Sentence examples for provincial backwater from inspiring English sources

A stagnant, provincial backwater.

In 1835 Libya reverted to the status of a provincial backwater of the Ottoman Empire.

In its 700-odd years of recorded history, the city has been both capital city and provincial backwater.

The play starts with the news that a St Petersburg bigwig is travelling in secret to a provincial backwater.

Considers the history and function of Shanghai, from 1840 to the present, and its rise from provincial backwater to international metropolis.

Today the cradle of Algarve holidaymaking represents all of the triumphs and tragedies (mainly aesthetic) of the region's rise from provincial backwater to international getaway.

Maysan and Dhi Qar, fairly peaceful provincial backwaters, gradually succumb to mayhem and violence.

Whatever the capital's drawbacks, few Tehranis approve of a plan that would send them back to the same provincial backwaters that they or their parents left.

Of course, much of the change in Manchester mirrors a broader trend across western Europe to spread prosperity to regional centers once ignored as provincial backwaters.

The narrative hopscotches in a series of snapshots capturing the poverty and indignity of China's provincial backwaters, the snug comforts party officials enjoy, the materialism of a new urban generation and the tension between Chinese values and the transplanted cultural heritage of the West.

Those tables, meanwhile, tally all too vividly with the "tedious gray town" that is the provincial Russian backwater where the play is set.