"That's a fitting script for a party locked in the throes of backwardness and reaction".
That the firm has just one bored computer specialist is not a sign of backwardness.
Nonetheless, quotas have transformed the taint of "backwardness" into a coveted designation.
Until now, China's trains had always been a symbol of backwardness.
For an influential group of advanced thinkers, violence is a type of backwardness.
Kennedy evidently agrees that this lack of penetration is a sign of backwardness.
A head scarf became a symbol of backwardness, of being uneducated and under pressure from conservative husbands.
He points out that, aside from some pockets of backwardness, the whole world has been getting much richer.
If there is a high turnout at the ballot boxes, then I expect Egyptians to surprise the world and defeat the forces of backwardness and darkness.
Nor could the Inquisition alone have condemned Spain to centuries of backwardness in science and education; after all, Cervantes thrived while the Inquisition did.
"After fifty years of persecution, they are being given power, and this will bring the Arab world to a state of backwardness," he said.
