Backward
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They are unable to turn around, lie down with their legs fully extended, or move more than a step forward or
backward.
Are we marching forward technologically only to march
backward
socially?
They look
backward
because they are afraid to look ahead.
But this argument has it
backward.
Yet China allows only 38 foreign films into the country each year, inducing filmmakers to bend over
backward
to please the censors.
Traditionally, a large majority of the budget has gone either on agriculture or on the development of
backward
regions.
The significant changes since independence in the social composition of India’s ruling class, both in politics and in the bureaucracy – with leaders from the formerly “untouchable” and
backward
castes elected to high office – have vindicated democracy in practice.
Then there is the Bay of Bengal, where Chinese infrastructure investment is set to transform the
backward
Myanmar seaside town of Kyaukpyu and the surrounding region by tapping offshore gas fields and constructing a pipeline to Yunnan Province in southern China.
Here is one very critical example: there was no European country in the recent crisis over Kosovo which could have prevailed militarily on its own against Serbia, a country of ten million people that is rather poor and
backward.
Egypt’s government, by banning the Muslim Brotherhood, has taken the country
backward
since the military coup that overthrew President Mohamed Morsi last July.
A purchase will always look beneficial if one looks
backward
after the resource price has risen.
If the PDSR turns backward, the malady of our democratic reformers may prove to be fatal, both for Romania’s economy and for our hopes of ever joining Europe.
Yet, as China takes minuscule steps forward, Russia takes giant steps
backward.
Western capitalist societies, especially the United Kingdom and the United States, are currently in the process of spooling time
backward
to the pre-Victorian era, for the benefit of a small group of elites that excludes the working and middle classes who benefited most from the Victorians’ social, economic, and political reforms – let alone the poor.
But a sudden
backward
regression can lead to despair, which we feel today.
To return to the analogy, urban street gangs cannot seize political power, but they can certainly keep their neighborhoods dangerous, backward, and grim.
Most other cultivating and artisan castes, enjoying similar ritual ranks as the financially more successful group, occupied much lower economic positions, which resulted in an amazing degree of heterogeneity among
backward
castes.
- Better to be forward looking than
backward
looking, focusing on reducing the risk of new loans and ensuring that funds create new lending capacity.
To those who say that Ukraine is too
backward
for EU membership, I say: Let them, too, come to my country and see the mothers who stay late at night at work teaching their children to use their workplace computer.
But behind it all lurked his misrepresentation of xenophobia as patriotism and his rejection of immigrants, not as black or brown, but as culturally
backward.
Now many Russians have no idea where they are moving forward or
backward
or, indeed, if they are moving at all.
As we have seen time and again, Britain’s approach to the Brexit negotiations seems to be nothing more than a mix of wishful thinking, back-peddling, and plaintive requests that the EU bend over
backward
to help British leaders get out of the mess they have made.
Wouldn’t it be ironic if, as now seems likely, it is the supposedly
backward
EU that ended up leading the way in unlocking the Internet’s true economic potential?
But instead of taking that as an opportunity to lift up a
backward
state, he is opting for rank opportunism.
The remittances of Italian seasonal laborers in Argentina prevented
backward
rural villages in southern Italy from slipping into grinding poverty.
Later, these criteria were abandoned when NATO began to invite even the most
backward
and corrupt states to join.
Whereas much of culture seems to be looking backward, science is, by definition, in forward motion.
When US Commodore Matthew Perry blasted his way into Tokyo harbor in 1854, he found a weak, isolated, and technologically
backward
country.
Secondly, between 2006 and 2008, China shut down small thermal power-generation units with a total installed capacity of 34.21 GW, phased out 60.59 million tons of
backward
steel-making capacity, 43.47 million tons of iron-smelting capacity and 140 million tons of cement-production capacity.
Iran’s
backward
economy, a third of which is controlled by the Revolutionary Guard, is simply incapable of offering job opportunities to Iran’s growing cohorts of university graduates – the same segment of society that toppled the Shah.
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