Felt, holes in the canvas, errant hearts and backwater crosses.
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"Simple man, living in a backwater country, with modest aspirations."
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Meanwhile, the company's core products have remained a development backwater.
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Which is not to say Cincinnati is some transit backwater.
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Frederick was pained that Saxony was widely considered a backwater.
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Opinion Brexit has exposed my country as a solipsistic backwater.
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Within the intelligence community, the agency was considered a backwater.
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Japanese television showed backwater rushing away from shore at Onahama Port.
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Far from being a backwater, the south had plenty of visitors.
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We've gone from global health being a total backwater of study.
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He grew up poor, in a rural backwater of northern Vietnam.
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White nationalists aren't some uneducated backwater clowns that are going to disappear.
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For decades, payments firms existed as a backwater in the banking landscape.
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The situation: You're on a packed, delayed train to your backwater hometown.
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When it comes to press freedom, however, Australia is a dismal backwater.
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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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As a hymn to the solipsistic backwater we've become, it's painfully apt.
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Despite the additional duties, the Border Patrol was a largely understaffed 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 took a $10 million carrot to lure him to a rugby backwater.
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"It's not like we are going to become a backwater," Mr. Caldwell said.
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The setting is backwater Louisiana; the themes are poverty, racism, heroin and guns.
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There wasn't much to do growing up in my backwater hometown of Hereford.
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Alcohol and tobacco enforcement is now regarded by many agents as a backwater.
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I was 16 and visiting family in a rural backwater in northeastern Italy.
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Whereas the Caribbean attracts tourists and enterprise, the Pacific has been a backwater.
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For years, the United States has worked to eliminate nepotism in backwater regimes.
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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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This wasn't some backwater town with Barney Fife telling me to shut up.
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Technology went from a backwater industry to the forefront of global power and commerce.
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They could deny the dissenters top committee assignments or place them on backwater committees.
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"Everyplace else is a backwater," Walter Light, an independent oilman in Houston, told me.
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That now extends to federal education policy, once a sleepy backwater of genial bipartisanship.
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The Stockholm that Strindberg guides readers through was sometimes depicted as an unsophisticated backwater.
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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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Having come from an industrial backwater in Eastern Ukraine, Kostya was not well-connected.
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In subsequent decades, however, it's become a bureaucratic backwater with little real policymaking clout.
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Its economy has grown from a regional backwater to the eleventh largest in the world.
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Worker representation in Germany has probably dampened inequality without making the country an economic backwater.
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"The challenge NBC has is that digital is still a backwater," said one former employee.
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It's coming just in time, too, because the United States has become a payments backwater.
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Luckily, the one standout feature of this otherwise backwater planet is a bustling trading post.
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It's taken root in the muddy internet backwater where only inspirational anecdotes tend to flourish.
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One of the great sports treasures in Boston history was leaving for a backwater outpost.
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The tiny Jamaican backwater of Gibbeah is locked in a mythic battle for its soul.
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The North Dakota Department of Transportation closed the Backwater Bridge due to damage from that incident.
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But in 8203 this backwater bank incurred the wrath and might of the world's financial hegemon.
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In 1941, Congress approved a plan called the Yazoo Backwater Project, to deal with these floods.
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At first, we wondered how anyone could spend three weeks in such a remote, sleepy backwater.
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Only, now there is a twist: Florida is no longer the swampy backwater it once was.
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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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IN THE stormy and ever-changing world of global finance, insurance has remained a relatively placid backwater.
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Law enforcement were holding a line north of the Backwater Bridge early Friday morning, the sheriff's department.
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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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Making their way to freedom in the backwater of Puerto Maldonado, the couple learn that they're stranded.
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"Europe will become a digital backwater," said Daniel Dalton, a member of the European Parliament from Britain.
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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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It is the same desolate picture in scores of other backwater settlements in Portugal's interior, north to south.
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They are discussing reopening the nearby Backwater Bridge on state highway 1806, which has been blockaded since Oct.
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No, but a fire broke out Saturday night west of Backwater Bridge and burned into early Sunday morning.
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THE backwater Colombian town of La Hormiga near the border with Ecuador has experienced many booms and busts.
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Hundreds of thousands of Kurds fled to western Turkey and Europe, and the southeast became a neglected backwater.
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Not many people live here, making it feel like a remote backwater within the world's most industrialized country.
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Her work is concerned with repetitive daily rituals, unremarkable lives, low-paying jobs, backwater towns, and unglamorous rooms.
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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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Through the 1980s and '90s, Australia's longtime reputation as a culinary backwater — British food, but worse — was transformed.
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For much of the 20th century, the country was a barren Persian Gulf backwater where pirates once lurked.
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"I suppose we are a little, quiet backwater, but young people are very well educated," Ms. Smyth said.
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"Cornwall is very economically deprived and is now perceived as a rural backwater — a tourist area," she said.
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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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This theft was crucial to the stunning transformation of China from an impoverished backwater into a global powerhouse.
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Shenzhen, once itself the bucolic backwater, has risen into China's giddy vision of a digital, high-tech future.
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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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The monster and its ilk might seem like "a pleasant backwater in the history of mathematics," he said.
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During his seven-decade rule, the monarch presided over Thailand's climb from a village backwater to a modern nation.
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It's as sordid as it is classy; part art gallery, part museum, part seedy backwater nightclub, part fandom city.
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Truth is, any pier in a salty backwater will do, including docks in the Bronx, Queens or Staten Island.
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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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The other protest was at Backwater Bridge, where one demonstrator was seriously injured Sunday and nearly lost an arm.
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Just a tension developed by being at the mercy of an inbred family on some Texas backwater murdering shit.
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In the coastal backwater once popular with Western backpackers, 20 new casinos have opened in the past two years.
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Chris Poole, the founder of the controversial messaging board and Internet backwater 4chan, is going to be a Googler.
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We had a good run and can rightfully be proud of our rise from colonial backwater to world power.
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The Hong Kong stock exchange has ascended from a sleepy backwater to regularly contending for hot initial public offerings.
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GO. Get the hell away from this shithole backwater of a country while its power grid is still functioning.
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"When you get waves crashing in at high tide, the backwater rushes back out in certain spots," he said.
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A big-city disease, as locals viewed it, was not meant to erupt in a Hoosier backwater, population 4,2503.
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After a few days, though, the attention subsided, and life in the Amazonian backwater returned to its usual obscurity.
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In 2009, schedulers gambled by moving it from a Sunday pre-lunch backwater slot to prime time early evening.
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That the center of the Arctic Ocean was unregulated was hardly a concern when it was an icebound backwater.
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It has grown, since 2000, from a poverty-stricken backwater to the world's largest economy, mainly powered by coal.
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THE DISTRICT of Zernograd, or Grainville, in Russia's southern Rostov region has many hallmarks of a depressed post-Soviet backwater.
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But to write off Cleveland as some misguided backwater beached in bygone times would not be doing the hamlet justice.
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Dandong, an urban backwater in the armpit of Manchuria (see map), is at the sharp end of this sanctions regime.
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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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At the same time, Mexico has evolved from an industry backwater to become one of the world's largest automotive manufacturers.
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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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But he was also credited for transforming his Southeast Asian country from a sleepy backwater into a modern industrialized nation.
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Jiangxi Province lies inland and has long stayed a rural backwater as neighboring coastal regions boomed from trade and industry.
