Sentence examples for considered a backwater from inspiring English sources
Micronesia was considered a backwater.
Frederick was pained that Saxony was widely considered a backwater.
Within the intelligence community, the agency was considered a backwater.
And all of this in a country, which was considered a backwater of Europe.
For years, municipal finance has been considered a backwater of Wall Street.
For decades, New York was considered a backwater in the early-music world, secondary in importance to the thriving scenes in Boston and Berkeley.
Low-level employees in what many in the I.R.S. consider a backwater, they processed thousands of applications a year, mostly from charities like private schools or hospitals.
For many years, the bank of the East River, with Gracie Mansion, was considered a peculiar backwater.
Once considered a rural backwater populated by agronomists, extension agents and farmers, agricultural research is now being explicitly placed within global debates about innovation, technology, institutions and development.
Still, the group was considered a sleepy backwater until Sabatacakis turned their attention a few years later to banking's other major risk: credit default.
LONG considered a small, backwater agency, the Patent and Trademark Office has found itself in recent years at the forefront of the new, high-technology economy.
