But Patrick, for all his economic backwardness, has a soul.

This unwise policy very largely accounts for the economic backwardness of Mexico, Peru, and other Spanish- American countries at the present day.

For decades, also, Unionists could point to Irish economic backwardness and their cultural and religious differences as making a fit between the two impossible.

The sheer human heft of its billion-plus population, along with economic backwardness that left plenty of scope for improvement, made it seem nearly inevitable.

Refrain from politically incorrect concepts like underdevelopment or economic backwardness (these are throwbacks to the 1960s -and what did they know then anyway?).

Economic backwardness was taken as holy simplicity; ignoble, craven subservience as piety.