"The frenetic violence and destruction that terrorist groups practiced in Iraq during the past few years were aimed at creating an Iraq that belongs to backwardness and darkness rather than an Iraq of the 21st century," the report said.
DAPQ scores less than 75% or 1SD below the average for sex and age group were classified as mental backwardness or dullness while less than 50% or 2SD below age and sex average were classified as mental deficiency [ 32].
IN A country where 800m people, about 60% of the population, live in the countryside on an average income of less than a dollar a day, rural backwardness weighs heavily on the minds of China's leaders as they dream of joining the ranks of the world's leading economies.
For the absolute rulers of the GCC, given their suspicion of Iranian intentions, economic failure and backwardness in Iran and Iraq may be more important goal than OPEC cohesion.
By 1910 Germany's population exploded to a level two-thirds greater than France's, while vast Russia's population nearly doubled from 1850 to 1910 until it was more than 70 percent greater than Germany's, although Russia's administrative and technical backwardness offset to a degree her advantage in numbers.
Rather than attribute a crime like this to backwardness, we would do better to see how deeply it is woven into the fabric of migration and modernity in which all of us are implicated.
Instead, the Japanese overcame their backwardness, through generations of dedicated work and study, rather than redefining it out of existence.
Emerging market economies such as China, India, Chile and Indonesia have solved the problem of backwardness; they are exploiting their labor advantage and growing much faster than the U.S. If America is going to remain on top, we have to compete in an increasingly tough environment.
ECONOMIC backwardness has its advantages.
This is a manifestation of social backwardness".
