Sentence examples for relatively backward from inspiring English sources

Australian courts can seem relatively backward in comparison.

The areas where the immolations and protests occurred are still relatively backward.

One is the drive to develop China's relatively backward western interior.

Heavy foreign investment and booming export industries have left China flush with foreign currency, but its financial system remains relatively backward and focused inward, analysts say.

Agricultural trade will be liberalised, but that is unlikely to be much help to them in the short term because their farm sectors are relatively backward and inefficient.

Spanish agriculture has remained relatively backward by western European standards: capital investment per hectare is about one-fifth the average for the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), and the vast majority of farms are small.

It's a relatively backward-looking list, devoid of indie rockers like Jack White or female artists like Bonnie Raitt.

Anyway, as Thomas says, Wales is a relatively poor, backward economy — according to Eurostat, poorer than Greece — that shares a currency with a large area that is more affluent on average.

The beam spot will only partially overlap with the scattering signal for inelastic channels with relatively large backward scattered components, as typically found for excitation into states with j>7/2.

When the British left, India was relatively poor and backward.

And they can help to train and equip the country's relatively small, and backward, armed forces.