Sentence examples for Economic desolation from inspiring English sources

So was Brian Dennis, a steelworker from Redcar, a town facing economic desolation because of the loss of its steelworks.

As almost everyone who has written about him has concluded, voters trusted Roosevelt to lead the country through eight years of economic desolation, followed by a two-front war, because of his personality.

In 1990 another Luo hero, Robert Ouko, then Kenya's foreign minister, was also murdered.A sense of economic desolation as well as political turmoil pervades the Luo fishing villages edging Lake Victoria.

And here in Paterson, New Jersey's third-largest city and once a prosperous factory hub, Mr. Obama found the kind of economic desolation that his administration has been unable to turn around.

Ireland was a country in transition back then, stuck between the economic desolation of the 80s and the Celtic Tiger years of the 00s.

Those miraculous neighborhoods in Gulfport, like my own, are plagued by drug abuse and economic desolation today, and that is testament to that other history, the history of our subjugation.

Without such review, Harlem residents will continue to have well-founded fears that the downside of Harlem's cusp is economic and cultural desolation.

They were voting for the future — a future filled with economic and cultural desolation that would continue to pass them by if they did not take a wrecking ball to the systems around them.

All these are clear examples of a policy that only resulted in economic stagnation and desolation.

There is little to break the silence at Kolwezi, once the economic powerhouse of Congo, now a landscape of industrial desolation.

A few miles west of the city of Bam, whose famous date palms survived the earthquake that destroyed the mud-brick citadel there in 2003, we were admitted to a special economic zone in an expanse of reclaimed desert, where we gained a sense of the desolation wreaked by sanctions – and the country's potential for liftoff.