Sentence examples for relative backwater from inspiring English sources

At that time, 50 years ago, St. Émilion was a relative backwater.

Thatcher's only cabinet-level experience had been in a relative backwater.

The cold war years had relegated Austria to relative backwater status.

London, leaving him at large, posts him to Vienna, a relative backwater for espionage.

Mr. Gorman got the job of overseeing what then looked to outsiders like a relative backwater: retail brokerage and asset management.

In the years since, Israel has gone from a being a relative backwater to acquiring a European style of wealth and high-tech innovation.

Coming from the relative backwaters of rural Wales, it was an eye-opening experience.

Now Empires of the Imagination sets out to explain a parallel shift: how did Britain go from "relative artistic backwater" to the "leading cultural power in Europe"?

Unlike the Defense Department, which Krieger describes as "comfortable with technology" and flush with funds, State is a relative tech backwater with a much more limited budget.

IT was largely the romantic obsession of male writers and moviemakers that first elevated boxing from barroom backwater to relative respectability early in the 20th century.

A delicate wildflower in a garden of weeds, Lauduree, the 13-year-old protagonist of Jenny Deller's "Future Weather," has little resemblance to her relatives in a scraggly Midwestern backwater.