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"backwardness" Definitions
  1. the state of having made less progress than normal

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"Opening brings progress while closure leads to backwardness," Xi said.
Openness brings progress while seclusion leads to backwardness, he declared.
Paris was not built on backwardness or barbarism or misogyny.
Hoping for the best won't rescue nations from political backwardness.
We live on the brink of backwardness at every moment.
The industry's backwardness can be seen in its thrall to paperwork.
He was driven by frustration: with Iran's backwardness, isolation and outsiders' bullying.
Chinese travellers abroad often grumble about other countries' backwardness in electronic payments.
I don't think tradition or any kind of backwardness should stop women.
But this pessimism is counterproductive and simply empowers the forces of backwardness.
"Administering sanctions against ourselves from the modern world will cause backwardness," he wrote.
The Made in China 2025 plan can be read as a confession of backwardness.
Gorgeous, albeit skewed, depictions of "other" cultures meant to justify colonialism with their backwardness.
The mad rush to develop serves only to confirm our comical, almost antediluvian backwardness.
Basically, this whole situation is rooted in the shitty backwardness of the Dothraki culture.
Reuters's annual ranking of the world's most innovative universities in 2017 shows China's backwardness.
Our portrayals of North Korea are all too often caricatures of bellicosity and backwardness.
Furthermore, the memory of poverty and backwardness is ever-present in the collective consciousness.
MS: There's a bit of backwardness to it, which is exactly what keeps it going.
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There can be advantages to economic backwardness, as Alexander Gerschenkron, a Ukrainian-American economist, once argued.
"Playing with uncontrolled street politics is to push Hong Kong to backwardness and disturbance," it said.
That the party represents so many Peruvians is in part an indictment of the country's educational backwardness.
And Indian courts anyway blocked the move, arguing that Jats do not meet the criteria for backwardness.
"In the past we did have ghosts - the ghosts of ignorance, backwardness and poverty," Xi told her.
But to her nine-year-old eyes the mainland cities were grim spectacles of poverty and backwardness.
Looking beyond missiles, Sanger notes that North Korea's backwardness generally makes it an unpromising target for cyberwarfare.
"Gypsies," he says, are technically human, though as descendants of Ham they are cursed with servitude and backwardness.
Like supposed Muslim fanaticism, reuse of material was long seen as a sign of the backwardness of Egyptians.
Without the marketplace of free ideas, the attainment of knowledge is suppressed and ignorance, ineffectiveness and backwardness thrive.
In fact, in some ways, they're worse because they don't even acknowledge the backwardness or hypocrisy of their actions.
Afghans are still grateful to America for ending Taliban rule, and the terror, poverty and backwardness that it entailed.
Insofar as most Chinese people think of Ningxia at all, it is as a place of deprivation and backwardness.
A skilled and thriving work force is one of our biggest weapons in the fight against terrorism and backwardness.
One result is backwardness: in one district the proportion of girls enrolled in school in 2011 was a shocking 1%.
Their primary objectives were industrialisation, the liquidation of illiteracy and superstition, and the mitigation of India's material poverty and backwardness.
It's about easing their economic backwardness, so that when you do eventually have unification, it's not so costly and chaotic.
Black-and-white photographs of some of the islanders contradict the vision the state encouraged of wretched poverty and backwardness.
"And of course this is not possible, but due to backwardness, they are incapable of understanding this reality," he said.
The insurgency has stifled economic development, they said; Article 370 was curtailing investment and migration, dooming the place to backwardness.
"Social status and economic power are so woven and fused into the caste system in Indian rural society that one may without hesitation, say that if poverty be the cause, caste is the primary index of social backwardness, so that social backwardness is often readily identifiable with reference to a person's caste," the judgment said.
It is the linchpin to solving the "Democratic People's Republic of Korea problem" — political backwardness, stunted economic performance, human rights violations.
In the '70s, Spanish was the language of poverty and backwardness in the eyes of some school administrators, and many others.
"Production and Domination: Afghanistan, 1747-1901" analyzes the nation's difficulty in building a centralized state in terms of its economic backwardness.
