The association popularly made between the feudal construct and ignorance and barbarism fostered its extension to regions which Europeans scarcely knew and which they considered backward and primitive.
The next step for Hrubesch, a hulking center-forward in his time, might be considered backward.
It was considered backward music for tourists; it was Dixie Beatlemania.
In the 1970s, this generation also took to the streets, yelling anti-government slogans, opposing school reforms considered backward and elitist.
School for Fools is based on Sasha Sokolov's 1950s novel about a boy who is considered backward and sent to a school for the mentally ill.
For American progressives, the point of centralised federal control is so often to ensure that states considered backward in one way or another are not allowed to offer programmes deemed insufficient by enlightened technocrats.
Politicians win elections in India by promising to bestow this one-time curse, which has led to a dramatic expansion in those considered backward decades after the designation had true economic meaning.
As we have seen, back in 1970, no scientists held the view that Africa was the evolutionary home of modern humans; the region was considered backward and largely irrelevant, with the pendulum of scientific opinion strongly swinging towards non-African and Neanderthal ancestry models.
The election upsets the power hierarchy in Turkey, a secular democracy whose citizens are Muslims, by opening up the presidency — an elite secular post that was first occupied by this country's founder, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk — to a new class of reform-minded leaders from Turkey's provinces, for decades considered backward by the elite.
Many employers are unwilling to employ North Koreans, whom they consider backward, leaving many to subsist on government largesse.
