Examples of backwardness

• His button-front white shirt, blue jeans, and leather shoes hardly seemed the picture of backwardness.

• Instead of disparaging small farmers as a symbol of backwardness, we should value their knowledge and recognize modern industrial farms are unsustainable.

• Lack of railway development matched the area’s comparative economic backwardness.

• By refusing to allow a school and condoning their excessive consumption of alcohol and coca, she considered the hacendado directly responsible for perpetuating backwardness.

• He blamed official cor ruption, ignorance, and foreign intrigue for the backwardness of his homeland.

• Such pottery does not represent cultural "backwardness" or a tradition separate from that of core areas.

• He considers that miners have a history of educational backwardness, but this did not hinder progression at work.

• Difficulties in auditory organization as a possible cause of reading backwardness.