Sentence examples for too backward from inspiring English sources

"You guys are too backward," the Chinese friend responds.

Is Afghanistan too backward a country to ever progress?

"They kept reminding me not to show China as too backward and too poor," he says.

Russia, they say, is too big and too backward to be governed exactly like a western country.

Many political gatekeepers still cling to myths about how there's something "the matter with Kansas," how workers are too backward to know what's best for themselves politically.

He repeats the claim that Russia was too backward to produce the socialist dream in which Marx believed, corrupted as it was by Asiatic sentiments.

"We've become too backward-looking.

They also viewed Warren Court liberalism as too backward-looking to galvanize young progressives today.

But the "first real Ukrainian president", as Mr Yushchenko called himself, was too backward-looking.Instead of governing, he tried to boost national consciousness by promoting the Ukrainian language and trying to revise history.

But Popworld was both too ahead of its time (the site would have made more sense five years later) and too backward-looking (the print title folded at the start of 2004).

After years of condescension from modern-minded art-lovers who treated their disturbing visions as too quirky, too backward-looking or simply too provincial to be of lasting interest, Spencer and Lowry are finally being accepted as more than local oddities or British one-shots.