Hinterlands

The ability of new faces to challenge the status quo from the hinterlands is an important but underappreciated feature of American federalism: Governors play a key role in keeping a party's fortunes alive when the party no longer controls the federal government. ❋ Unknown (2003)

"It's pushed the dealers off the main streets, but it's also pushed people into what I call the hinterlands," he says. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Even so, questions regarding Richmond's ethics continued to stir in hinterlands of the Internet, with new questions being asked by documentary filmmaker Jason Berry, who was known among a certain set of New Orleans residents for being into non-partisan muckracking of a more local sort at his American Zombie blog. ❋ Ray Mikell (2010)

THERE IS HISTORY that is based on hard, documented fact; history that is colored with rumor, speculation, or falsehood; and history that exists in what might be termed the hinterlands of the imagination. ❋ S. C. Gwynne (2010)

If defending Kandahar is the only Canadian goal, then the ploy of tricking us out into the hinterlands is a successful tactic ... yet our mission is not just Kanahar City ... but the entire province. ❋ Unknown (2007)

For the East-Coast rich, banishing one's offspring to the hinterlands is a time-honoured summer tradition. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Vu Hotel in the Far West Side hinterlands, which is in foreclosure and "can't open until new ownership takes over." ❋ Unknown (2009)

It's why major news organizations, often headquartered in big cities, feel the need to head to the "hinterlands" to find the "mood of the nation." ❋ Unknown (2008)

I find it ironic to complain about how people in the "hinterlands" have to travel to get to conferences, but then to hold the conference in a major urban center with an international airport. ❋ Unknown (2006)

The authors of the new report argue that the era of forests as "hinterlands," or remote areas largely ignored except as a supply of cheap natural resources, is swiftly coming to an end. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The subjugation of Europe's eastern "hinterlands" will be explored later in relation to her comments on the European Union's Eastern Partnership and related matters. ❋ Unknown (2010)

By geographic area, those "hinterlands" are a majority of the country. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Well, at least in my part of the "hinterlands" more folks are, or becoming "unaffiliated" because of partisan politics. ❋ Unknown (2009)