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That's an astonishing possibility, deeply at odds with popular conceptions of the Hermit Kingdom as a totally stagnant economic backwater.
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Thanks to some understandable confusion at the ticket counter, they wind up instead in the flyblown backwater of Bet Hatikva.
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At this mid-table team, in this backwater town, Odegaard still carries with him an air of almost impossible glamour.
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His appointment as professor in Wittenberg was at first unwelcome; Luther felt he had been exiled to a provincial backwater.
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HONG KONG — China was an economic backwater when Jim Rogers began traveling its dusty byways more than three decades ago.
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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 state has been transformed from a cows-cactus-and-casinos backwater into the third-most-urbanised state in the country.
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When we first meet up again with Bourne he's working as a kind of black-market boxer in a distant backwater.
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Far Cry 5 developer Ubisoft is playing with fire – hellfire, that is, as it sometimes arises in America's more backwater regions.
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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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As a mammoth construction project rather than an experiment in policy liberalisation, this bureaucratic backwater won't do anything of the sort.
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Leading right-wing writers like H.L. Mencken and Albert Jay Nock decried lynching and saw the South as a shameful backwater.
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As an American sportswriter in Europe, I can testify that many here remain convinced the United States is a soccer backwater.
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The looming penalty provides the latest evidence that policing price-fixers, once an enforcement backwater, has become a priority for trustbusters.
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There's a rare variety in characters and buildings: dilapidated churches; backwater bootlegger sheds; a steamboat, complete with a tuxedoed Southern elite.
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Insurance may be widely perceived as a sleepy backwater when it comes to innovation in technology, but that's about to change.
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Until 2015, when the numbers of asylum-seekers started rising drastically, the agency was a relative backwater inside the interior ministry.
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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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When the winemakers in southwest France could no longer sell wine at premium prices, those areas settled into a provincial backwater.
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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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You've been there: browsing on a slightly backwater website, crossing your fingers as you click what looks like a video's play button.
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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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A post-war intellectual backlash against Keynesianism relegated the original Cambridge to a dissident backwater, condemned to critique the mainstream from outside.
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In just a matter of decades, their nation has gone from an impoverished backwater to one of the wealthiest in the world.
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Protesters allegedly started two fires on the Backwater Bridge protest site and threw Molotov cocktails at law enforcement Thursday night, Fong said.
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Now, nearly three years later, the occult death doom entity turned funerary force has returned with an oppressive new album named Backwater.
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This exhibition suggests that half a millennium ago, in a small town once considered an artistic backwater, the Renaissance began with Bosch.
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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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"This scramble just took us 45 minutes," Mr. Hamad, 33, complained after completing a circuitous detour through backwater villages and across orchards.
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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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An isolated, impoverished backwater has evolved into the most significant rival to the United States since the fall of the Soviet Union.
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The New New World HONG KONG — Once derided as a technology backwater and copycat, China is justifiably proud of its technology boom.
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The Caribbean, which under Pablo Escobar had been the main drug platform into the United States, became more of a criminal backwater.
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The chinese middle class grew faster than anyone expected and a once provincial backwater became America's largest competitor on the global stage.
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Still a sleepy backwater of an island, it became her regular haven for nearly a decade, long outlasting the relationship with Louise.
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Olga, Masha and Irina Prozorov, though raised in Moscow, have landed in a provincial Russian backwater where nothing much happens except heartbreak.
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Olga, Masha and Irina Prozorov, though raised in Moscow, have landed in a provincial Russian backwater where nothing much happens except heartbreak.
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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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Of course, all this promises a gradual escalation, a la Vietnam, for the same reason -- competition with Russia over a nonstrategic, backwater country.
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To predict that a European backwater would lead the world into the most transformative economic epoch in history would have seemed like madness.
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Sacha Baron Cohen is unfairly making the citizens of Kingman, Arizona look like a bunch of backwater racists ... according to the city's mayor.
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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 another will center on the evolution of Sin City from a desert backwater of mobs and violence to a thriving tourist destination.
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With clockwork regularity, every election, they've chosen to keep their state an economic and educational backwater, an international symbol of America's racial lunacy.
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Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum took Dubai, United Arab Emirates, from a postcolonial backwater to the global financial powerhouse it is today.
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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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Late last month, tensions boiled over at a protest camp near Backwater Bridge when law enforcement officials forced demonstrators out of the area.
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Tehran has long been considered a cyber backwater — less advanced, and technologically and intellectually inferior to other adversaries such as China and Russia.
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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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The country, once known as Siam, had only recently been named Thailand and was still a tropical backwater of rice paddies and canals.
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Even more meaningful to Ms. Saleh was the praise of a poor old man after a performance in the southern backwater of Aswan.
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There, in a scientific backwater, he assembled a small group of chemists who laid the groundwork for revolutionary advances in steroid hormone drugs.
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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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But right now the most important fight is Raqqa, a once-obscure backwater that has become the epicenter of the war against ISIS.
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Over the past three months, the claim has spread from backwater right-wing conspiracy theorists to the highest reaches of the Republican Party.
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Until recently not many tourists ventured into the Bronx, which has long sought to shake an unfair image as a crime-ridden backwater.
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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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In contrast, the DPRK stagnated, a totalitarian backwater that was little more than an army with a state, as Prussia once was described.
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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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They were heading up the highway toward the blockade on their side of the Backwater Bridge, which serves as the front line these days.
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LA is one of the hottest art scenes in the world right now, but when Divola began his career, it was a relative backwater.
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While the city used to be a bit of a business backwater, in recent years it gained a reputation as a start-up hub.
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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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UFC president Dana White is probably the biggest star on the program, and his sport was considered to be a barbaric backwater for years.
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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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Mexico has grown from an automotive backwater to become the fifth-largest producer of fully assembled vehicles in the world, according to federal data.
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"We enjoy one of the highest standards of living in the world," he added, recalling the land was a poor backwater three centuries ago.
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It lists a few ceremonies and a single march on the Backwater Bridge, the sight of several conflicts between water protectors and the police.
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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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From an unassuming townhouse in the Irish capital, Ms. Dixon, the country's data protection commissioner, leads an agency that was once a bureaucratic backwater.
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West Jerusalem, which had been under siege during the hostilities, was not set up to serve as a capital and remained a relative backwater.
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The party that talks loudest about American exceptionalism has given us a cast of characters that would be perfectly unexceptional in any backwater oligarchy.
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The Bronx River itself, once considered a polluted backwater, is now home to ever-growing populations of fish — and even a couple of beavers.
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Soto imagined bringing religion directly to the people by offering sermons or bible study in unusual places, like backwater towns, CrossFit gyms, campgrounds, and bars.
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The historic election defeat was attributed in part to Mahathir&aposs reputation as a statesman who transformed a Southeast Asian backwater into a modern economy.
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The barricade stands on the Backwater Bridge between the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation and Bismarck, the capital of North Dakota and the closest big city.
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The government can afford this thanks to Macau's transformation, in the space of a generation, from post-industrial backwater to the world's largest gambling centre.
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In fact, there's an excellent chance the chip that makes your laptop or cell phone work was made using sand from this obscure Appalachian backwater.
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And as this happened, fly over America felt demeaned by the dominant culture, which came to see them as backwater, intolerant, and yes, even racist.
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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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The thought that riots would be revolutionary—not against some weak backwater state but against a global order of production and exchange—has it backward.
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Luoyang, in Henan Province, is an arid backwater, but its position in the Yellow River Basin made it one of the cradles of Chinese civilization.
