"economic" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Under his rule, a country that a century earlier had rivalled the empire builders of Europe became a political and economic backwater.
- Though there were substantial improvements by the late 18th century, Spain was still an economic backwater.
- He said he had jumped at their proposal because it offered tribe members a road out of an economic backwater.
- (Argentina was a cultural and economic backwater until the 19th century.)
- Once the capitalist city-states of Italy lost their freedom, they became economic backwaters.
- Throughout the 20th century Taitung remained an economic backwater.
- Thereafter, the city become an economic backwater, and the capital of its old great families were spent overseas.
- Though the mill is empty today, modest gains have been made in the last three years throughout this economic backwater.
- Asia was an economic backwater when the European pipes were laid in the 1960's.
- Henan has still not, however, entirely shed its reputation as an economic backwater.
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