Sentences with 'backwardness'

Example sentences and phrases with the word backwardness and other words derived from it.

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« What is the alternative, then: to fossilise in the backwardness or to be an eternal student? Is there a remedy for a doctor to keep up to date? Yes, and it is electronic: the computer. »
« Many Russian elites believed that one of the reasons Russia had lost the war was its backwardness, a backwardness that Tsar Alexander II and many others believed could not be mitigated by the serfdom that hindered the possibility of progress. »
« In turn, they experienced the West first-hand when Russian armies fought against Napoleon's forces and then during the occupation of France. There, the sheer backwardness of Russia contrasted with the dynamism and vitality they discovered in French society (especially in Paris itself). »
« The greatest of European powers in the 16th century, Spain had long since sunk into obscurity, commercial weakness and backwardness. Its society in 1920 was much the same as it had been a century earlier: most of the country was populated by poor farmers and rural labourers, and an alliance of the army, the Catholic Church and old noble families still controlled the government in Madrid. »

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