"Simple man, living in a backwater country, with modest aspirations."
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Frederick was pained that Saxony was widely considered a backwater.
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Within the intelligence community, the agency was considered a backwater.
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Far from being a backwater, the south had plenty of visitors.
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For decades, payments firms existed as a backwater in the banking landscape.
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In cultural references, it's often portrayed as a backwater or a wasteland.
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But Malacca's port silted up centuries ago and is now a backwater.
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Zhang was born into poverty in a backwater town in Sichuan, China.
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LISBON — Not long ago, Portugal's capital, Lisbon, was a backwater of Europe.
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Russia's league is hardly a backwater, with the sixth-highest average Elo rating.
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Since its French colonial days the Mekong has been more of a backwater.
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"It's not like we are going to become a backwater," Mr. Caldwell said.
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Alcohol and tobacco enforcement is now regarded by many agents as a backwater.
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Whereas the Caribbean attracts tourists and enterprise, the Pacific has been a backwater.
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It had long been a backwater, probably ever since Joshua fit the battle.
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For decades, payments firms have existed as a backwater in the banking landscape.
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Technology went from a backwater industry to the forefront of global power and commerce.
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"Everyplace else is a backwater," Walter Light, an independent oilman in Houston, told me.
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London "was bit of a backwater for Pop at that time," Mr. VeneKlasen said.
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Now she was getting ready to sleep in a tent on a backwater island.
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"The challenge NBC has is that digital is still a backwater," said one former employee.
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One of the great sports treasures in Boston history was leaving for a backwater outpost.
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Anakin is from a backwater planet where he's a literal slave to more powerful business interests.
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Where technology and economics collide Historically, the Department of Transportation has been a bit of a backwater.
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The area is stereotyped as a backwater, even though it has a rich history and ecological diversity.
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He joined the K.G.B. and in 1985 was stationed in Dresden, a backwater posting in East Germany.
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Derbent became a backwater, left with a magnificent if crumbling citadel and just one of its imposing walls.
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How are firms from such a backwater thriving, ask the exporters of Lahore and Karachi, while they struggle?
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Later when Spain withdrew from the area, Fort Adams became a backwater in every sense of the word.
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Then, almost by chance, a new development transformed gene drives from a backwater science into a vanguard technology.
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Ukraine is kind of a backwater, so we didn't really have any of the tension from those days.
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Guiana was a backwater of British colonialism, though, and the postal system did not always work as planned.
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It was a bit of a backwater after CTC, but much lower stress and a significant rise in rank.
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Civil servants will probably object too, because the most likely new site for the capital is something of a backwater.
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We are a backwater of a nation that still has states where the 'Gay Panic' defense is enshrined in law.
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Though now known as a premier event, it was not so long ago that the Open was considered a backwater.
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The New York couple moved to Miami in 1993, when it was largely considered a backwater of the contemporary art scene.
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Having long shed its reputation as a backwater, Bordeaux is still often overlooked by travelers intent on the Paris-Provence circuit.
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But for centuries, Alter remained a backwater, save for luring residents from the nearby city of Santarém and the occasional adventurer.
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Though banks have offered this form of financing since the 1990s, it remained a bit of a backwater until the financial crisis.
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When Bangkok became Thailand's capital in 1782, it was a backwater village crisscrossed by canals known as the "Venice of the East".
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But New York has remained a backwater on electoral reform because the state's antiquated and convoluted laws protect incumbents and political machines.
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And, by the way, how did the tournament go from a backwater to the largest annual sporting event in the Southern Hemisphere?
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Berbera, along the coast from Djibouti, has been a backwater since 1991 when Somaliland broke away from Somalia following a bloody civil war.
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She's to report her findings to a committee of local people eager to refute criticisms that their community is perpetrating a backwater fraud.
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Yet the central bank considered consumer protection a backwater and didn't use that power until 2008 – too late to prevent the Great Recession.
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A popular mean girl in a backwater town, virginal or not, drunk or not, dressed suggestively or not, shouldn't be abducted and assaulted.
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"Before them, the subject was mostly a collection of platitudes, a backwater that law schools largely ignored," Professor Gillers said in an email.
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Once a backwater of banking, the payments sector is now lucrative and fast-growing and is attracting growing interest from private equity investors.
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The city of Wuhu, a backwater three hours away from Shanghai, is a symbol of China's gaming potential - as well as its risks.
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As I took in the scene, it was hard to believe that not so long ago Bordeaux was considered somewhat of a backwater.
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This is a rural area, a backwater, and so it could be assumed that people here are rarely in much of a hurry.