That said, all this windy and willful backwardness makes the NBA's current confluence between future and present look that much more appealing.
Deng said in the 1980s that China's backwardness and low productivity were in conflict with the growing material needs of its people.
Our business partners in Europe, for instance, may decide to penalize US companies with tariffs for the scientific backwardness of our leader.
Aiming to reverse economic backwardness in our southern states, the president-elect has proposed to subsidize agriculture and build new oil refineries.
If at least two of these four jobs do not go to a woman, this city will be shamed by its backwardness.
"He didn't look down on foreign places he visited and their 'quaintness/backwardness/insert-usual-derogatory adjective,'" the journalist Rania Abouzeid tweeted.
While the jihadis are few, there is a larger cancer within the world of Islam -- a cancer of backwardness and extremism and intolerance.
In the manic backwardness of right-wing politics circa 2017, government simply has no role in The Market that isn't by default contraindicated.
In words and pictures an iconography of Muslim women emerged—one that is used as an emblem of the general backwardness of Muslims.
"It is time to close this stage of backwardness and immorality" Yunes said, apparently referring to the outgoing PRI government of Javier Duarte.
Then it compares Azhong to China, saying it also rose from backwardness to power despite victimization, in the country's case by foreign forces.
To say "Nazi" is to imply backwardness — that this ideology is a throwback to a more ignorant and intolerant age in human history.
Here, Carlton takes this to Inception levels of layered ass-backwardness, by guilting Paltrow, for not coming forward sooner, because she has a daughter.
Like many filmmakers who emerged during this time, he decried social backwardness, championed labor rights, emphasized collectivity, and honored both popular and folk culture.
After the publication of "The True Story of Ah Q" in the early 1920s, Ah Q became a symbol of the backwardness of Chinese culture.
Kavanaugh's interpretation of it is exceptional in its backwardness, attempting to wring the complete opposite conclusion from what has been accepted for more than a decade.
This Europe has often looked down on the Poles, the Hungarians and the Czechs, let alone the Ukrainians or Estonians, for their supposed exoticism and backwardness.
Under Turkey's old hard-line secular system, the head scarf, or hijab, was seen as a symbol of backwardness and banned in government offices and schools.
Then, years later when you've experience and wisdom and analytical chops, impart your views on TV.  Trump's administration is chock full of backwardness on that front.
The outrage was immediate: Italians fumed that their government had humiliated itself, compromising national heritage and core national values to appease this foreigner's anti-Italian backwardness.
Throughout the years, I got used to Torun being mocked as a home of religious zealots and backwardness rather than the birthplace of Nicolaus Copernicus and gingerbread.
Most of all, it needs to work much harder to reverse the forces it has let loose in the Muslim world, of reaction, backwardness, intolerance, and hate.
The government locked up hundreds of thousands of them in what it called job training camps, touted as a way to escape poverty, backwardness and radical Islam.
They saw the solution to Latin American backwardness in immigration of white European indentured labourers, which initially prevented a rise in rural wages for former slaves and serfs.
Naseer is keenly aware that the works in this tight-knit exhibition could feed Americans' preconceptions about her home country: the backwardness of Islam, the oppression of women.
With searing clarity, "Red Famine" demonstrates the horrific consequences of a campaign to eradicate "backwardness" when undertaken by a regime in a state of war with its own people.
Deng Xiaoping's government was trying to improvise new solutions to the country's economic backwardness, which officials thought had exposed China to humiliation in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
But beyond this particular form of backwardness, other social work is being done in the cultural domain, and the Kamel Lazaar Foundation's Jaou project is playing a large part.
On Wednesday night at 10:30 I went to bed thankful that it was the last time I will ever have to watch that man's blithe, sneering backwardness at length.
The United States is the New World, the "land of the free," settled and founded by people who left a Europe full of political repression, economic backwardness and cultural decadence.
In a speech last month, he said the three years of anti-government protests that helped bring him to power in April showed that Ethiopians no longer tolerate "backwardness and injustice".