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Just 27 miles outside the country's capital city of Dhaka, it's a far cry from the common images of backwater sweatshops of the Global South.
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In the 18th century, the capital of the empire was moved from Esfahan to Tehran, letting the famed "glittering city" languish into a provincial backwater.
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After years as a sleepy federal backwater, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission became one of Wall Street's most aggressive watchdogs during the Barack Obama administration.
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In Bama, once an impoverished backwater, the local government has turned centenarians into celebrities, posting their portraits on billboards and building their homes into shrines.
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Born in 1930 in what used to be called a "colonial backwater" by the center of power, he inherited the psychic deluge many flailed under.
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The year is 1963 and the city is Saigon, still a humid backwater but about to become the red-hot center of a geopolitical firestorm.
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Russian Premier League games do not attract vast television audiences in the countries where they are shown and are often consigned to backwater cable channels.
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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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A video posted by Steven Jeffrey Chris John shows police firing projectiles and tear gas at a large group of protesters on the Backwater Bridge.
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The narrative "glides from Paris to Tokyo to backwater Mexico to the American suburbs, all with the speed of a broadband signal," writes The Metrograph.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads LOS ANGELES — When the Otis Art Institute opened in 90453, Los Angeles was part metropolis, part backwater, and part frontier.
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In just over two decades, the city has transformed from a desert backwater port to a thriving metropolis with the third-most skyscrapers in the world.
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For now, the barge remains submerged -- but it's not the only thing working to curb backwater flooding, according to Ignacio Harrouch, the CPRA's chief of operations.
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The history of the meal goes back to Korea's days as an agrarian backwater, when there wasn't much to eat, and what there was wasn't great.
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Located 21996 miles from North Korea and the world's most heavily fortified border, Pyeongchang was known mainly as a mountain backwater that produced potatoes and cattle.
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This triumph made him a big star in his hometown, Kryvyi Rih, a provincial backwater built around a string of iron ore mines and steel factories.
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But midway through, Rosi's movie is fully its own thing — a 20th-century saga played out in a remote backwater and compressed into a single year.
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China, an agrarian backwater 40 years ago, is home to the world's single largest group of internet users and some of its most valuable internet companies.
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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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Under the oversight of executive director Warren LeGarie, the NBA Summer League has gone from a goofy half-official backwater to an increasingly grown-up event.
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Ireland is a small country, with about 4.5 million inhabitants*; it's a little bit remote; and historically it's traditionally been a bit of an economic backwater.
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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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The county sheriff's department erected the barricade at the end of October, ostensibly because the Backwater Bridge had been damaged by fires during protests against the pipeline.
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Their uncanny movies seem to document the after-hours life of a musty "wonder cabinet" held by a provincial museum moldering away in some once Habsburg backwater.
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I spent a pleasant couple of hours talking about favorite books with another traveler, before he got off at Alappuzha, the main starting point for backwater cruises.
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In June, a Yale Law School graduate and Silicon Valley executive born in the backwater Appalachian region published a book about the white working class in America.
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Unless you happen to be a reincarnated 18th century socialite or grew up in a Louisiana backwater, you've probably never had the pleasure of eating turtle soup.
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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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From the perspective of the story, Lincoln Clay's death is at the hands of some backwater racists with shotguns in the collapse of a building crime empire.
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What was an agrarian backwater 40 years ago is home to the world's single largest group of internet users and some of its most valuable internet companies.
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In the movie, Wakanda disguises vast technological resources from the world, and white people who aren't in the know refer to it dismissively as a primitive backwater.
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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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When Ms. Provost started at Border Patrol, it was tiny backwater agency at the Justice Department with fewer than 5,000 agents patrolling the northern and southern borders.
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The avocado industry has brought much-needed economic growth and jobs to the former backwater, Bosch said, noting that, with avocado investment, "this area has improved considerably".
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GIOVANNI RUSSONELLO Kllo is Chloe Kaul and Simon Lam, cousins from Melbourne, Australia, and "Virtue" is a sterling new single from their album, "Backwater," due in October.
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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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The native New Yorker arrived in Washington in the early 1960s, a time when the District was still considered a cultural backwater with only limited theatrical opportunities.
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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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Law enforcement continues to maintain a presence near the Backwater Bridge north of the main camp to prevent activists from entering the area, now considered a crime scene.
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Now Los Angeles is experiencing its own real-life Cinderella story, as the area's technology scene has been transformed from backwater to boomtown in just a few years.
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With no functioning banks, schools, or even a post office, Naraha has reverted to the rural backwater that Yanai escaped 50 years ago as a high school dropout.
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An excellent novel named Kenobi told the story of what the Ewan MacGregor version of Obi-Wan did during his first year on the backwater of sandy Tatooine.
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Each new season of six episodes adapts a new creepypasta, those supposedly true, terrifying tales that lurk in backwater corners of the internet, like the subreddit r/nosleep.
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The new Lisbon resembles "a speeded-up east London," as the city transforms from off-the-grid backwater to Airbnb-infested production hub of the international creative elite.
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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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Trump resurrected the issue from a policy backwater and has shaken the global economic order this year with new tariffs on solar panels, washing machines, steel and aluminum.
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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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Backwater Bridge was the site of clashes between law enforcement and protesters and barricades were erected on it to keep protesters from reaching the site of the pipeline.
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Over three decades, he rose from an assembly line worker to an electronics business owner, following China's rise from an economic backwater to the world's No. 2 economy.
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In the pretty colonial backwater of Hecelchakán, we ate breakfast at an enormous rotunda-like taco stand in the central plaza, famous enough not to require a name.
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It has, in theory, turned this ex-Soviet backwater into the most progressive blockchain jurisdiction in the world—"like a Seoul inside Pyongyang," says one Belarusian crypto-entrepreneur.
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Mr. Xiang oversaw an industry that has gone from a cash-rich but sleepy backwater to a major player on the global deal-making scene in recent years.
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In the first three (of six) episodes, the complacency of the colonial backwater is literally blown apart by a rocket-propelled grenade, and British casualties mount from there.
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The pearl-diving backwater turned Las Vegas of the Middle East has all the hallmarks of a classic GTA game: fast cars, iconic architecture, and audacious criminal activity.
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Under the 31-year leadership of Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew from 1959 to 1990, Singapore grew from an impoverished backwater to one of the world's most advanced economies.
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In this under-developed backwater of eastern European football, the signing of an English player with more than 30 Premier League appearances to his name was a significant coup.
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In hindsight, this was surprising: It would be weeks before it and Macklemore went national, and even with the internet, Whitman College remains a bit of a cultural backwater.
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Backwater Bridge was the site of multiple clashes between law enforcement and protesters and barricades were erected on it to keep protesters from reaching the site of the pipeline.
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The North Dakota Department of Transportation closed the Backwater Bridge, which crosses Cantapeta Creek north of the Standing Rock Sioux tribe's camp, after vehicles were burned on Oct. 27.
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Perhaps in his polytheistic mindset, he assumed that his gods, which had seen fit to give him yet another glorious victory, were more powerful than this backwater Jewish god.
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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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In its time possibly the largest and most cosmopolitan city in the world, Xi'an (Xijing in the novel) has, in Jia's description, become a dilapidated backwater by the 1980s.
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For Brunello Cucinelli, a farmer's son from a rural backwater in Umbria, the path to international success and a great fortune began almost as improbably — with a single sweater.
