Sentence examples for out of backwardness from inspiring English sources

Forty-four years later, they pulled Leipzig, Dresden, and Erfurt out of backwardness and poverty.

He points out that, aside from some pockets of backwardness, the whole world has been getting much richer.

From then onwards Nasser had three aims: to rid Egypt of foreign influence, and especially of the British; to unite the Arabs; and to bring his people out of feudal backwardness into twentieth century life.

School is central to the American myth of self-transcendence, whether it's Thomas Jefferson's seedbed of the republican spirit, or the one-room schoolhouse that propelled Abe Lincoln out of frontier backwardness, or those teeming junior high schools in Brooklyn that served as the melting pot for three generations of children from Russia and Italy and Ireland.

"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.