The other thing that makes it seem like a bit of a backwater is that there were not many attractions to go to. From Wordnik.com. [April 18th, 2007] Reference
The Band’s Visit – An Egyptian band gets lost in backwater Israel. From Wordnik.com. [WEEKEND PREVIEW] Reference
The Mountain State shouldn't be known as a backwater where prejudice hangs on from the past. From Wordnik.com. Reference
I'm from Kansas, what many would also call a backwater state, as was Bill Clinton being governor of Arkansas. From Wordnik.com. [J.R. McMillan: Voters In Ohio Solidify Their Opinions Of Palin, Biden] Reference
So far we've seen Welsh-speakers being called backwater-people, primitive, useless, inferior and even drunken. From Wordnik.com. [Labour: no presence at the Eisteddfod] Reference
I can't even imagine what those "backwater" voters think. From Wordnik.com. [Obama Doesn't "Take Fox On," After All] Reference
Bishop Ruiz was a tiny man from a "backwater" state in Mexico. From Wordnik.com. [Rose Marie Berger: Remembering Samuel Ruiz -- The Little Bishop Who Roared] Reference
And I'll tell my cousin at Pulte that Phoenix is "backwater" too. From Wordnik.com. [A breather (Jack Bog's Blog)] Reference
I thought he looked awful, but neither of us is a "backwater" voter, are we?. From Wordnik.com. [Obama Doesn't "Take Fox On," After All] Reference
In a place like Lesotho, SecState thought, which was a place to make "backwater" seem a compliment. From Wordnik.com. [The Bear and the Dragon]
You see, this is the difference between the third world backwater which is Texas, and the Civilized World to which it does not belong. From Wordnik.com. [Tallulah Morehead: Big Brother 12 : Mothra, the Penguin, and the Succubus.] Reference
You see, this is the difference between the third world backwater which is. From Wordnik.com. [The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com] Reference
Besides your obvious prejudging of the author, and your characterization of Humboldt County as a 'backwater' I must agree. From Wordnik.com. Reference
100 million security contract in Afghanistan to XE aka backwater. From Wordnik.com. [The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com] Reference
Burma, now calling itself Myanmar, is more of a backwater than ever. From Wordnik.com. [Burma's Fearless 'Splinter Of Glass'] Reference
Wall Street was a backwater in the '40s,' 50s, '60s and' 70s, and it will be again. From Wordnik.com. [Marry a Farmer] Reference
Soon it will be five years since war broke out again in Europe's Chechen backwater. From Wordnik.com. [First Person: Children Of The War] Reference
Palin says she is embarrassed by Alaska's national reputation as a corrupt backwater. From Wordnik.com. [McCain’s Mrs. Right] Reference
When he was growing up, in the late 1950s, Ibb was still very much a rural backwater. From Wordnik.com. [The Reeducation of Abu Jandal] Reference
He became a meteorologist back in the 1960s, when it was a backwater among the sciences. From Wordnik.com. [The Truth About Global Warming] Reference
Traditionally something of a backwater in the computer world, BBSes are coming into their own. From Wordnik.com. [Online On A Shoestring] Reference
For the past three seasons Martinez has toiled in hockey-paradise, baseball-backwater Montreal. From Wordnik.com. ['Passion In Every Pitch'] Reference
Financial futures became a spectacular success, turning the Merc from a backwater to a trendsetter. From Wordnik.com. [How Chicago Lost The Future] Reference
These are precisely the kinds of positions that kept India a poor and marginal backwater for many years. From Wordnik.com. [A Red Scare In Delhi] Reference
Today Burma is one of Asia's poorest nations, a backwater that seems to have changed little since the 1950s. From Wordnik.com. [Burma: No Win For Ne Win] Reference
"The sign's driven everyone away," the mandolin player says, looking out over the marshy backwater behind us. From Wordnik.com. [Tim Dowling: Wet, wet… And wet] Reference
There, for the next five weeks, he led an indolent life, mainly in the then backwater town of Puerto Vallarta. From Wordnik.com. [The Truth About Memphis] Reference
How, I wondered, had the backwater I knew as a kid become India's No. 1 tourist destination, above the Taj Mahal?. From Wordnik.com. [LETTER FROM INDIA: RAJAH FOR A DAY] Reference
But the centerpiece of the effort is the expansion of the former backwater AOL. com page to a full-fledged portal. From Wordnik.com. [AOL'S SOLUTION: A PORTAL IN A STORM] Reference
But after an amazing 29 years at the helm Friedman is retiring this month to the relative backwater of New York City. From Wordnik.com. [Say Goodbye, Mister Hip] Reference
As for Dublin, the once provincial backwater is now as richly cosmopolitan as any European capital -- and as affluent. From Wordnik.com. [Sunset on the Liffey?] Reference
ExxonMobil's answer is, in essence, that it still needs some assurance of stability to work in a backwater like Sakhalin. From Wordnik.com. [Russia's Latest Oil Gusher] Reference
Working on human reproduction was a backwater of developmental biology; there weren't that many people working in this field. From Wordnik.com. [Leading the Way] Reference
It was always a backwater of finance and was taken care of by people at the clearinghouses and in the back offices of the banks. From Wordnik.com. [Wallace Turbeville: The Murky Realm of (Derivatives) Clearing] Reference
Amazing to consider that less than a decade ago, search was a backwater, deemed not very interesting and certainly not very profitable. From Wordnik.com. [ALL EYES ON GOOGLE] Reference
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