The international port of Tangier in those years, in comparison, seems like a provincial backwater.
The house is on a lake in central Mississippi near the backwater-flooded Yazoo River.
By comparison, Hyderabad, the former home of the nawabs (Indian princes), is a backwater.
The Senate, no longer a fount of ideas, became a backwater of the U.S. government.
Why are people moving to what the media tends to see as a backwater?
The Germans will take a few hundred men north to the stable backwater of Kunduz.
High-yield does not mean necessarily putting money with a rinky-dink company stuck in Backwater, America.
But making the idea work in Switzerland, currently a bancassurance backwater, will not be easy.
Moreover, business journalism itself was a backwater, a place where publications dumped their drunks and burned-out sportswriters.
Modern Georgia is a far cry from the ill-run backwater that Mr Saakashvili took over in 2003.
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In its 700-odd years of recorded history, the city has been both capital city and provincial backwater.
If this decision had not been made, Heathrow would have become a backwater to some other regional hub.
Crossed cultures and cross-dressing meet in this blissfully funny romance and odd-couple movie, set in a Canadian backwater.
For many years, it was a sleepy backwater devoted to keeping incumbents safe.
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Consider: Over the last 20 years China has boomed, taking it from a backwater to the world's second-biggest economy.
As a channel (really, four channels) for jocks and junkies, ESPN brings an informed sophistication to the backwater bowls.
The spreadsheet category has really been a backwater for the past 20 years.
The backwater levee was being "armored" by a heavy plastic coating to prevent it from washing out, he said.
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Ireland, for example, went from an economic backwater to becoming the Celtic Tiger.
Section 457 deferred compensation plans offered to governmental employees are an investment backwater.
Service has always been a backwater, almost a dumping ground for many corporates.
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These facilities were also absent when California first started its journey from west coast backwater to America's leading economy.
Singapore, a city-state with just over five million people, was an economic backwater when it became fully independent in 1965.
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One place considered a potential investment opportunity is Vladivostok, Russia's largest port city, seen as a commercial backwater for decades.
Ten years ago Sweetwater was a dusty backwater best known for having the world's largest rattlesnake round-up (see article).
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The Valley used to be an agricultural backwater, where children would rise with their parents and work the fields until dusk.
Tax-crushed Western Europe is rushing ahead with exactions for the Net, a mind-set that is making the region an economic backwater.
For years Europe has been an economic backwater because of excessive taxes and regulations, onerous labor laws and ludicrously lavish welfare benefits.
But this is the backwater of Japan, not an epicenter of commerce.
But in fact he had left West Bengal an economic backwater, largely shunned by foreign investors and a byword for obstreperous unionism.
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