Sentences with 'backwater'
Example sentences and phrases with the word backwater and other words derived from it.
• « Its version of absolutism, centred on the authority of the king, the rights of the nobles and an overwhelming focus on the military, proved effective in transforming it from a backwater into Austria's only serious rival for dominance in Central Europe. »
• « The irony of the fact that England was the first state to move towards "modern" standards and political dominance is that, at the beginning of the 17th century, England was a relative backwater. »
• « During the 18th century Prussia had grown from a rather poor backwater in the north, lacking in natural resources and far from the centres of intellectual and cultural life further south, to one of the great kingdoms of Europe. »