Sentence examples for capital citizens from inspiring English sources
In late August, at Vandalia, the former state capital, citizens fired on troops who had arrested deserters, wounding two.
After months of a brutal crackdown and a bitter civil war, in a country with little history of unity where autonomous brigades of fighters still roam the capital, citizens have been unexpectedly willing to set aside their grievances against functionaries of the Qaddafi government.
But it does have a great reserve of human capital: Citizens ready, willing and able to serve their country.
Time did find one upside to new security measures that have kept delivery trucks from entering the capital: Citizen reporters on Weibo say that the price of persimmons, which are ripening across the capital in brilliant bursts of vermillion, have plummeted because out-of-town buyers cannot drive their vans into the city to load up on the autumn fruit.
A recent study suggested that some 70 percent of the capital's citizens either walk, bike or take the bus.
The operation set off a huge riot here in the capital, where citizens are already angry over outside intervention.
The capital's citizens, inured to fighting in Chad's hinterland, remain shocked by the speed with which the rebels reached them.
Millionaires on its Mayfair streets and penthouses may be more numerous than Monaco, but they account for only one in every 29 of the capital's citizens.
There are only about 325,000 native Luxembourgers in the total population, and fewer than half of the residents of the capital are citizens.
In Buenos Aires, the capital, destitute citizens picked through rubbish to collect anything worth recycling, sold crafts on the pavement, charged drivers to "protect" their parked vehicles and cleaned car windscreens at red lights.
The capital's citizens dug miles of tunnels, too, including a fabled four-lane underground roadway between the Communist Party's leadership compound and the Great Hall of the People, where the country's servile congress sits.
