardness of the from inspiring English sources

For their part, the French marveled at the indolence and backwardness of the Egyptians.

A LOT of the wounding comparative statistics trotted out to demonstrate the backwardness of the Arabs appeared first in the Arab Human Development Report of 2002.

"If the big leaders would have come by road at least they will see the road condition and the backwardness of the area".

Are we looking at yet another humiliating gimmick that displays the constitutional backwardness of the UK in the name of "popular involvement"?

For Bin Laden, as for the grand masters of the Assassins, the technical backwardness of the Middle East is not a hindrance but a tremendous opportunity.

Modern Turkey's defining event the defeat of a Greek expeditionary force dispatched with Western backing was also the starting-point of a ruthless reform effort whose declared aims included "fighting religion" and ending the theocratic backwardness of the Ottomans.

Mostly, though, people just talk: about the cultural backwardness of Russia, the shape of history, the nature of reality.

The scarcity of precious metals points to lack of wealth as prime cause of the artistic backwardness of these regions.

Spain's tourism boom traces its roots to the rebuilding of the country after the dictator Francisco Franco -- the man most responsible for the "economic backwardness of Spain and the poverty of its people" that Frommer observed -- fell from power in 1975.

The woman, identified as an Arab-American psychologist, celebrates the "civilization" of the West and denigrates the "backwardness" of Islam, according to the English subtitles.

From time to time, he would break into pidgin English to drive home a political point about the backwardness of Africa or the corruption of its leaders.