Sentence examples for isolated backwater from inspiring English sources

But when Lithuania and Poland eventually join the EU, Kaliningrad risks becoming an even poorer, more isolated backwater, leaking crime and disease into the prosperous Baltic region.The EU is keen to help Kaliningrad get ahead, but that will be hard so long as Russia sees it as strictly its internal affair.

But transforming this Southeast Asian nation from an isolated backwater into a modern, functioning country will probably require a different set of skills.

With the opening of the Suez Canal, the island lost much of its strategic significance and became an isolated backwater.

Before Ariel Sharon, the prime minister, could tell everyone to be quiet, Binyamin Netanyahu, his finance minister, said that since America had defeated Iraq, Israel no longer had to make any concessions to the "isolated backwater" that Syria now is.

Though his band, Massukos, has toured in Europe and appeared before crowds in the thousands, he spends most of his time running a small charity called Estamos ("We are") in his native Niassa, an isolated backwater near the Tanzanian border and among the poorest of Mozambique's 11 provinces.

Oman's economic model, which has depended on oil exports since the 1970s, has transformed the sultanate from the impoverished and isolated backwater it was during the reign of Sultan Qaboos' father Said bin Taimur into a wealthy GCC member.

Kheli is not growing up in an increasingly isolated African backwater; Africa today is more integrated into the global infrastructure than ever.

Later, it was the North's economic growth and deep-water ports, and then the Civil War itself, that left Charleston isolated, a backwater, a city preserved in amber.

One person's ancient, farm-studded mountain valley is another person's isolated, uncivilized backwater.

In Professor Smith's previous book, "American Evangelicalism: Embattled and Thriving" (University of Chicago, 1998), his extensive polling and interviews challenged the widespread stereotype that evangelicalism only flourished in intellectual and economic backwaters, isolated enclaves guarded from what Walter Lippmann famously called the "acids of modernity".

After a while, he felt like he was in "some sort of backwater," he said, and isolated as well.