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Paradise PD (NETFLIX ORIGINAL): From "Brickleberry" creators Roger Black and Waco O'Guin comes this adult animated comedy about a backwater Southern-fried police department.
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Now we're in a process where the EU is reinventing the post-renaissance Chinese system, which turned China into a backwater for many centuries.
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The fact that the Trump administration seems to have a fundamental disdain for science threatens to turn the United States into a backwater nation.
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The region has four state forests, and because it is so sparsely populated, it has a reputation as a backwater region in New Jersey.
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In the meantime, Earth is safe from flares like this one because we're far from the galactic center, in a backwater of the galaxy.
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Raised in a backwater near Pretoria, Mr Mashaba was cared for by his sisters while their mother, a domestic worker, raised other people's children.
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A "simple man, living in a backwater country, with modest aspirations" — that's how Iceland's Kari Stefansson described himself this week from his office in Reykjavik.
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For the FDA, regulating pharma isn't a backwater that takes a back seat to busting gangsters—as it has reportedly been seen by the DEA.
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Taken literally, the show examines the geopolitics of a massive, heartless corporation defying the intergalactic government to steamroll a backwater planet for its own gain.
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This area being a backwater, as well as a place for holidaymakers, it may be the case that people feel entitled to shed that burden here.
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Over the past two decades, as China grew from a backwater into the world's largest automotive market, most foreign carmakers have set up manufacturing facilities in-country.
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He suggested that Steele didn't appear to be "going places in the service," noting that, after the Cold War, Russia had become a backwater at M.I.20173.
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At the F.B.I., counterterrorism agents candidly admitted that domestic terrorism was seen as a backwater and that the only path to advancement was through international terrorism cases.
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"It went from a backwater with really no tourism infrastructure at all to one of the leading aurora destinations on the planet in a decade," he said.
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"Isaan is like being from Idaho," a backwater burg to urban Thais who view it as the place where the city's taxi drivers and domestic workers hail from.
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A backwater planet called Niraya is brutally attacked, and their fates lie in the hands of a small band of pilots who have their own host of problems.
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Europe has long been considered a backwater for tech, particularly for tech startups, but that's no longer the case, said Roy Saar, a partner with Mangrove Capital Partners.
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Once a backwater of banking, the sector is now both lucrative and fast-growing, but also faces competition from newcomers trying to disrupt the way merchants are paid.
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Once a backwater of banking, the payments sector is now both lucrative and fast-growing, but also faces competition from newcomers trying to disrupt the way merchants are paid.
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Janina lives in an upland area of south-western Poland near the Czech border: a backwater where the winter snows convince her that "the world was not created for Mankind".
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Sports radio does fairly big numbers, in the major markets, but it's a backwater of high intensity and low consequence, with more petty jealousies and rivalries than you find in academe.
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SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Investors are increasingly excited about the prospects for much faster growth in the solar power industry in Southeast Asia, which has until now been a backwater for renewable energy.
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Seoul (CNN)Uiseong, a picturesque South Korean farming county, was a backwater until homegrown heroes the Garlic Girls became breakout stars and curling silver medalists at last year's Pyeongchang Winter Olympics.
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The two chickha performers live in a backwater provincial town in an autocratic developing nation and escape their modest surroundings by fleeing into the fantasy worlds of songs, dance, and entertainment.
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To me, that suggests the official isn't someone totally obscure who would embarrass the paper if his or her identity became known, like a deputy assistant secretary in a backwater Cabinet agency.
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Over the course of three films, he transforms from a backwater farm boy with big dreams to a confident Jedi master who still has his weaknesses, but doesn't let them control him.
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The southern city has gone from being one of the world's busiest ports as a hub of the British empire to a backwater and then in recent months to a conflict zone.
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Taking a small faction from a backwater power to a region-spanning empire often descended into long, wearying grinds against swarms of AI opponents who weren't so much adversaries as militant speedbumps.
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If men's wear has traditionally been a backwater of fashion, following more than leading trends in thought and design, there is one way in which that is clearly no longer the case: diversity.
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Mr Trudeau is treating Atlantic Canada "like a backwater", complained one MP. In the Senate, where regional diversity is assured, the risk is that a less partisan chamber will be a more assertive one.
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Although the quality of the wines was appreciated in the 19th century, Cahors has more recently been little more than a backwater, a place more recognized for its potential than valued for its wines.
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I have been especially intrigued by Bruno's world because the Périgord, where duck fat is a way of life, is a backwater for wine, even if it is just an hour inland from Bordeaux.
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"Kim would have been very struck looking very closely at a place that he knows has gone from a backwater to this First World landscape, and asked himself how it did this," Siracusa told CNN.
