Sentence examples for * capital lay from inspiring English sources

When the riots subsided four days later, large downtown areas of the capital lay in ruins.

A few hours east of the proposed capital lay the town of Ekibastuz, where Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn served a term in a labor camp.

As the souks of this former world food capital lay in ruins, the chef-author links Middle Eastern foods and history.

But last week the parliament building in the EU capital lay semi-vacant because of the wearying regime known as the Strasbourg shuttle, whereby MEPs have to spend 12 four-day sessions a year in the French city.

Other women from the same courtyard on secteur 30 Ouagadougou outskirt, Burkina Faso's capital lay it on a bit thick to make the case stronger.

The capital lies in a low, flat basin less than ten metres above the nearby Java Sea.

There is a huge amount of idle capital lying around looking for investments.

Nassau, the Bahamian capital, lies on the central island of New Providence.

Okayama city, the prefectural capital, lies in the central Okayama plain, astride the Asahi River.

And lots of investors have capital lying around doing nothing, looking for somewhere to be deployed.

Between these two grand cultural capitals lies a countryside seemingly untouched by the modern age.