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For all that, however, the vote might yet lead to an inkling of political, social and economic change in a benighted country.

We passed through the benighted fishermen's shanty towns lining the shore. People came out to wave.

Now Mrs Bachmann would have the United States demand $1 trillion or so from the benighted Iraqis as the price of its going.

MOST writing about the benighted land of Burma, dubbed Myanmar by the grotesque junta running it, falls into one of two traps.

As a rare friend of North Korea and Myanmar, Vietnam could help coax those benighted places out of self-imposed isolation.

That may sound a bit quixotic, but Assange and his associates appear the opposite of benighted.

If you recall, this benighted agreement was the euro zone's sole defense against charges of being a suboptimal currency area.

For nearly 30 years from independence in 1975 Angola was embroiled in civil war and known as one of the most benighted places in the world.

Under him, although he brought electrification, asphalt roads and friendship with America, the place became yet more isolated and benighted.

That western civilisation should have been born in so benighted a country as Iraq may seem bad luck.

So, behind Burma's benighted, authoritarian regime lie structural problems of ethnicity and geography.

Even life in benighted Hillbrow is improving, albeit from a low base.

I'm a savage in a benighted age, alone and helpless in a land with no culture.

If you don't hurry, we might be benighted on the way.

Engagement was supposed to bring economic benefits to the benighted North; a modicum of mutual trust was meant to lessen its threat.

Such treats are lost on visitors from the benighted lands with no sauna culture.

Crafty men contemn studies; benighted men admire them; and wise men use them.

In the most benighted areas they will sometimes build roads and schools to keep the locals friendly.

This enlightens the benighted the sound, proceeds from one for the delicate nurse's bottom of one's heart.

Let that whole benighted region rot without us.

A blanker whiteness of benighted snow.

And, as I have written in relation to our benighted economy, the growth that might ease the problem will only be depressed by higher taxes.

After yesterday's 2. 1 per cent devaluation, the benighted dong is down 5 per cent against the dollar.

Last year Myanmar's benighted people were forced to endorse a dwifungsi constitution in a referendum.

Heathen: n. A benighted creature who has the folly to worship something that he can see and feel.

The most benighted of men are not without some glimmerings of the divine: that murderer plays passing well upon the flute;

An opening for Chinese investment in a benighted country

benighted ages of barbarism and superstition;

For development-minded people, such benighted places are an obvious concern because of their desperate suffering;