But this backwardness is not coming from old generation necessarily. From Wordnik.com. [p2pnet to charge for access …] Reference
To think that in year 2010 people still living America with such backwardness is mind boggling. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » Tea party leaders say they would ‘absolutely’ abolish Social Security.] Reference
The second major charge levelled against Europe, that of technological backwardness, is less serious. From Wordnik.com. [Eurosclerosis: Fact or Fiction?] Reference
I quote it in there, in which he says that the main reason he says for our backwardness in 1868 -- the word backwardness was still permitted. From Wordnik.com. [What Went Wrong?: Western Impact and Middle Eastern Response] Reference
A well delineated picture of conflict between widely disparate civilizations, with a reminder that backwardness is not the same as stupidity. From Wordnik.com. [Return to the Hyatt] Reference
Thus, these bodies project the notion of backwardness about Afghanistan in the international community. From Wordnik.com. [Ellaha Shaheen: False Identity of East in West] Reference
However, the backwardness of the productive forces persists, that is, the backwardness in work productivity. From Wordnik.com. [FIDEL CASTRO'S ADDRESS AT MAY DAY CEREMONIES] Reference
Africa should work side by side with institutions like the G8 to catch up on its "backwardness". From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
It is one in which the burqa symbolizes the domination of Muslim men over their women, and the general "backwardness" of the Islamic faith. From Wordnik.com. [Anushay Hossain: Making The Burqa Sexy: A New Frontier In Advertising?] Reference
To pursue a mass approach to organisation, does not mean folding our arms and moaning about the 'backwardness' of this or that sector of the people. From Wordnik.com. [Contents:] Reference
In debate on the Budget he said on Monday Mr Pravin Gordhan (ANC) warned sarcastically that the ANC would implement the RDP despite the NP's "backwardness". From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
The boy was going to school and making amends for his "backwardness" by diligence and proficiency. From Wordnik.com. [Marion Harland's autobiography : the story of a long life,] Reference
She is in apprehension of an amourousness which I despair of displaying; I am ashamed of a backwardness which is her only comfort. From Wordnik.com. [The King's Mirror] Reference
China's government genuinely believes its policies are helping transform Tibet from what officials say was a state of "backwardness". From Wordnik.com. [Phayul Latest News] Reference
"You speak, sir, of the 'backwardness' of persons to appear in defence of Miss Monk's book. From Wordnik.com. [Awful Disclosures Containing, Also, Many Incidents Never before Published] Reference
In matters spiritual there was also a corresponding backwardness. From Wordnik.com. [Records of Woodhall Spa and Neighbourhood Historical, Anecdotal, Physiographical, and Archaeological, with Other Matter] Reference
She was concerned about my social backwardness, and she had a point. From Wordnik.com. [Why grade-skipping should be back in fashion] Reference
Unless poverty and backwardness are addressed, democracy is worthless. From Wordnik.com. [Bombs Away] Reference
I was not prepared for the essay lamenting Turkey's backwardness in ... wine drinking. From Wordnik.com. [The Fears Of A Muslim Ally] Reference
Would he be satisfied with the backwardness that renders us a burden on other nations?. From Wordnik.com. [Islam's Encounters With America] Reference
A People's CarRatan's fingerprints are clearest at Tata Motors, once a symbol of India's backwardness. From Wordnik.com. [A New Kind of Company] Reference
Legal uncertainty, economic backwardness, organized crime, political intolerance and floods of immigrants. From Wordnik.com. [Open the Doors] Reference
Regular Paris-to-London service should begin in September and will quickly spotlight British backwardness. From Wordnik.com. [Why Do Brits Hate The Chunnel?] Reference
In justice, however, to our backwardness in receiving any new spiritual truth, there are some explanations. From Wordnik.com. [Love's Final Victory] Reference
If hatred, backwardness, authoritarianism are the values taught, it will lead to divisiveness and bloodshed. From Wordnik.com. [Wayne Besen: Why We Are Losing the 'War On Terrorism'] Reference
Arab regimes condemned the UNDP as a Washington stooge for its criticism of human-rights abuses and backwardness. From Wordnik.com. [Periscope] Reference
His backwardness in the university hath set him thus forward; for had he not truanted there, he had not been so hasty a divine. From Wordnik.com. [Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters] Reference
Thomas was rescued from the backwardness of Pin Point, Ga., by a Roman Catholic school run by white nuns for poor black children. From Wordnik.com. [Where Does He Stand?] Reference
Britain, like the U.S. and every other developed nation, initially rose from agricultural backwardness by way of mercantilism, the opposite of free trade. From Wordnik.com. [Ian Fletcher: America Aping Britain's Historic Decline Through Free Trade] Reference
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