Sentence examples for remote backwater from inspiring English sources
After independence, India treated the Andamans as a remote backwater, too costly to supply or defend.
His torpid movements suggested years of living in a remote backwater where nothing much ever happened.
Accessed by steep, winding roads, the Cinque Terre, with their brightly coloured houses, used to be a remote backwater.
The transformation of Cox's Bazar from remote backwater to a beach El Dorado encapsulates the changes that have taken place in this country of 160 million people, and many other developing Asian countries, over the last couple of decades.
Extensive cultural, trade, and political relations developed across the Himalayas, transforming the valley from a relatively remote backwater into the major intellectual and commercial centre between South and Central Asia.
But once a new expressway, a 9km tunnel and several bridges have been built to link downtown Shanghai with the province of Jiangsu to the north, Chongming will no longer be a remote backwater.
My next call was to another New York harbor captain, John McMurray, who often prefers the fast action of the remote backwaters of Jamaica Bay.
For more than a year, the police combed dense forests and remote backwaters in search of India's most wanted fugitive -- the man suspected of killing an Australian missionary and his two young sons.
Along with flour, water and salt, it takes time -- as well as patience and the gentleness that comes from an unhurried hand -- to make the great bread that's appearing in large cities and remote backwaters across the country.
Matches were frequently held in remote backwaters and were not openly publicized in order that the fighters might avoid arrest; barges were also used as fight venues because they could be located in waters outside U.S. legal jurisdiction and fights could be held unimpeded.
There is no such thing as a local firm, we are told; even the smallest shop in the remotest backwater is now part of the global supply chain.
