Backwardness

His removal comes after Francis spoke of the "backwardness" of some US Catholic church leaders.

It reveals the backwardness of our politicians and exposes our ignorance of the true meaning of democracy.

Moreover, the current political, social, and economic backwardness of most Middle Eastern states renders them incapable of challenging the West militarily––as Israel has shown in three victorious defensive wars against larger coalitions of Muslim states.

Speaking at the second OBC Elgar rally at Hingoli, Bhujbal said, “I want to tell the state Backward Classes Commission (BCC) that survey of Maratha community alone cannot be done to prove its social backwardness.

The backwardness and poverty that have become the character of Nigeria are the manifestations of Igbophobia or the orchestrated marginalization and alienation of the Igbo from the centres of power.

The dominant narrative presented is one of backwardness, bigotry and decline.

Discarding explanations like cultural backwardness or ideology, Kalyvas argues that the incentive for this violence is created by the military characteristics of civil war, where the population is the battlefield.

The controversial book furthered the popular conservative argument that cultural backwardness was the root cause of American poverty.

A month ago, the important literary magazine Al Jadid published a long interview with the Egyptian author, thinker and journalist Gaber Asfour on “the culture of backwardness,” part of a title of a book he published in 2008.

Besides, the issue of providing reservations in educational institutions and government employment to address backwardness of minorities, as highlighted by Sachar Committee, finds no mention this time.

In general this rising pressure was of a liberal democratic character, reflecting its petty bourgeois origins and exasperation at China’s relative international isolation and backwardness.

In some projects funded by the Government of India, “backwardness” at the district level was also used as a criteria.

Rooting out the backwardness from Spanish state institutions like the judiciary can only be envisaged on the basis of a fundamental break with capitalism and a struggle for socialism.

The report of the committee placed Muslims below scheduled castes and tribes in backwardness.

Beyond understanding the problems, they must also have a clear-eyed view of what it takes to move Nigerian out of poverty and backwardness and onto the path of prosperity and growth.

Its good relations with other countries gave it a room not only to build its positive image but is also subservient to get it out of poverty and backwardness through a rapid development that squashed the dire poverty.

Sometimes traditional society harms us, hinders our progress in life, prevents us from pursuing happiness replacing it with misery, and imposes backwardness and disability.

The Census figures suggest that Muslims have consistently slided into backwardness and poverty since independence.

The isolation of the revolution in conditions of extreme backwardness, meant the exhaustion of the most advanced sections of the working class, and pulled the state inexorably towards bureaucratic deformation.

The powerful culture industries of this city have done little to undermine the idea that the real Los Angeles — the place where its swarthy masses live — is a place of violence, fear and backwardness.