Backwater used in a sentence

Backwater in a sentence as a noun

Treat us like the backwater shithole that we, by our actions, are aspiring to be. Then maybe we'll change.

What if I break some obscure law in some backwater land unknown to the majority of the world? Do you think they have jurisdiction granted to them by your government?

In the current climate there is no reason for anyone to hole up in a backwater and not live life while they build their startup. > "Turnover means critical knowledge is walking out the door."

My little backwater hometown in Maine raged with ideas like this in the seventies, just before I entered the world. One or two families still live in buildings of similar feel.

> This isn't the first time Italy has reduced itself to the status of reactionary backwater by attacking scientists, Galileo being a case in point. There was no "Italy" at that point.

He isn't in the backwater of Afghanistan, he's in a democratic country with an independent judiciary. What makes you think he would be tortured, let alone killed?

Then I checked where the guy was from; Hungary is a backwater, and absolutely NOT representative of the EU, probably not even of the old eastern bloc. Three-years maternity leave?

OS X is a backwater as far as binary distribution is concerned and so developers have to use brew or macports. Every time you do "brew install blah" you have a 1/3 chance of downloading a project from source forge.

Singapore, a tiny piece of land with no resources, has been transformed over 50 years from a colonial backwater into a first world country. People once in poverty now live much more comfortable lives.

Ontario is a complete internet backwater by any measure.

Which means it's China since if it was some backwater country they'd just go ahead and say it, and if it was a western one they'd assume it was teenagers. But coming from China, it is the government doing it, so that's the only country that's taboo to name after being hacked.

That drone then obliterates an innocent child in some godforsaken backwater in Africa or somewhere. Does that legitimize their making a target of you?

Not in China, where centralized government is transforming the country from a backwater into a world power. Not in Singapore or Taiwan, where government investment into R&D turned poor countries into rich ones.

I'm not really sure what the moral of the story is because there are probably hundreds of similar backwater towns in the USA that would line up to offer the same benefits.

I'm astonished by some of the responses here, that could be summarised thusly: >"I work on workplace, in a modern western society, not some theocratic backwater, that monitors my web activity and would frown if I visited an article with the word porn in it. This on 2013.

The developing world, people living in backwater failed states, everyone. From the arid depths of Mali to the mountains of Tajikistan to the hustle and bustle of Mumbai to the slums of Manila, access to computers and to the internet will be nearly universal.

More likely than not, this is -- as the article surmises -- the result of some intern at a far-flung backwater of NBC's having been sloppy. Probably a Google image search for some query that incidentally returned Apple's artwork among the pile, followed by a "Hey, that looks cool," followed by an appropriation.

If you think about it in that light, it makes the \n achievements of the socialist bloc seem pretty \n impressive: a country like Russia managed to go \n from a backwater to a major world power with \n everyone working maybe on average four or five \n hours a day. \n\nThat is a very selective reading of history.

This isn't the first time Italy has reduced itself to the status of reactionary backwater by attacking scientists, Galileo being a case in point. In the wake of that travesty, Louis XIV didn't have a hard time convincing Cassini to abandon his post in Bologna and emigrate to France, where he could continue his work safely.

And as much as it annoys me, I think its more a symptom of how relatively little most of us and our ancestors have had to worry about in the US as much of our history was as a mostly rural international backwater that quickly transitioned quickly to a world power with oceans and, almost always, peaceful neighbors on its borders. Which is something to be thankful for, even if it has led to a fairly weak resolve.