Sentence examples for material backwardness from inspiring English sources

That combination of cultural depth and material backwardness is the central message of Sigurdur Gylfi Magnusson's social history of one of Europe's smallest and remotest countries.Given its 300,000 population (about the size of New Orleans), Iceland produces a lot of news.

ECONOMIC backwardness has its advantages.

This is a manifestation of social backwardness".

That challenge is poverty and economic backwardness".

Apartheid, intolerance, ignorance and backwardness fester.

A little backwardness would be healthy".

It is almost Luddite in its backwardness.

He says to forget the backwardness.

Now, I disagree with how the government identifies backwardness.

But France's backwardness now represents an opportunity.

The mechanisms for fighting poverty and backwardness are dysfunctional.