Veiling was treated as a symbol of Muslims' backwardness, and Frenchwomen's more flexible standards of dress were seen as a sign of French cultural superiority, views that helped to justify colonialism.
In 2006 perhaps her best-known song, "Caje Sukarije" ("Beautiful Girl"), played over the opening credits of "Borat", a mockumentary that distilled and exploited every cliché and stereotype of east European backwardness.
Whereas the fund is supposed to tackle acute crises—currency misalignments, capital flight and sudden shortages of dollars—the bank is charged with tackling chronic long-run problems of deprivation and backwardness.
In his first public speech since becoming central bank chief last week, Yi Gang told the China Development Forum in Beijing that opening up leads to progress, while closure points to backwardness.
Critics of Mr. Lewis said he treated Western imperialism, American interventions and Israeli displacement of Palestinians as consequences of the region's political failures and social backwardness rather than as contributors to them.
As the Native American scholar Joanne Barker has written, Marshall's definition is inextricable from "backwardness": Tribes are the unruly, violent social groups that preceded American civilization, and were rightfully subdued by it.
In his first public speech since becoming central bank chief last week, Yi Gang told the China Development Forum in Beijing that opening up leads to progress while closure points to backwardness.
Mr Jiang's main concern was a television series broadcast in 1988 called "River Elegy", which had portrayed China as a country weighed down by a long history of backwardness and inward-looking conservatism.
Although the backwardness of most North Korean infrastructure may make it an unpromising target for others to attack, thanks to a crash hacker-training program it is now in the cyberwarfare big leagues.
Her presence on the Lahore High Court and later as the first woman president of the Supreme Court Bar Association, encouraged liberal lawyers and outraged conservatives, whom she mocked for their backwardness and beards.
When Hillary Clinton bragged this year that in her failed 2016 presidential bid she "won the places that represent two thirds of America's Gross Domestic product," voters see the backwardness of her political instincts.
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.
The backwardness of the T.V.A. on this issue is not just a national embarrassment; it is a betrayal of the agency's own progressive legacy as one of the signature creations of the New Deal.
"It is a simple matter of justice that America, in dealing creatively with the task of raising the Negro from backwardness, should also be rescuing a large stratum of the forgotten white poor," he wrote.
According to North Korea expert Andrei Lankov, such programs played a substantial role in exposing Eastern Europeans to the backwardness of their living conditions and drove Soviet elites like Mikhail Gorbachev to institute sweeping reforms.
Soderbergh, who grew up in Virginia and Louisiana, knows exactly how the iconography of the white South has been wielded — and the expectations (of backwardness, of trashiness) that audiences bring to a film that employs it.
His principal character is so full of yearning for his lost Constantinople, and so committed to reminding us of the relative backwardness of the British Isles, that one begins to question his lack of intellectual curiosity.
"Openness leads to progress and closure points to backwardness," Yi told a news conference on the sidelines of the annual parliament on March 9, when asked about the central bank's ongoing efforts to push financial opening.
"Opening up leads to progress while closure points to backwardness," Yi told the China Development Forum in Beijing in a wide-ranging speech, his first at a public event since becoming the central bank's chief last week.
Despite escalating sanctions and the country's technological backwardness, North Korea appears to have gotten past a rocky beginning with its nuclear tests, and enjoyed a burst of progress in its missile program over the last two years.
" Regarding the systemic exploitation of Black bodies in photography, Mason offered, "These images create false knowledge about backwardness, barbarity, or sensuality of their subjects and continue to be part and parcel of the visual culture of white supremacy.
Speaking at a separate forum in Beijing, Wang Zhaoxing, a vice chairman of China's banking and insurance regulator, said the last four decades of the country's economic reforms have shown that "openness brings progress, shutting off brings backwardness".
Much as many Muslims heartily agree that change is long overdue, suspicions linger that the BJP's aim is less to generate reform than to spark inevitable protests by Muslim conservatives, so uniting Hindus in opposition to Muslim "backwardness".
So when he says, "Muslim immigrants bring their backwardness to Europe," when he says that, "The left are okay with white women being raped by Muslim immigrants," which is what he said in 2016, that's an outrageous statement.
