Sentence examples for truly backward from inspiring English sources

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In a 2006 case, the court laid down three criteria that governments must establish to justify quotas: the groups in question must be truly "backward," or disadvantaged; data must show that they are underrepresented in government jobs; and the proposed quota must not make the government less efficient.

Another blow to the reservations system came from the country's highest court in 2006, when it set three criteria for quotas in government jobs: the groups in question must be truly "backward," or disadvantaged; data must show that they are underrepresented in government jobs; and the proposed quota mustn't make the government less efficient.

We would be subjected to ridicule and deemed truly backward.

"I've been warning for weeks that while, of course, we should be alarmed about the prospects of Ed Miliband dancing to the tune of Alex Salmond, we should be equally alarmed at the prospect of a hapless David Cameron, minority Conservative administration, dancing to the tune of Nigel Farage, the right wing of his own party and some of these truly, truly, backward looking views from the DUP".

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It might also strengthen the hand of the truly backward-looking minority in the country that would prefer the customs union with Russia to the prosperity of a free trade agreement with the E.U.

Nick Clegg, the Lib Dem leader, told the BBC that the incident "lifted the lid" on the party, and that he had been warning for "weeks" that, just as the idea of Mr Miliband "dancing to the tune" of the SNP was alarming, so too was the prospect of Mr Cameron answering to UKIP, the right-wingers in his party, and some of these "truly, truly, backward-looking views from the DUP".

Today, incentives are truly arse-backward.

Because while the Middle East's Great Leap Backward truly breaks your heart, its effects can be contained.

The thing is that hits can be so unpredictable that it's hard to say looking backward who was truly responsible for making a game successful and what a fair revenue split should be.

Each and every film was riveting, but I really moved by Hansal Mehta's Aligarh, shocked by Help Us Find Sunil Tripathi about the suspect in the Boston Bombing, moved to tears by The Backward Class, and truly tickled by I Say Bhallaji, Dhanak - and Miss India America.

A little backward, really.

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