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In the piece French specifically references Chris Pratt, an evangelical Christian cruelly consigned by godless Hollywood progressives to that obscure backwater of the film industry, the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
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This approach is seen as crucial in having enabled China to lift hundreds of millions of citizens out of poverty and turn itself from global backwater into world power.
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One was Alexander Grigoriev, a Russian financier who controlled Promsberbank—a now defunct institution, based in a Russian backwater called Podolsk, which counted Igor Putin as a board member.
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Mr. Ohana, who was just appointed this country's first openly gay cabinet minister, was then a 24-year-old from a desert backwater making his way in Tel Aviv.
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According to the CIA's World Factbook, North Korea is mostly a struggling, agrarian backwater that just happens to have a bellicose cult leader running it from its biggest city.
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China emerged from an economic backwater in the 1980s to become a poster child for economic growth in early 2000s thanks to the country's integration into the global value chain.
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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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Murder cases have been rare in the Chinese territory since Portugal ceded control of what had been a colonial backwater on the heel of China's southern coast 20 years ago.
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There was joy in the streets of Foshan's backwater Gaoming district in mid-April when Guangdong Communist Party secretary Hu Chunhua affirmed plans to build an airport there by 2022.
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Susana Polo, Polygon Pursuit of the Skrull terrorist Talos brings Vers to the backwater planet of Earth, where she runs into mid-level SHIELD agent Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson).
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It decided to favour people who look good on paper: a young PhD, say, or a greybeard with rare skills who is prepared to live in a snake-infested backwater.
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A standoff unfolded beside a bridge known as the Backwater Bridge, where protesters set fire to wooden boards and signs and held off the line of officers over many hours.
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During most election cycles, Putnam County, N.Y., is a sleepy backwater, with few donations of more than $1,000 coming into the local Democratic committee in the decade beginning in 2004.
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During that period I watched business reporting change from a sleepy backwater on the back of the Sports section into a juggernaut, a force that controls the global conversation. Why?
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How exactly did Hamilton rise from the deprivations of his childhood in the island backwater of St. Croix to become a storied founding father: an aide-de-camp of Gen.
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Imitative skills are essential in a place where storytelling, and the caricaturing of your fellow citizens, is what transforms a seemingly uneventful backwater into a soap opera of endless fascination.
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Singapore's rapid growth from colonial backwater to low-tax, financial hub has lifted all boats, and its poor are still far better off than they would be in neighboring countries.
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Albright, four years Soutine's junior, worked at a time when even New York was still an artistic backwater; Chicago, his home for his entire professional life, was a true hinterland.
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Miami may no longer be an art market backwater, but it's still struggling to solidify its new status as a thriving cultural capital ranking alongside New York and Los Angeles.
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The confrontation happened at Backwater Bridge, on a highway linking the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation and Bismarck, N.D. Burned-out trucks and a police barricade have made the bridge impassable.
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In the 1920s the Double Dealer, a literary magazine, was launched in New Orleans as a voice for modernist literature, and to show that the South was not a cultural backwater.
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As one of the country's most eminent leaders, he was pugnacious, uncompromising and intolerant of dissent, but turned Malaysia from a sleepy backwater into one of the world's modern industrialized nations.
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Making Vine more attractive to creators Vine is viewed as a kind of backwater internally at Twitter, which has lavished attention on its live-streaming app Periscope as Vine has languished.
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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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And even though Washington was something of quiet, backwater burg these days, with all the political action and players of the Northamerican Union centralized in Vancouver, this place was still jammed.
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I added a paragraph of connective tissue to get my protagonist out of the backwater of Washington, D.C., and into the war in Europe that he is so eager to fight.
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There is also plenty of noise, residents say, from the throngs of visitors who prowl the neighborhood, turning what was once a sleepy, postindustrial backwater into a somewhat unlikely tourist attraction.
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In a special series of articles, The Times is examining how an isolated, impoverished backwater evolved into the most significant rival to the U.S. since the fall of the Soviet Union.
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On Friday, the rally organizers met with law enforcement on the Backwater Bridge, the site of two of the most heated confrontations between police and protesters in the last several weeks.
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Your character usually starts in some hidden vault or other isolated backwater, emerges into a post-nuclear-war hellscape, and becomes a wandering white knight, omnicidal monster, or something in between.
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Lucille Ball and Mary Tyler Moore both produced their own shows (and, in the case of Moore, many others) but remained relegated to what was then the entertainment backwater of television.
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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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I had not been to the city in four decades, and in that time it had grown from a wooden-shack backwater into a sprawling grid of a hundred thousand people.
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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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Now, it becomes harder and harder to take yet another story where some backwater local discovers his or her hidden power thanks to the timely intervention of a more knowledgeable passerby.
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It's a feast of details at every location, from the idyllic backwater of Kephallonia, where your hero begins their story, to the sprawling, bustling Athens just approaching the zenith of its glory.
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BUDAPEST, Feb 10 (Reuters) - Fears of an impact from the coronavirus outbreak mostly bypassed emerging Europe early on Monday, with the region considered a comparative backwater, enabling most markets to rise slightly.
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In March this year, the 27.7-year-old walked into a diamond dealer's store on a dusty street in Kono, a potholed backwater 24 miles east of Sierra Leone's capital of Freetown.
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Protesters and law enforcement faced off early Thursday morning on Backwater Bridge for the third straight night, with demonstrators throwing snowballs at officers and climbing onto a barricade before being pushed back.
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Starting in 2000, when it was under Democratic control, North Carolina's legislature passed a series of reforms that transformed it from a voting-rights backwater to a national leader in ballot access.
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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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Although 92, he still holds sway among many rural Malays as the man who, during his 22-year rule, transformed a post-colonial backwater with a drive for modernization and national pride.
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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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They included raising and modifying highway bridges that impeded the flow of river water, and upgrading levees and pumps to manage excess backwater flooding in the lower reaches of the river basins.
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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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The social justice movement for the liberation of transgender people is being met by backwater lawmakers who value their ignorant and prejudicial views more than the safety or survival of transgender children.
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Sitting in this moldering restaurant in the middle of this backwater village on the outskirts of Kunming, Zhao Jie and I feel like dynastic royalty as we enjoy the tofu's rotten goodness.
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A possession of the Spanish Empire, then ruled by the reactionary Bourbons until Italian Independence, in 1861, it then became an impoverished, provincial backwater, its historic center full of baroque artistic masterpieces.
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Two years ago, Australia's Moya Dodd lost her seat as Asia's female representative to Kiron, then a completely unknown candidate from Bangladesh, a soccer backwater where women's soccer was almost non-existent.
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Ghosn, then in his mid-50s, had spent two decades in the relative business backwater of Michelin selling tires before jumping to Renault and forming an initially much-derided alliance with Nissan.
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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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But with no obligation to operate from Horgos or even in Xinjiang, it is unlikely this policy will create jobs or bring money to what has long been an economic backwater, say experts.
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In the long run, then, it could cement Mexico's status as a major car manufacturing center for the global market, while turning the US into something of a regional backwater for car manufacturing.
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Frankfurt, which long grappled with an unfavorable backwater image, promotes itself as a stable city for banks seeking to relocate, while the German government and politicians have discreetly welcomed those looking to move.
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Her heroic gesture of independence and willpower ends with her struggling to survive in various backwater towns, using the tricks of her trade to bamboozle local officials and squat in a mayoral mansion.
