Sentence examples for social backwardness from inspiring English sources

This is a manifestation of social backwardness".

A democratic and modernising wave appears to be sweeping through the Middle East, mired for so long in autocracy and social backwardness.

But he said the book he considered "most solid" is "Capitalism and Slavery in Southern Brazil," an examination of how racially based servitude contributed directly to Brazil's economic and social backwardness.

The bumiputera equity requirement was part of a policy directive introduced in 1971 by Mr Najib's father, Abdul Razak, Malaysia's second prime minister, and was intended to reduce the economic and social backwardness of the Malay majority.

Emancipation had been intended to cure Russia's most basic social weakness, the backwardness and want into which serfdom cast the nation's peasantry.

The Mezzogiorno continued to be dominated by the owners of large estates after the unification of Italy in 1861, and the social and economic "backwardness" of the south became the subject of the Letteratura Meridionalista ("Southern Literature") in the late 19th century.

Lula himself plans to play a larger role in managing the coalition and relations with Congress.In victory, Lula has been conciliatory, saying that the "true adversaries" are backwardness and social injustice.

Fraser and Navarro, however, counter these claims, writing that Ramón Cereijo, Minister of Finance, kept records, and that the foundation "began as the simplest response to the poverty (Evita) encountered each day in her office" and "the appalling backwardness of social services or charity, as it was still called in Argentina".

While traditional society was generally presumed to be backward, Nyerere saw its social and economic possibilities for overcoming backwardness.

Earlier reformers, progressives of his day, and later New Dealers lamented the nation's resistance to models abroad for correctives to the backwardness of American social politics.

The stars of every bookstore were the large historical tomes that sought out the root causes of Turkey's poverty and "backwardness" and its social and political upheavals.