Sentence examples for backwardness to from inspiring English sources

He was too ashamed of his backwardness to ask any questions.

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

This deceleration was inevitable as China advanced from extreme poverty and technological backwardness to become a middle-income economy powered by external trade and consumer spending.

These ambitious modern histories had an angry tone, in sharp contrast to the old Ottoman histories by now being churned out in modern Turkish editions, which would never cast too much blame on us for the catastrophes we had suffered, preferring to attribute our poverty, our lack of education and our "backwardness" to foreign powers or a handful of evil and corrupted souls in our midst.

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.

Beijing conveniently ignores the fact that China was similar in its social structures and level of poverty and backwardness to Tibet, says Powers.

They also appealed for reform of the language, education, and change to the social mores as a way to overcome backwardness and to renew people's mentality with a more western view.

First, he invoked Lenin's theory of imperialism to explain Chinese "backwardness" and to justify a revolution in a poor agricultural society without the sizable industrial proletariat that Marx believed was generally necessary to instigate a workers' revolution.

"If we do not attempt to discover the magic sense of things, we will do no more than add new sources of degradations to those already offered to people today, which are beyond number... if the powers of backwardness continue to spread, if they push us any further into the dead end of cruelty and incomprehension, that will be the end of all human dignity," he wrote.

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.

Kavanaugh's interpretation of it is exceptional in its backwardness, attempting to wring the complete opposite conclusion from what has been accepted for more than a decade.