If we refuse to recognize and respect someone else's humanity -- even in the thick of the fight -- we will be consumed by the same hate and backwardness that King and those who strive to follow his example oppose.
When experts try to explain that in the 14th century, Islamic civilization was the world's most advanced, or that the Quran was once read as a liberal and progressive document, they're not trying to deny the realities of backwardness today.
When Khrushchev took office, he recognized that Russia could not compete militarily with the United States, and if Russia hoped to escape its economic backwardness and the devastating effect of the war, the arms race would have to be reversed.
But it also connotes backwardness, and thus you hear nasty comments about the "dirty" Kurds or the "dirty" Arabs — that is, the Middle Eastern peoples whom the Turks imagine they left behind when Ataturk came along and pushed them westward.
At about the same time, Oleg, disillusioned by his country's scientific backwardness and clued in to the bioweapons operation by his rezidentura squeeze, Tatiana (who wants him to come along to her new posting in Africa), paid Stan a visit.
Instant person-to-person payment is something that people in many other countries have been able to do for years, and the absence of the service in the United States has been a marker of the relative backwardness of American banks.
She allows us to accept ourselves just the way we are—uninformed, uninterested, and concerned only with things that concern us—even as we give a speech to our mums about the backwardness of family values and the importance of multiculturalism.
As the Democratic Party starts the hard work of preparing to take on Trump in 2020, lamenting the election as an indictment of women, or as evidence of America's pathological backwardness, will perpetuate an incomplete idea of what Clinton and her campaign represented.
" She shuts the blinds, cranks up the air-conditioning, and buries herself in literature in an effort to avoid the deprivation around her, but "all the time I know myself to be on the back of this great animal of poverty and backwardness.
This has mostly been an enervating and unsatisfying season, a year of glaring problems and multiple backwardness and righteous denial; this could be said of most recent NFL seasons, although there has been something flat and fun-free about this one even by those standards.
Even though he insists he is not carelessly violent like Tom or Daisy, the young understand that Nick is as much a product of his social class as Tom, that its backwardness and insularity mark him as much as they do Tom and Daisy.
He claims the Klan case, which features prominently in his stump speech everywhere, also plays well among whites, as a token of his law-and-order credentials and determination to move Alabama beyond the reputation for backwardness and bigotry that his Republican opponent encapsulates.
Few are extended toward religious fundamentalists, of any kind, who reach the radar of the urbane, "Pod Save America" class only when stories appear confirming existing impressions of backwardness — the hordes of children delivered into the world whom families refuse to vaccinate and keep semiliterate.
That wasn't enough to impress some Chinese internet users who took to social media to crack jokes about the relative poverty and backwardness of their awkward neighbor, the diesel locomotive lent to Kim a stark contrast to the network of high speed trains in China.
"I have a tremendous amount of passion for what happens in L.A., and for the last few years I have become increasingly more uneasy seeing the backwardness of the criminal justice system in L.A.," Mr. Gascon said in an interview last week, before he announced his candidacy.
China's ruling Communist Party has said in a surge of upbeat propaganda that a sprawling network of camps in the Xinjiang region is providing job training and putting detainees on production lines for their own good, offering an escape from poverty, backwardness and the temptations of radical Islam.
When Salazar's dictatorship was finally overturned by a relatively bloodless military coup, the so-called Carnation Revolution, on April 25, 1974, Portugal was a country characterised by incredible social and political backwardness, mired in an imperial power struggle in its attempt to cope with large colonial holdings in southern Africa.
"They want to take back young, faithful and developed Iran to 50 years ago, and of course this is not possible, but due to backwardness, they are incapable of understanding this reality, and for this reason they have made a miscalculation and suffered, and will suffer successive defeats at the hands of the Iranian nation," he said.
Adopting political positions against globalization, similar to President Trump, they preach that the economic backwardness of Italy has its roots in the immensely degraded political culture of the country's elite, which, in the last few decades, has negotiated and signed countless international agreements and treaties without ever considering the real economic interest of the country and without any meaningful planning of the nation's future.

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