Sentences with phrase «sleepy backwater»

However change is on the horizon for this once - sleepy backwater with extensive tourist development planned by 2020.

The paper calls Schneiderman's Republican opponent, Staten Island DA Dan Donovan, «a decent man who seems ready to restore the job to the sleepy backwater it was a dozen years ago» and has done a «competent» ojb in his current post over the past seven years.»

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.

The Times called Donovan «decent» and «competent» in his current post, but said he «seems ready to restore the job to the sleepy backwater it was a dozen years ago» and panned him for «clearly» being willing to soften oversight of Wall Street.

The department had become a sleepy backwater accused of abandoning industry altogether.

When a storm hits their sleepy backwater town, the mother of the family starts bleeding from her mouth.

That now extends to federal education policy, once a sleepy backwater of genial bipartisanship.

For many years Vientiane was a sleepy backwater capital of an equally backwater state, but, as the country has slowly opened up to foreign investment and tourism, the city has gone through vast changes.

For many years it was a sleepy backwater capital of an equally backwater state, but as Laos has slowly opened up to foreign investment and tourism, Vientiane has undergone vast changes and continues to expand.

Vientiane: For many years a sleepy backwater capital of an equally backwater state, as Laos has slowly opened up to foreign investment and tourism Vientiane has undergone vast changes and continues to expand.

If you are used to holidaying there it may even seem a sleepy backwater in which to spend a week or two.

It's mostly a sleepy backwater, but once a year things get very loud and fast.