Our fight has been against oppression, ignorance, unfairness, backwardness and all sorts of oppression and constraints.
Where it lapsed, in southern slaveholding colonies, a long period of economic backwardness resulted.
The histories of Russia and China are clear: All-powerful centers lead to stagnation and backwardness.
Mr Morales has a historic opportunity to use Bolivia's gas to overcome the country's backwardness.
The war in the south-east is due simply to Kurdish terror and economic backwardness.
In the authoritarian parts of East Asia, India's democracy is sometimes blamed for its relative backwardness.
Still less do they associate the country with chaos and backwardness, or with futile wartime heroics.
Even my backwardness and poverty only reflect a moral superiority, while my enemy's wealth proves his inhumanity.
He points out that, aside from some pockets of backwardness, the whole world has been getting much richer.
Besides showing colonizers the door, Asians also learned enough from them to liberate themselves from backwardness and poverty.
As it is, his probable victory risks setting his country on a path of chaotic conflict, government paralysis and continuing economic backwardness.
Yet the army also shares some of the blame for political backwardness.
Britain's backwardness may reinforce itself: if there is little demand for convergence, British consumers may get left behind in a converging world.
It wasn't mathematical backwardness that led geographers away from this approach but the conviction that to rely too heavily on maths was a dead end.
On the other hand, Mexico's governments have often seemed embarrassed by living Indians, whose backwardness is seen as a blot on the country's record of modernisation.
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If the will of the people called for high double-digit unemployment and economic backwardness, Europe's democratic governments could carry on supplying both quite happily, global market or no.
The terrorists want to return Iraq to backwardness and ignorance.
Second, there is curiously little emphasis on one of the notable features of the western region and a central cause of its backwardness the dominance of the state in the economy.
From Egypt to Saudi Arabia to Pakistan and Indonesia, the Arab and Muslim world has preferred poverty and economic backwardness to the prosperity that would come from engaging Israel.
The white paper adds no new conditions to existing ones for the possible use of force against Taiwan, and much of the white paper concentrates on China's military backwardness.
That was the period of rapid change that saw the province's French-speaking majority emerge from clergy-dominated backwardness the grande noirceur, the great darkness, as some called it and join the modern, secular world.
Mr Han's colleagues in the movement who harbour grander ambitions might remember that Sun Yat-sen opposed a regime that had been teetering for years, undermined by foreign invasion, economic backwardness and widespread rebellion.
Everyone knows that solving the Israeli-Palestinian conundrum would massively help the West and its fearful local friends in their efforts to help the forces of moderation and modernity overcome those of fanaticism and backwardness.
Accompanied by a posse of cabinet ministers, congressmen and corporate executives, the president touched down in Appalachia, the Mississippi Delta, the Pine Ridge Indian reservation in South Dakota and other black spots of economic backwardness.
At the end of his journey, seeking closure, he delivers a forceful argument: That it is not foreigners who make the Vietnamese feel shame about their poverty and backwardness, but rather their "lost brothers, " the Viet Kieu.
Not to excuse the decades of cruelty and backwardness under the Burmese junta, but maybe Myanmar, as its officials want it to be called, is just one more fractious place where seemingly only a strongman can keep the lid on.
We had to go to war, because the only sure way to ensure our national security is to drain the swamp of terrorism: to finally begin the process of wrenching the Arab world from a culture of backwardness, oppression and hatred toward the West.
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Indeed he strongly suggests that it is only due to a combination of corruption and backwardness that the Kremlin considers the US any sort of a threat at all: if only they could see the world as he sees it, the Russian general staff would see that the US is really quite a well-adjusted and reasonable country.
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