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The Backwater Bridge has been closed since late October, when activists clashed with police in riot gear and set two trucks on fire, prompting authorities to forcibly shut down a protesters encampment nearby.
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TO THIS day the trained eye can still spot the occasional boxy Chinese tractor lumbering around rural Albania, a reminder of the time when this Balkan backwater was China's biggest champion in Europe.
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During his 36 years as the head of state, his country of half a million inhabitants wedged in between Belgium, Germany and France, turned from an industrial backwater into an international financial hub.
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It's an edited excerpt from his debut novel of the same name, Starr Creek (Lazy Fascist Press), and it feels like the perfect blast of backwater Lovecraftian lore for our Trumptastic moment. Enjoy.
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In some pieces, the water seems stagnant around the ankles, as in the 2014 woodcut "Backwater Blues," in which a woman dips her broom in the water as if to sweep it away.
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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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But there are a raft of other reasons MBS isn't shedding Saudi's old image of a cultural backwater, typified by a society stuck in outdated attitudes and practices governed by mega-rich princes.
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In Zhang's lifetime, China has gone from an economic backwater to one of the world's largest economies, with a population that has, for a large part, embraced the rapid pace of technological change.
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In a separate demonstration, this time at Backwater Bridge, along highway 1806 to Bismarck, police allege protesters cut a security wire, removed fencing material and dismantled some of the lights illuminating the bridge.
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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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This kind of intelligence isn't as sexy as a general AI that anticipates your every need — but it's here today, it works, and it makes Google Apps look like a neglected backwater by comparison.
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Between recounts, Elias established himself as a top Democratic voice at the Federal Election Commission (FEC), an ordinarily sleepy bureaucratic backwater that underwent enormous changes in the decade following McCain-Feingold campaign finance regulation.
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When a film opens in Grapevine, Texas, a week before it shows in Amarillo, let alone in some musty backwater like New York City, you can be sure that local pride is at stake.
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Read more: The history of the CEA The Commerce Department's stated mission is "to create the conditions for economic growth and opportunity," but in practice the department has been viewed as a Cabinet backwater.
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From its gun-slung backwater towns in the north to its neon-bleached cityscape in the south, the Los Santos skyline cuts an impressive figure against the seemingly endless ocean that hugs its shores.
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Except the assailants swarming the city via dropped pods from above are a mix of humans and robots, sparking blue electricity as their American backwater mailbox heads are popped like Monster cans in lava.
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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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But the small Baltic nation was still a tennis backwater when Sevastova learned the game on red clay in Liepaja, a city now best known as the hometown of the Knicks star Kristaps Porzingis.
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Corruption, bribery, bottomless vanity, sexual predatoriness and incivility to all, excepting those more powerful than you — such are the ways of human nature in the muddy little backwater in which Gogol's play is set.
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Far from the hopeless backwater depicted in most histories, McMeekin argues, Russia's economy was surging before the war, with a growth rate of 10 percent a year — like China in the early 21st century.
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Unlike the petulant Jane, who dreams of rodeo stardom and chafes at their backwater life, Heidi seems at ease in this place where the soft light and bleached landscapes can flicker with inchoate menace.
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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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It became a sort of legend — both for its quality and for its backwater publishing story: Roy, unlike so many other successful Indian writers in English, didn't live abroad or attend an elite college.
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Volland's thesis — that voices in Chinese literature from 1945 to 1965 were aware of, participated in, and helped shape international literary conversations — bucks notions that communist China was an intellectual police state and literary backwater.
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Domestically produced cars formed a key part of Mahathir's strategy to turn Southeast Asia's third-largest economy from an agricultural backwater to an industrialized nation during his first tenure as premier from 1981 to 2003.
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Rather, he thinks a large, powerful carbon emitter remaining in the accord uncooperatively poses a greater threat to climate action than a large, powerful carbon emitter embracing its new image as a coal-loving backwater.
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Mahathir was known for his strongarm, sometimes pugnacious style of rule intolerant of dissent from 1981 to 13, but also for transforming his Southeast Asian country from a sleepy backwater into a modern industrialized nation.
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As the city once seen as a low-cost government backwater comes into its own as a European business center, office supply has not been able to keep up with the sharp rise in demand.
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Though Jasmine Shepard conceded that consolidating the high schools would ultimately be a good thing, she bristled at the perception that Cleveland was an out-of-touch backwater stuck in the era of Jim Crow.
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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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This is the atmosphere of intrigue and opulence for which the capital of Qatar, a dust-blown backwater until a few decades ago, has become famous as the great freewheeling hub of the Middle East.
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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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The track's demise, a closing that animal rights advocates say is long overdue, in part reflects the transformation of Macau from a colonial backwater into a popular tourist destination for China's fast-growing middle class.
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Officials say Qatar, a former backwater that is the world's largest liquefied natural gas exporter, has paired sensible spending with awareness of local tastes as it has evolved into a cultural hub in the Middle East.
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Then, an infusion of cash from the Defense Department in the 1960s helped transform seismology "from a sleepy, poorly supported scientific backwater to a field flooded with new funds, instruments, professionals, students, and excitement," Sykes writes.
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China's rise over the last generation has been impressive, with the country moving from the periphery to the center of the global system, and climbing from impoverished backwater to a position of substantial wealth and power.
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Mike Pompeo's visit to Paraguay last weekend — the first by an American secretary of state in half a century — marked a new turn in the U.S. relationship with a country long seen as a friendly backwater.
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Rivers such as the Comite near East Baton Rouge and the Tickfaw near Livingston were expected to keep rising through Monday morning, causing more backwater flooding from rivers and bayous like the surge that impacted Prairieville.
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Roughly the film's first half — when a young man named Luke Skywalker is bored out of his skull because he's stuck on the desert planet Tatooine — could be about any kid in any backwater town anywhere.
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After Belykh's party dissolved itself, the Kremlin nominated him for the post of governor of the Kirov region, a provincial backwater in the foothills of the Ural mountains about 1,000 km (620 miles) east of Moscow.
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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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A village backwater a hundred years ago, Dire Dawa grew over the century into a major transit hub for Ethiopian exports, not least khat, a mild herbal stimulant, which is farmed intensively in the surrounding hills.
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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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The main concern on Burrow's mind: Though L.S.U. had the pedigree to command the spotlight and the talent to breed expectations, it had for years been an offensive backwater, a place where championship ambitions often died.
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Though most of its characters spent their often unhappy existences in the same Illinois backwater, they are fluent in the far-flung vernaculars of Appalachian ballads, Southern gospel, Tennessee bluegrass and even New Orleans honky-tonk.
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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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There is an early moment when the two main characters, Bayek and Aya, genuinely think they've successfully avenged their murdered son and can go back to being a happy family in the backwater of an aging empire.
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The company says that its service can now achieve backups of up to 100 Mbps, though in the infrastructure backwater that is most the U.S. in 2017, not everybody has access to these kinds of fast connections.
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Melanie Schure of Fort Collins, Colorado, notes how barriers and vehicles remain on the other side of the Backwater Bridge, the area where law enforcement and demonstrators have met in ways that, at times, have become violent.
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We left off with Tess (Ella Purnell) last summer when the NYC newbie was finally awarded her stripes alongside the title of backwater at the restaurant, but tensions with her coworkers were at an all-time high.
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He turned this from a stagnant backwater into a dynamic network of local groups, putting on parties, pub nights, bike rides and various other opportunities for teenagers and 20-somethings to get it on with one another.
