Sentence examples for the backwardness of from inspiring English sources

Starting from the assumption that blasphemy can exist only in a backward society, critics point to blasphemy as evidence of the backwardness of entire religious cultures.

It reproduces the backwardness of Britain in constitutional terms.

The backwardness of Prussia was revealed by the disaster of 1806.

He insists that he is no racist, but is voicing justifiable concerns about the backwardness of Islamic civilisation and culture.

However, an old Gramscian truth about Italy must be remembered: the "backwardness" of its capitalism is paradigmatic.

But I realise that it is in the backwardness of India that lies the possibilities of development.

For Bin Laden, as for the grand masters of the Assassins, the technical backwardness of the Middle East is not a hindrance but a tremendous opportunity.

The reason for the technological backwardness of the merchant marine were First World induced boycotts of Soviet shipping.

Because of the relative backwardness of the Iraqi military and the open terrain of the desert, the Gulf War was a kind of "dust-free laboratory in which all the conditions were on our side," as William Arkin, a former Army intelligence analyst who now does military research for Greenpeace, has observed.

Bin Laden's appeal to desperate young men in the Middle East is his ability to gather up all their legitimate grievances - against the economic backwardness of the region, the sufferings of civilians under United Nations sanctions in Iraq, the actions of Israel - and focus them on the superpower at the other end of the scale of misery: the United States of America.

During the 15th and 16th centuries, Sardinian literature that focused on the history of medicine was poor and attests to the extreme backwardness of the medical culture and the sanitary structures (8 ).