Sentence examples for something of a backwater from inspiring English sources

Banking supervision has always been something of a backwater at the Fed.

These days the province is something of a backwater, albeit a beautiful one.

Wall Street was eclipsed for decades and became something of a backwater in American life.

Over the centuries that Antwerp flourished, Mechelen became something of a backwater.

In contrast, it was a small, if at times strategically significant, provincial town, something of a backwater for much of its history.

That is why the job of education minister, considered something of a backwater in most countries, carries huge weight in this one.

Women's sport as a wider prospect has long been something of a commercial backwater.

"America" he added, "is in danger of becoming something of a legal backwater".

"America is in danger, I think, of becoming something of a legal backwater," Justice Michael Kirby of the High Court of Australia said in a 2001 interview.

Although it became something of a strategic backwater during the cold war, this maritime domain is emerging as the global system's center of gravity.

It got me thinking that there was some interesting stuff happening musically in a place that for so long was seen as something of a musical backwater in the U.K. General Fiasco — from Bellaghy — released its second album, "Unfaithfully Yours" in July.