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The only curious elements of Clattenburg's exit are the timing and the destination, but the latter—a job vacancy in a soccer backwater with enough gobs of money to make it worth anyone's while—answers the former.
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Despite being near rivers that tend to cause backwater flooding, the parish had been largely spared -- thanks to a 400-foot-long sunken barge in nearby Bayou Chene, according to the parish's emergency preparedness director, John Boudreaux.
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North Korea, a technological backwater, appears to have hacked Sony Pictures' emails in 2014 as retaliation for making a movie that mocked Kim Jong Un. The information was leaked out in dribbles and, eventually, dumped to WikiLeaks.
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Then, in, 212646, with more than 3000 years at Bankers Trust under his belt, Marin relocated to the asset management team at Bear Stearns, which back then was "a sleepy backwater," according to The New York Times.
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Vice President Hamid Ansari last week declared the coastal state of 34 million - popular among tourists for its backwater canals and lagoons - had achieved its goal to educate its population to the primary standard of grade 4.
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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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There are plenty of small resorts along its sub-tropical coastline, and a series of river communities called the backwater that feature wooden houseboats furnished with cooks and nice furniture that provide a base for family vacations.
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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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Bong's one-of-a-kind policier, "Memories of Murder," takes a tonally audacious approach to the investigation into South Korea's first serial killer, a predator who raped and murdered 10 women in a rural backwater in 1986.
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On the way to a vacation with his girlfriend, a schoolteacher (Gary Bond) is stranded in the fictional Australian outback town of Bundanyabba, known to everyone as the Yabba, which he initially regards as a disgusting backwater.
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Portraiture is considered to be a bit of an old-fashioned backwater in the larger art world, so there will be people who sniff at the whole idea of making a traditional likeness of an important woman.
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This is a homage to Dubai's transformation from desert backwater to a global financial hub, for which Emiratis still express gratitude to their ruling families, crediting them with putting an end to the harsh existence of their forebears.
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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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Index-tracking ETFs, once considered an industry backwater, are now responsible for the lion's share of the billions in cash BlackRock pulls in annually and a source of consternation to traditionalist stock pickers who typically charge higher fees.
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"At this time Londinium lay near the edge of the Empire but, far from a being a provincial backwater, it had grown into an important centre for commerce and governance, interconnected with the wider Roman world," they added.
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R&B spent the decade evolving from a critical backwater to the province of serious art, largely by swapping out the alcohol-soaked neon clubscapes that ruled the radio for the druggy, brooding introspection that ruled the blogs.
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Alexey emigrated from Russia as a child, but he did not grow up in Brighton Beach, only heard the rumors (backwater dump), which he found not at all fitting to the place he stumbled upon as an adult.
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Dubai is one of seven emirates that make up the United Arab Emirates, and the city has seen dizzying growth in recent decades as it has transformed from a desert backwater to a sprawling business and transportation hub.
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That approach has worked spectacularly well over the last three decades, turning English soccer's top league from a forgotten backwater into a market leader, the producer of some of the most valuable live sports content in the world.
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Together with Pakistan and India, the country is making South Asia a hotspot for liquefied natural gas (LNG) demand, attracting investment from gas producers and power plant builders after years of the country being considered an energy backwater.
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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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That means that, in official documents from the White House to the lowliest backwater office, the federal government will now refer to Indiana residents by their chosen nickname, rather than as "Indianans," a term few inside the state use.
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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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They met in 1986, when General dela Rosa graduated from the Philippine Military Academy and Mr. Duterte was appointed vice mayor of Davao City, then a provincial backwater with rampant crime and bloody rebellions by communists and Muslim separatists.
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Film Series On the way to a vacation with his girlfriend, a schoolteacher (Gary Bond) is stranded in the fictional Australian outback town of Bundanyabba, known to everyone as the Yabba, which he initially regards as a disgusting backwater.
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As the world of financial technology has gone from a geeky backwater to the forefront of innovation, regulators are following along by seeking a role in overseeing how the firms operate and determining who may be abusing their services.
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In backwater towns like Iquitos or Pucallpa, aggressive English-speaking touts offering ayahuasca ceremonies greet tourists literally as they come off the boat, while in indigenous markets a liter-size bottle of the powerful tea fetches as much as $100.
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Unlike the way it's presented a few weeks later at Disney's D23 conference, the model is clearly shown as segments of a wooden platform that have been built up by Disney's engineers and artists to form the backwater planet Batuu.
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An estimated 400 protesters mounted the Backwater Bridge and attempted to force their way past police in what the Morton County Sheriff's Department initially described as an "ongoing riot," the latest in a series of demonstrations against the Dakota Access Pipeline.
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Long the sort of impoverished backwater that people left in search of better lives, Henan has in recent years enjoyed the fruits of an economic boom that has raised incomes and given people a taste of middle class lifestyles and aspirations.
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And as one of the medics who goes out to the Backwater Bridge during "actions" -- when water protectors walk out to one side of the bridge to stand in opposition to police on the other side -- she's seen far worse.
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Despite Mahathir being mocked by Najib for his old age and authoritarian record, his reputation as a statesman who transformed a Southeast Asian backwater into a modern economy helped soothe voters&apos fears of possible chaos under a new government.
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From happiness to heartbreak, and all the way back again, each of Trudy & The Romance's songs feels like a Richard Curtis vignette, delivered with a doo-wop bounce that wouldn't feel out of place in a dusty, backwater drive-thru cinema.
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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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A joint statement from several activist groups said protesters Sunday were trying to remove burned vehicles blocking Backwater Bridge in order to restore access to the nearby Standing Rock Sioux encampments so emergency services and local traffic can move freely.
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In a paper titled "Too Young to Die", the non-governmental society picked out some of the first high-rise buildings that helped transform Singapore from a British colonial backwater to the global trade and financial center it is today.
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And lastly, Hunt also notes that all of these records were sitting not in some dark web backwater, but on one of the most popular cloud storage sites—until it got taken down—and then on a public hacking site.
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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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"Mod Brits" have long been regarded as a regional backwater of the art market, but recently artists with international reputations like Henry Moore, Barbara Hepworth, Ben Nicholson and Bridget Riley have attracted a broader spectrum of buyers, particularly from Asia.
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The preëminent example in "Nature's Mutiny" is Amsterdam, which went from being a sleepy backwater of the Habsburg Empire to a thriving, economically dynamic center of rapidly expanding commercial networks, with a population that grew tenfold in just over a century.
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Now, it remains unclear how much authority these Cabinet secretaries will have to actually determine policy in the new administration — President Obama's Cabinet famously became a sort of backwater, with major policy initiatives largely being run out of the White House.
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This remote corner of Indonesia is set to be transformed from a forest backwater on the island of Borneo to a global city - a new capital of a country whose 260 million people make it the world's fourth most populous.
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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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By nightfall, the Ukrainian town of Novi Sanzhary, population 221,214, would be turned upside down, thrust into a state of panic and chaos stemming from residents' fears that the novel coronavirus was going to bring death to this previously unheralded backwater.
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Once a sparsely populated enclave and political backwater, Prince William County — 30 miles southwest of Washington — has grown at a torrid pace in recent decades as families in search of good schools and a front yard pushed into the exurbs.
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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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They must cover the legislative branch through the prism of the Constitution, to see Congress not as a bumbling backwater of policy making but as a coequal branch of government, designed as a check on the power of the executive.
