As a result, they included criticism of Russia's intellectual isolation and social backwardness.

Alcoholism is a main reason for social backwardness.

Then, as now, fears about regional instability, economic stagnation, and social backwardness abounded.

Relating social backwardness of a class to its low position in the traditional caste hierarchy of Indian society;

Despite their classification as one of Kerala's "backward" communities, in general their social backwardness remains unnoticed.

His plays expressed didactic, moralistic themes promoting modernization, including literacy, the emancipation of women and opposition to social backwardness.

The combined impact of civil strife and foreign interventions had doomed Honduras to a position of relative economic and social backwardness throughout the nineteenth century.

Pirenne, as a liberal, could only explain the defeat of the Vonckists by playing up the economic and social backwardness of the Austrian Netherlands.

PSF believes that science placed before humanity tools which transform society, tools that banish poverty, disease and social backwardness.

Kurdish Prime Minister Barham Saleh said his government was keen to address the "social backwardness" of honor killings, which he described as an embarrassment.

It showed 19th-century Russia's technological, economic and social backwardness, but it did not convince Alexander II of the viability of capitalism or democratic institutions.

of Uttar Pradesh in regard to social backwardness of Khagi Caste.

The burden of Russia's social backwardness could not be thrown off as quickly as the threat of political counterrevolution had been by the end of the Civil War.

But boosters of caste politics claim that it is not economic deprivation but the social backwardness from which these castes have historically suffered that makes caste reservations necessary.

The elected leaders of the liberal democracies, in turn, viewed such gaudy regalia as the generals sported with scorn and disapproval: what miserable social backwardness enabled these caudillos to grab power?

But he said the book he considered “most solid” is “Capitalism and Slavery in Southern Brazil,” an examination of how racially based servitude contributed directly to Brazil’s economic and social backwardness.

In his works written after 1920 he continued with his criticism of patriarchal norms, social backwardness, and despotism of the ruling class, and describes the expectations of people from the newly established political system.

The quota for each category will be fixed based on economic and social backwardness of the applicant and after being cleared by the respective Taluk Land Assignment Committees [TLAC].

Her decline to the position she now occupied, that of a helpless victim-State, was the product of many factors - economic and social backwardness, long frontiers unprotected by natural obstacles to invasion, religious divisions and the aggression of her neighbours.

The bumiputera equity requirement was part of a policy directive introduced in 1971 by Mr Najib's father, Abdul Razak, Malaysia's second prime minister, and was intended to reduce the economic and social backwardness of the Malay majority.

We believe that the fight against imbalances, against economic and social backwardness is largely based on economic development founded on entrepreneurial and private initiative and I therefore propose that particular attention be paid to this and that we follow recommendation no. 7.

King Hussein said that instead of dwelling on the past, Arab countries should address major ills in their societies, including "cumulative problems of social backwardness," undoubtedly a jab at Saudi Arabia and the traditional societies of Kuwait and Qatar.

If the economic and social backwardness of the Russian metropolis itself is often invoked to justify the reforms of Peter the Great or the 1917 Revolution, the state of affairs in its vast eastern colony was inevitably much worse in many respects.

1992 Indra Sawhney v Union of India judgment laid down the limits of the state's powers: it upheld the ceiling of 50 per cent quotas, emphasized the concept of "social backwardness", and prescribed 11 indicators to ascertain backwardness.

Latin America is also wrestling with huge problems, however, which include poverty, social inequality, inequality of opportunity, social backwardness, the suffering of the continent’s Indian population, the lack of infrastructure, the power of the drug cartels, gangs of demoralised young people and apathy.