Sentence examples for to backwardness from inspiring English sources

"The frenetic violence and destruction that terrorist groups practiced in Iraq during the past few years were aimed at creating an Iraq that belongs to backwardness and darkness rather than an Iraq of the 21st century," the report said.

Rather than attribute a crime like this to backwardness, we would do better to see how deeply it is woven into the fabric of migration and modernity in which all of us are implicated.

For people who love to dwell in contradictions, the US is the greatest country in the world: the land of the free built on slavery, the country of law and order where everyone is entitled to a gun, a place of unimpeded progress where they cling to backwardness out of sheer stubbornness.

In his passionate dissent in Palmer, Justice Douglas compared swimming pool access and segregation to schools, arguing that maintaining such systems "would dedicate the State to backwardness, ignorance and existence in a new Dark Age".

I am also not attributing the placement of the Khaleeji woman atop the social pyramid -- where she can be scrutinized, adored, and resented at the same time -- to backwardness.

They also appealed for reform of the language, education, and change to the social mores as a way to overcome backwardness and to renew people's mentality with a more western view.

Friday in science, clues to owls' backwardness, fresh dangers to the seas and the launch of a giant kite.

By lauding a woman who is not trying to reform Islam but rather drawing attention to its backwardness, we do a disservice to a readership that already knows too little about why Islam is meaningful to so many people (Christopher Caldwell, April 3).

To Modernists like Peter Behrens and Walter Gropius, these buildings not only signified the arrival of a new age, they were also a testament to the backwardness and squalor of many European medieval cities. Projects like Behrens's 1909 AEG Turbine Factory, built in Berlin, sought to integrate the raw power of these new industrial spaces into the centuries-old architectural traditions of Europe.

Still, by sending these two women to London under the guise of progress, Saudi Arabia will indeed be taking a trophy home for once again proving that among its Arab neighbors, when it comes to blatant backwardness, hypocrisy and systemic gender discrimination, it takes home the gold, and then some.

First, he invoked Lenin's theory of imperialism to explain Chinese "backwardness" and to justify a revolution in a poor agricultural society without the sizable industrial proletariat that Marx believed was generally necessary to instigate a workers' revolution.