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While not all the books have proved to be long-term sellers, their collective impact contributed mightily to the transformation of a once sleepy publishing backwater into a cultural force with influence stretching from Wall Street to Hollywood and beyond.
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Arriving in this Burgundian backwater, the one-legged Capitaine Colette promptly fell in love with Sido, whose gray eyes were, according to Colette, "the color of rain," and the couple married in 1865 after Sido's first husband drank himself to death.
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Before these reforms were put in place, whenever a customer swiped a card, local beverage businesses were plunged into a murky backwater of price-fixing where big banks used their muscle to squash competitors and charge outrageous fees for their services.
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She returned to her family in Cornwall to give birth and I thought it would be like her to fix on a Cornish name, a quixotic and almost paradoxical choice given how much she wanted to escape her backwater roots.
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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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While analysts expect a boost to infrastructure investment in what is now still a sleepy backwater, the focus on the Xiongan New Area, which will take on some functions of the capital city, will also be at the expense of other cities.
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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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" Like a figure in a malevolent Irish fairy tale, a mysterious stranger appears one day seemingly out of nowhere on a bank of a tumultuous river in western Ireland, in a "freezing backwater that passes for a town and is called Cloonoila.
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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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It is home to the glitzy emirate of Dubai, which transformed from a desert backwater to a global financial hub, where thousands of Arab expatriates flock to seek professional and entrepreneurial opportunities not available in as much supply in other unstable Arab countries.
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Garbus has always loved lo-fi fragility for the way its patchiness can make listeners uncomfortable — her erratic juxtapositions evoke a sonic backwater whose ingredients fail to click together and are more interesting that way — and here she goes overboard with this approach.
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In January, he is set to become chairman of the House Natural Resources Committee, a once backwater panel, and he plans to elevate it into a central arena for Democrats to clash with the Trump administration, over both environmental policy and corruption.
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In the meantime, her obsession pulls the plot together, along with her ecstatic, idealized longing for the Albanian capital Tirana, far from the provincial backwater where she and her bourgeois family are sentenced to internal exile for their ties to the banished monarchy.
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The title "Trapped" is in part a reference to life in a provincial backwater, and the story takes place in the shadow of Iceland's financial meltdown nearly a decade ago, which is an evergreen source of misery and greed for mystery stories.
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Before the polls opened on Thursday morning, the D.U.P. — a socially conservative, fundamentalist Protestant bloc that is fiercely loyal to dreams of Britain's lost empire — was merely the largest party in a small, inward-looking and mostly neglected backwater of the United Kingdom.
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But the first indications of the direction our society would take had occurred already, a few years earlier, in the interplay between a very noisy, increasingly dominant aspect of American culture — advertising — and a relatively quiet backwater of American culture: the courts.
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The dozens arrested belong to what the Morton County Sheriff's Department described in a statement as a "rogue group" that had set up camp on private property south of the Backwater Bridge, the site of previous standoffs between demonstrators and the police.
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Singapore's remarkable rise from a sleepy, British-colonial backwater to a gleaming financial capital, whose banks now challenge Switzerland's as a global destination for secret money, was due in no small part to the country's unquestioned adherence to Lee Kuan Yew's vision.
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The museum would like visitors to judge Nixon the man, which is why it includes a sculpture of a favourite dog curled up in an armchair and tours of the modest cottage where he was born, back when Yorba Linda was a rural backwater.
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The five Labour MPs are certainly right that Bagehot would have worried about the transfer of power from Britain to the EU. As a creature of his time, he regarded continental Europe as a political backwater, governed by either unaccountable bureaucracies or wilful despots.
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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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Born to a well-off family, he was educated at a Harare private school but sent to a rural backwater in his last year after failing mock exams, an experience he said opened his eyes to the widespread poverty in the former British colony.
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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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Sure, a full-sized skiff can accommodate more than one person, and the Rackham AeroBōte isn't cheap, but if you like to fish, and you live anywhere near a good, calm fishing hole, fresh or salt, there's nothing better for your skinny (or backwater) adventuring.
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The demise of the stadium, which saw massive crowds at its peak in the 1960s, comes as China seeks to cut Macau&aposs dependence on the high-rollers who helped propel the city&aposs transformation from a seedy backwater into a global gambling powerhouse.
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It tells the story of three idealists who fight as partisans during the Nazi occupation and follows them over decades with the backdrop of events such as strikes, labor unrest and terrorism as Italy was transformed from an agricultural backwater to a world industrial power.
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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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"I started thinking: Here's this woman who made this incredible ascent from the backwater of Eastern Europe, where it was actually illegal for girls to attend high school, to become one of the very first women at a university physics program in Europe," Benedict says.
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The last thing I want to do is assume that we're going to be racially profiled, or that we're the focus of some backwater bigotry, but it's difficult to remain pragmatic when you end up in a room behind an FBI building explaining your purpose in Alaska.
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During the nearly 20 years I knew him, I never ceased to marvel that my unrelentingly humble friend was the same linguistic powerhouse who kept goading this city into becoming more than the sleepy backwater of country music and Bible publishing it believed itself to be.
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The horror genre, once a Hollywood backwater, has become an artistic hotbed — a corner of the mainstream movie business where filmmakers have been able to take risks with original concepts, largely because they cost so little compared to the "tent pole" fantasies studios now obsess over.
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If Shannon and company are having a tough time of it in a Mexican backwater, so, in his own fluttery way, is Garry Essendine, the vainglorious actor at the epicenter of "Present Laughter," the Noël Coward play newly revived at the Old Vic through Aug. 10.
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That background of insurgency rooted in backwater parts of the Arab world's poorest state forged the group into a strong fighting force but gave it few skilled politicians, intellectuals or technocrats — a weakness glaringly apparent during a recent visit by New York Times journalists in Sana.
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For the 250 or so years of the British Empire, this worked pretty well — as members of a United Kingdom, Scots were essentially junior partners in a glamorous game of global conquest, whereas an independent Scotland would have been a bit of a tiny, cold backwater.
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Perhaps the most famous example is the Firefly universe, in which we see rapid and presumably faster-than-light space travel and a thriving interstellar economy, sitting alongside dozens of "border worlds" akin to the American West making their way with horses, carts, and shootouts in backwater saloons.
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Kerala is a part of India, but it very much feels like a completely different country, with lush green tropics filled with backwater brackish lagoons running in parallel to the Arabian Sea, near 100% literacy rates and a focus on health that has become the envy of the world.
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Once a sleepy backwater, with its colonial-era hotels, waterside banyan trees, slightly sleazy night life and occasional gangland killings, Macau has tidied up and diversified its act since its return to China in 1999 with huge new resorts, music festivals and even an international fireworks display competition.
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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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The Art of Collecting ROME — Parma and its region were an artistic backwater until the end of the 15th century, but then produced two artistic geniuses: Antonio Allegri, known as Correggio after the town of his birth, in or around 1489, and Francesco Mazzola, nicknamed Parmigianino, born in 13.
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A shark, just minding its own business for now, in 8 Bit Bastard's 'Sharks' documentary From its gun-slung backwater towns in the north to its neon-bleached cityscape in the south, the Los Santos skyline cuts an impressive figure against the seemingly endless ocean that hugs its shores.
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They'll mention Cleveland's old reputation as a symbol of backwater parochialism and Rust Belt decline, and how all that has changed with a resurgent economy, the improved fortunes of the Cavaliers and also the Indians, and the Republican National Committee's decision to hold its convention here last year.
