Sentence examples for relative backwardness from inspiring English sources
China's leaders also know how much their power over international affairs remains constrained by China's relative backwardness, economic and military.
To the extent that there was a problem with the fishing industry, it was due to its "relative backwardness".
Much has been made of Germany's relative backwardness in the internet economy compared with its success in the industrial one.
But a vociferous minority in East Germany has begun demanding quick reunification, arguing that this is the only cure for East Germany's relative backwardness.
The difference between Japan's economic success and India's relative backwardness, for instance, is largely explained by the fact that Japanese managers were able to plant imported management concepts in their own cultural soil and make them grow.
Alex Zoghlin, chief technology officer of Orbitz, a travel Web site started last spring by a consortium of airlines, attributed the relative backwardness of reservations technology until recently to the airline industry's reluctance to invest in it.
The observation that those interventions -- the Congress of Berlin in 1878, the wars and diplomacy that ushered in and settled World War I, World War II and its resolution -- guaranteed the relative economic backwardness of the Balkans, compared to the rest of Europe" will not do as economic history.
The biggest obstacle, according to Dyker, was the weakness of the economy which had undermined Soviet influence outside its borders considerably during the late Brezhnev due to its relative technological backwardness.
According to Steven Durlauf of the University of Wisconsin and his co-authors, economists have found almost as many "determinants of growth" (from coups to Confucianism) as there are countries with data.Goldman Sachs takes the BRICs' income per person, relative to that of America, as a proxy for their economic backwardness.
ECONOMIC backwardness has its advantages.
This is a manifestation of social backwardness".
