Sentence examples for backwardness on from inspiring English sources

It is time to think again about the relation that the West is often quick to draw between religion and backwardness on the one hand, and secularism and modernity on the other.

Yee's arrest doesn't just underscore his complaints about Singapore's backwardness on rights and freedom.

New York's backwardness on this issue hurts public confidence in the judiciary.

More conservative clerics resisted, and in 1992 Mr. Khatami resigned, writing that he would rather "fight ignorance and backwardness" on his own.

But the weeks of fuss, in one of the few Arab countries with a vigorous legislature, underscore the enduring sensitivity of women's issues in Arab societies.Since 1899, when Qasim Amin, an Egyptian writer, published a seminal treatise blaming his society's backwardness on its oppression of women, Arab women have advanced, a little.

Canada, for its part, contributed about the square root of fuck-all, and was naturally awarded a fossil award for backwardness on the very first day of negotiations.

Many will look at this strange juxtaposition and blame it on the backwardness of the South, the narrow minds of the white poor, dusty rural ignorance.

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.

Talking to room full to the brim with the who's who of the Middle Eastern patrons, curators, and museum directors, he went on about the "creative backwardness of the region".

Mr. Obama, in his book, describes his first encounter with Mr. Ndesandjo, in which he heaped scorn on his father and the backwardness of Kenya.

Mr. Gandhi and the Congress party have blamed caste politics for the lingering backwardness of Uttar Pradesh, promising to focus on development, yet caste and religion continue to shape political equations.