backwardness

How To Use backwardness In A Sentence

• This backwardness with respect to the churches of the continental and insular west was nevertheless overcome by means of a form of cultural evolution.
• This "hard-hitting" talk is simply an apology for ignorance and backwardness.
• European conquest and the rights of indigenous peoples exemplify the moral backwardness of international society.
• No less sincerely did they consider the Soviet regime to be a product of the backwardness and barbarousness of Russian conditions.
• The intended effect is the same - to suffocate all independent and critical thinking through the non-stop promotion of irrationalism, backwardness and lies.
• Concerned patriots turned their attention to exposing the poverty and backwardness of the majority—those for whom the word Italia, if it meant anything at all, meant taxes on basic foodstuffs, conscription, and heavy-handed policing. Delizia!
• Scotland could become an international byword for backwardness, intolerance and prejudice if that's what its elected representatives want.
• Cultural backwardness is rife in America, but nowhere so pervasively as in small cities and towns.
• Tackling climate change should not sacrifice development, or continue poverty and backwardness.
• The ‘Eastern war’, as the Crimean war was known in Russia, showed the backwardness of the Russian army, still equipped with smooth-bore muskets, compared with the French and British who had the new Minié rifle.