Sentence examples for backwards country from inspiring English sources

"backwards country" is correct and usable in written English.
This phrase can be used to describe a country which is viewed by its people and/or other countries as having outdated customs, laws, social developments, and/or progress. For example: "Many people consider Saudi Arabia to be a backwards country, due to its restrictive laws and customs."

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"Not in the United States and not in the most backwards country in the world".

The Soviet Union folded ten months after losing a total of 15,000 men in Afghanistan, a backwards country on its own southern frontier.

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"I mean, look at a backwards western country like the United States.

Salter added, "I've thought about it a great deal, and I may have it backwards — your country is your language.

Usually the scammer needs emergency surgery that can only be paid for in cash (because he/she is in a "backwards" foreign country).

Here's how.

And they're taking the country backwards.

That is pushing the country backwards.

Take your country backwards, more like.

It is taking the country backwards and threatening standards.

"You are hurling the country backwards, into absolutism".

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