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In May, Atria released a translation of his novel, "Britt-Marie Was Here," about a passive-aggressive woman who leaves her cheating husband and ends up coaching a children's soccer team in a backwater town.
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Until the 215s, when the first banking laws were put in place to attract international capital, the Cayman Islands was a backwater, with an economy dependent on seamen who would send their remittances back home.
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His wife, Deborah, was a graduate student in linguistics who taught E.S.L. He listened to her young Japanese students talk about Vancouver as though it were a backwater; Tokyo must really be something, he thought.
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By appearing on CNN, he broke a tradition by which members of Congress from Alabama seldom if ever speak out on a political issue that might be seen nationally as painting the state as a backwater.
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Only the Champions League justifies the investment, only the Champions League validates the project, only the Champions League brings Qatar the kudos it desires: proof that what was once a backwater can become a global player.
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Frank Tibo, a former chief tax officer at a bank where Mr. Shields and Mr. Mora worked, said American and British cum-ex traders regarded the Continent as a backwater of old economies ripe for swindling.
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"Jerusalem was something of a backwater, a regression to a conservative culture that they were trying to move away from," according to Michael Dumper, professor in Middle East politics at the University of Exeter in England.
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On their days off, McMillan and Morin often hung out in Little Burgundy—then a backwater neighborhood of greasy spoons, thrift shops, and Art Deco buildings like the home of Atwater, one of Montreal's sprawling indoor markets.
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Ms. Yu, and her husband, Liu Xiaodong, also an artist, were acting in a low budget movie, called "The Days," about the couple's true-life story as impoverished art teachers in a backwater province in northeast China.
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With his swift tracing of Athens's rise from a backwater polis to burgeoning power, the historian not only underscores the near-sudden fear that overtakes Sparta but also lays bare the tragic implications of the brewing collision.
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First announced back at The Game Awards, the game looks to blend the first person RPG gameplay of Fallout with a somewhat over-the-top sci-fi universe, that takes place on what looks like a backwater planet.
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The shake up in an area sometimes viewed as a backwater by ambitious employees reflects a push by Italian banks to claw back bad debts that make up some 22019 percent of total loans — three times the European average.
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"From an archaeological perspective this region was kind of a backwater," says Greg Hare, an archaeologist who works for the Yukon government and has been recovering artifacts from an area the size of Switzerland for the past two decades.
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While front-page headlines over the past six months give the appearance that OGE is flexing its muscle, the truth is the agency has long been a backwater with limited tools to promote ethical behavior in the executive branch.
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Once a backwater of banking, the payment processing sector is now regarded as one of the most lucrative and fast-growing businesses in the financial sector, though it faces competition from newcomers trying to disrupt the way merchants are paid.
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Once a backwater of banking, the payment processing sector is now regarded as one of the most lucrative and fast-growing businesses in the financial sector, though it also faces competition from newcomers trying to disrupt the way merchants are paid.
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And it's not just that she was born in a backwater of El Salvador and crossed Mexico hidden among a pile of bananas in the back of a truck to make her way illegally into the United States at age 20.
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Once a cosmopolitan city home to thriving Hindu and Christian communities, Aden has gone from being one of the world's busiest ports as a hub of the British empire to a backwater and then in recent months to a conflict zone.
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We first meet him in The Paradise Snare as a brash 18-year-old who grew up under a harsh local crime boss named Garris Shrike, and escapes to become a pilot for a religious cult on a backwater world named Ylesia.
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As such, ATS is transitioning from a backwater of HR technology to Application Information Systems that will radically reduce the preponderance of false positives and false negatives in candidate pools, thereby significantly reducing bad hires that cost employers about $15,000 each, on average.
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After Apple bought Siri, the giant company seemed to treat it as a backwater, restricting it to doing only a few, slowly increasing number of tasks, like telling you the weather, sports scores, movie and restaurant listings, and controlling the device's functions.
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After Apple bought Siri, the giant company seemed to treat it as a backwater, restricting it to doing only a few, slowly increasing number of tasks, like telling you the weather, sports scores and movie and restaurant listings or controlling the device's functions.
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Noyon had seen its share of luminaries—Charlemagne was crowned co-king of the Franks at its cathedral in 768, Calvin was born there, and through the centuries the town had fallen to Vikings, Habsburgs, and Nazis—but now it was a backwater.
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Vantiv's move to buy Worldpay comes at a time when more purchases are being made online, and the payments industry - long considered a backwater of banking - is facing fresh competition from a series of newcomers that are trying to disrupt the way merchants get paid.
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After years of work in a backwater bureau he had outmaneuvered the knuckle-draggers that wanted a preemptive strike, and he had cruised past the ancient Secretary of State, whose words of caution were an archaic throwback to a simpler, less technologically sophisticated era.
