Sentence examples for very backward from inspiring English sources

On the business front, the country remains very backward.

"We are in a very backward village," she explained.

"Tibet materially is very, very backward," he said.

Oddly, Japan is very advanced in the former and very backward in the latter.

"She was very backward and Sir Henry didn't want to run her at two or three.

Like the Maasai [community] still have female genital mutilation (FGM) – it is very backward and dangerous.

Columnists chimed in with support, but in this week's New Republic, Sean Wilentz, a historian at Princeton, argues that in the end, Adams' conception of politics was very backward-looking because he failed to understand the new egalitarianism of America as fully as Jefferson and Madison understood it.

It has been very clearly shown that the focus of the SOC scale is not suitable for the capture of current, clinically relevant feeling and state of coherence for clinical questions in internal oncological patients, because of the very backward-looking, general style of questions and the face validity [ 24].

Education is very much backward.

He said one reason he advocated that Tibet remain part of China is that "we are materially very much backward".

A lot of what we hear from internet pundits is that everyone should be building their own reading lists, everyone should be on the lookout for interesting stories themselves, I think that logic is very regressive, backward, anti-democratic and stupid.