Sentence examples for capital built on from inspiring English sources

The best place to start a tour is Valletta, Malta's architecturally splendid capital, built on the main battle area of the siege after the knights' victory.

Nigeria's commercial capital, built on a swamp and a series of islands, will overtake Cairo as Africa's biggest city in the next five years with a population of 12.4 million, according to the UN.

Let's jump across the Atlantic to San Jose (#6), Costa Rica's capital built on coffee.

Madison's Capital is the Nation's only State Capital built on an isthmus, between Lake Mendota and Lake Monona.

Mrs. Kjaersgaard's showing in opinion surveys, moreover, reflects a trend in Europe as immigration issues kindle a fringe of rightist figures whose political capital builds on a sense of threat.

The additional capital builds on previous investments from top firms, including Bessemer Venture Partners, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, and North Bridge Venture Partners.

Just as we have observed the military frequently spending money on capital built for the last war such as aircraft carriers and other slow moving military tools.

In the early 1990s, the Malaysian government conceived of a new federal administrative capital built from a tabula rasa on former oil palm and rubber plantations called Putrajaya.

Much of the capital is built on the soft soil of a former lake bed, making it vulnerable to earthquakes.

He marvels at the gauzy beauty of the colonial capital Georgetown, "built on canals and breezes, a city of stilts and clapboard, brilliant whites, fretwork, spindles and louvers".

A trip to see Rwanda's gorillas starts in the capital, Kigali, built on a handful of the so-called thousand hills that make up Rwanda.