Sentence examples for a capital whose from inspiring English sources

This vandalism was apparently random — an attempt, perhaps, to spread terror in a capital whose cosmopolitan, Europe-leaning residents largely despise Yanukovych — but a few of the vehicles targeted for destruction belonged to opposition politicians and to Auto Maidan participants.

Today's report was released in a capital whose attention is now riveted by greater challenges -- dealing with the aftermath of the worst terror attack on American soil and waging a war in Afghanistan.

And so, in Erbil, in the weeks to come, American pilots will defend from the air a capital whose growing independence and wealth has loosened Iraq's seams, even while, in Baghdad, American diplomats will persist quixotically in an effort to stitch that same country together to confront ISIS.

The most political address in the city is proof that a sense of community remains strong in a capital whose population tends to shift with elections every four years.

Meanwhile AQIM and its allies threaten to attack any capital whose government sends troops.

SNOOTY travelers could be forgiven for overlooking Brussels, a European capital whose iconic monument is a 17th-century bronze statue of a little boy urinating into a fountain.

Pupils at Shimundo secondary school, where Zita teaches, can send the most intimate questions that they can't get answers to in the dirt-track villages surrounding Xai-Xai, a provincial capital whose grand avenues speak of a former glory.

Under the influence of Murakami, I arrived in Tokyo expecting Barcelona or Paris or Berlin — a cosmopolitan world capital whose straight-talking citizens were fluent not only in English but also in all the nooks and crannies of Western culture: jazz, theater, literature, sitcoms, film noir, opera, rock 'n' roll.

He made his money running a subsidiary of Bain Capital, whose "modus operandi was to invest in companies, leverage them up with debt, and then sell them off for scrap, allowing Bain's investors to walk away with huge profits while the companies in which Bain invested wound up in bankruptcy, laying off workers and reneging on benefits".

According to an inscription from his reign, Sargon II, an Assyrian king, built a perimeter wall around his capital whose length (16,280 cubits) was the same as the numeric sum of the letters of his name.

With five hours before the ferry back to Kefalonia, where I'd get a bus to Athens, I took a taxi from the port to Vathy, Ithaca's capital, whose stately buildings edged a shallow bay.