Sentence examples for built on old from inspiring English sources

"We want to open a new page and build a democratic society according to modern values, not one built on old ties established during the Communist period," Ilija Dimovski, a member of Parliament with the governing party, the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization, which is center-right nationalist, said Monday in a telephone interview from Skopje.

Varginha, built on old swampland, is one of several favelas that have been "pacified," meaning the drug lords who once ran the place have been ejected or subdued by authorities, and the government has allocated money for community centers, libraries and a train station.

There are now more than 1,500 miles of cycle pathway in Britain that have been built on old rail track, most of it generated by Beeching cuts.

Developers of a network of hiking trails being built on old rail lines were planning a link to the bridge, but they have plotted out an alternate route.

One reason golf courses are built on old dumps is that the course can simply be regraded if the hills start to slump.

IT is an obscure fact that topsoil in new housing developments built on old farms is often tainted with chemical pesticides.

Composers are eager not only to learn from iconic masterpieces but also to build on old forms and test their own prowess against them.

The trend of drinking patterns is not documented, but applying evidence from elsewhere we expect new drinking patterns to build on old traditional drinking behaviours along with other social changes [ 28].

Howard's success is not down to technology but rather built on old-fashioned values of hard work.

Latanya and Latasha similarly built on older names.

In each case these developments built on older rail-, roand, and sea-travel patterns.