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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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"French Guiana has always had a rather unfortunate reputation as an economic backwater whose general neglect by French officials is only periodically interrupted by outbreaks of political protest and acts of violence by various local groups demanding greater economic investment in the region," Mr. Toth wrote in an email.
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We've led a silent march where we prayed on the Backwater Bridge in front of the police; we offered them some water that we have prayed over; we've led marches to free Red Fawn; we've led actions that were farther out near the pipeline, when we were still allowed access.
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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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Check for new geofiltersSnapchat geo-filters may not have reached whichever backwater you happen to live in yet, but don't forget to check for them while you're out traveling or when you find yourself at special events like music festivals—a swipe to the left is enough to find them.10.
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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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"Their underlying belief appears to be that Britain - the world's fifth largest economy and a nation with a great history of trading across the globe - would be an economic backwater if it wasn't for Brussels taking control of our trade deals," Vote Leave chief executive Matthew Elliott said on Tuesday.
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Using data from the British Election Study, Will Jennings and Gerry Stoker of the University of Southampton have shown that the rift between "cosmopolitan" and "backwater" places has grown since 1997: on everything from immigration and equal opportunities to national identity and trust in politics, Clacton and Cambridge are drifting apart.
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The drama of the failed coup mostly played out across two urban spaces and the skies overhead — Istanbul, the sprawling megacity that symbolizes the country's past as the seat of Islamic empire, and Ankara, the utilitarian capital, a onetime Anatolian backwater built up by modern Turkey's secular founder, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk.
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In 6403, a Hong Kong-registered company signed a 2640-year lease with the Laotian government to set up a 26.3,22.5-hectare (about 6.3 square miles) special economic zone known as Boten Golden City, a trade and tourism hub intended to kick-start development in this backwater region of northern Laos.
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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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Mr. Leone is believed to have been the first official to install a "Welcome to Brooklyn" sign at one of the borough's entry points, as if declaring that Brooklyn was more than the outer-borough backwater some perceived it to be: It was a place that could hold its own.
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The plan, backed by Democratic megadonors like Donald Sussman and the Soros family as well as small-dollar donors giving online via ActBlue, represents a sea change for the Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee, a former backwater in Democratic politics that has transformed as the party grappled with the importance of redistricting.
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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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Erdogan and his supporters see an executive presidency - a Turkish take on the system in the United States or France - as a guarantee against the sort of fractious coalition politics that hampered Turkey's development in the 1990s, when it was an economic backwater with little clout on the world stage.
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"One of the issues there is that they (Belarusian soldiers) think that if there is a union with Russia, or Belarus gets incorporated in Russia, they'll be not only far better paid but they will become part of a military superpower instead of being this sort of backwater army," said Aron.
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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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James Parks Morton, who in 25 years as dean of the Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine in Upper Manhattan transformed it from a religious backwater into a vibrant center for the arts, the homeless, circus performers, household pets, endangered animals and interfaith engagement, died on Saturday at his home in Manhattan.
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And they want to build on the tenacity of veteran researchers like Geoffrey Hinton, Richard Sutton and Yoshua Bengio, who developed techniques that opened the door to remarkable improvements in an A.I. technology called machine learning, even as many computer scientists and the tech industry considered their work to be an unpromising backwater.
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They introduced new characters and centered the story around them, but that story was remarkably close to a retelling of A New Hope, complete with new Empire and Rebellion analogues facing off, a new Death Star to destroy, a new Luke Skywalker equivalent trying to escape a new backwater desert planet, and so forth.
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She'd taken a risk travelling to the city by herself, such a risk that accomplishing it had emboldened her to try other new things, like the voice-recognition software on her smartphone, that newfangled device purchased for her by an older child who'd grown tired of having a mother who lived in a technological backwater.
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In a statement late on Sunday, the Morton County Sheriff's Department characterized the demonstration as an "ongoing riot," releasing photos that it said showed protesters "setting fires and using aggressive tactics" while trying to dismantle a police barricade on Backwater Bridge, which has for months been the site of a protest against the pipeline.
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They do so with as much focus on the North, which has zero real medal contenders, as the South, which in the three decades since its last Olympics has built a solid winter program as it went from economic backwater and military dictatorship to Asia's fourth-biggest economy and a bulwark of liberal democracy.
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If you're not careful, you can begin to see the rest of the world as an uncultured backwater, an inhospitable zone of absolute nothingness where everyone wears flat caps and falls over on cobbled streets before supping pints of foamy brown chip fat and whippet fur before going to bed at 73pm because everywhere shut an hour beforehand.
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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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The N.B.A. made a move last week to try to change the perception of the G League as a basketball backwater, introducing a new "professional path" for 276-20 in which certain one-and-done talents like Bazley will be able to earn $125,000 for a season in the G League before becoming eligible for the N.B.A. draft.
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In this rather amazing sequence from an early chapter in The Big Disruption, Arsyen Aimo, an exiled prince from the fictional backwater country of Phyrria who has been working in Silicon Valley as a janitor, has accidentally convinced executives at the tech behemoth Anahata to hire him as Project Manager for the company's disruptive new project – a car slash social network.
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Of course, now Lynn is a world-famous country music icon; a recipient of the Presidential Medal of Honor, a Grammy winner, the songwriter behind some of country's most beloved anthems, and the most awarded female country singer in history—but she was born a coal miner's daughter, one of eight children raised in the remote backwater of Butcher Holler, Kentucky.
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Ross Douthat IF the United States imperium in all its might did not exist, if the Washington, D.C., of Donald Trump and James Comey were just the Sicilian-style backwater that it currently resembles, then no one looking at recent events would doubt that the entire Middle East is on the verge of its own version of a European Great War.
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Try a good half-century ago, I was told by locals, before the place was discovered by the outside world, back when it was still Arches National Monument and not yet a designated park, just a dusty backwater in southeast Utah inhabited by a few old cowboys, desert castaways, Latter-Day seekers, and a handful of tourists who'd perhaps made a wrong turn somewhere.
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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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The story of a man holding out for deliverance from the backwater that turns out to be his destiny (if "destiny_"_ isn't too dignified a word for where character and circumstance conspire to deposit us), it was written by a man likewise toiling in provincial obscurity and had itself to wait decades after its publication, in 1956, before it was recognized in the Spanish-speaking world as a classic.
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After searching for a Bahamas vacation free from the confines of a cruise ship, all-inclusive resort or even traditional sailboat charter — where the staff goes to great lengths to shield guests from the raw natural beauty of the islands — I'd found Out Island's sail-camping journeys and set out to explore the Caribbean-pine fringed cays, deserted beaches, backwater fishing villages and pristine coral reefs of the Exumas.
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Into this breach stepped the Scottish National Party with the pitch that an independent Scotland wouldn't so much be a tiny, cold backwater as another thriving Nordic-style social democracy just like Norway or Finland — countries that are, in fact, tiny and cold and sort of backwaters but that also regularly dominate international rankings of quality and life and serve as emblems of hope to left-wing intellectuals around the world.
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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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" The Crete of Miller's journey was not yet a full-fledged tourist destination, especially on the cusp of war, and was a relative backwater, putting him in the mind of "the back pages of Dickens' novels, of a quaint one-legged world illuminated by a jaded moon: a land that had survived every catastrophe and was now palpitating with a blood beat, a land of owls and herons and crazy relics such as sailors bring back from foreign shores.
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