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DHAKA/SINGAPORE (Reuters) - South Asia, long a backwater for energy markets, is emerging as a hotspot for liquefied natural gas (LNG), with Pakistan and Bangladesh set to join India as major consumers, helping to ease global oversupply that has dogged this market for years.
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The produce also bears the responsibility of uniting, however briefly, all ex-Soviets in the metropolitan area, most of whom do not actually reside in Brighton Beach but look down on it as a backwater dump where those who failed to move forward got stuck.
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Long a backwater of technology adoption, thanks to the fragmented nature of the shipping and logistics business, the advent of low-cost sensors, cheap smart phones and increasingly robust wireless networks are transforming the "unsexy" business into a sector where investors are cutting big checks at massive valuations.
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Those feelings are also tinged with a touch of pride that, after centuries in the shadow of Russia, its giant neighbor to the east, the nation is no longer seen as a backwater but a pivot around which the fate of the world's most powerful country implausibly turns.
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From the Yachay pipe dream to Lago Agrio, a backwater drilling town buried in the Amazon jungle, to dreary slums in the gritty metropolis of Guayaquil and the most notorious ghetto in Ecuador, this story follows a petrodollar trail of truth, taking in people and places touched by Correa's revolutionary vision.
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Little did Zola know, she was hurtling toward the center of a backwater psychodrama in which she would face off against a series of pimps, johns, kidnappers, one very weepy white boy and Jessica herself, who had pulled her new friend into this nonconsensual weekend tour of the underground sex trade.
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A raft of players came to England from across the world in 1994 — not the stars of the tournament, who still saw the Premier League as something of a backwater, but seemingly anyone else English teams could get their hands on, as long as they had been on television that summer.
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"Captain Marvel" does play with conventional assumptions about good and evil, and even incorporates a not-so-subtle message about refugees, as the conflict spills down to a nondescript orb called Earth, which one alien visitor dismisses as a backwater planet using a slightly vulgar if of late familiar term.
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As it exists now, it's something of a backwater; the U.S. teams feature a few D-Leaguers and swaggy Wisconsin rotation guy Zak Showalter are in the player pool, but as it presently exists it's otherwise dominated by opportunistic ex-Ivy Leaguers and players from the outer reaches of NAIA anonymity.
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The world of Trailer Park Boys is a world we've never really seen on TV, a backwater world of run-down fable or real-life cartoon (the show's closest relative is the turn-of-the-century Cartoon Network classic Ed, Edd n Eddy; the boys are basically grown-up versions of the Eds).
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Hotel Dusk is a point-and-click affair in which you, as former police detective turned traveling salesman Kyle Hyde (a name that, throughout the game's 15 hours, constantly had "Born Slippy" rolling around my head), find yourself at a backwater California hotel at the beginning of a single, highly eventful night between Christmas and New Year, 1979.
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And even though Darwin had always gotten a bad rap from Sydney and Melbourne for being a backwater and a bunch of rednecks, I feel that, when I was growing up at least, there was a harmonious relationship between all of these cultures and races that actually turned into deep-seated friendships — and I'm talking deep family relationships, bonds that are still going strong today.
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While Champaign is the kind of Corn Belt town that is often upheld as prototypically Middle America — predominantly white, Christian and Republican — Hoganson discovered it was far from a backwater: Her neighbors bought imported goods at the same big box stores that dotted the rest of the country; they ate produce from Mexico and Chile and kept in touch with family members who had migrated to coastal cities.
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If one follows the national media, it is reasonable to presume that the sky is falling; that President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE is crazy or worse; and that the Republican Congress is a backwater of unrepentant misanthropes.
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R2-D2, a droid first found on a Naboo cruiser in Episode I, manages to use the same kind of port to infiltrate systems on a backwater Separatist base in Episode II... ...a Separatist flagship in Episode III... ...a state-of-the-art Imperial battle station in Episode IV... … and a civilian mining facility in Episode V. In Rogue One, a reprogrammed Imperial droid K-2SO hijacks one of his model brethren, and accesses the exact same kind of port in the back of the droid's head.
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Carrère sought to tell that story as fully as he could, but it wouldn't be a Carrère book if, in telling that story, he didn't also tell the story of the making of the feature documentary he shot in Russia, in 25 (Carrère has a parallel career as a film and television director and writer), about the town, Kotelnich, a backwater 21993 hours from Moscow, where a 22004-year-old Hungarian soldier from World War II was discovered 24 years after he fought against the Soviets and, having been taken prisoner, confined to a tiny mental hospital.
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