The definition of a backward country is one where you can't get green tea.
Having lived in the 1940s and 1950s, just after the defeated Japanese left a poverty stricken Singapore, I have seen the struggles during the development of my then backward country to a modern metropolis.
Most of the time I was trying to play like Chuck Berry or Jimmy Reed, electric stuff, then I sort of worked backward into country blues.
Blocking law enforcement from collecting DNA from people arrested for violent crimes would be an enormous step backward in our country's fight against sexual violence.
We are not going to let this country fall backward -- not now, not with so much at stake.
WHITEHOUSE: Remarks by the President at a Campaign Event -- Fairfax, VA
Some critics said that bullfighting flourished in Spain because the country was backward under General Franco, the Spanish dictator until his death in 1975.
Such a policy seems to be taking this country 100 steps backward in time.
When the number of new jobs being created is less than the number of new entrants into the work force each month, the country is going backward.
Russia, they say, is too big and too backward to be governed exactly like a western country.
He is very popular in the west of the country, but goes down less well is the more backward, rural regions of eastern Turkey.
Lawfare's effectiveness lies in the fact that ours is a country so strongly committed to the rule of law that it will often bend over backward to appease charges of illegality - however specious - to the detriment of its own interests.
Now that Saddam Hussein has once again turned his pathetically impoverished country into a kitchen for poisons and a stage for his grandiosity, it is time to look backward and up.
Back then, anyone could tell that Japan was a backward, resource-poor nation going nowhere - and Brazil, with its all its natural wealth, was the country of the future.
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