Sentence examples for capital lay from inspiring English sources

When the riots subsided four days later, large downtown areas of the capital lay in ruins.

A few hours east of the proposed capital lay the town of Ekibastuz, where Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn served a term in a labor camp.

But last week the parliament building in the EU capital lay semi-vacant because of the wearying regime known as the Strasbourg shuttle, whereby MEPs have to spend 12 four-day sessions a year in the French city.

Other women from the same courtyard on secteur 30 Ouagadougou outskirt, Burkina Faso's capital lay it on a bit thick to make the case stronger.

It is all very well to say that sooner or later almost everybody will be a free-market democrat; but, even if that proves to be true, it will take a long time to happen.As East Asians and Russians have been painfully discovering in the past couple of years, efficient capitalism is not just a matter of making sure that the ownership of capital lies in a variety of competing hands.

The capital lies in a low, flat basin less than ten metres above the nearby Java Sea.

There is a huge amount of idle capital lying around looking for investments.

The Egyptian capital lies less than 100 miles from North Sinai, where Isis affiliate Wilayat Sinai has been targeting soldiers and police in a bloody insurgency.

ON THE outskirts of Columbia, South Carolina's capital, lies a rolling swathe of farmland where cattle graze, tomatoes sprout and razor wire glints in the afternoon sun.

In central Georgia, between the cities of Khashuri and Mtsʿkhetʿa (the ancient capital), lies the inner high plateau known as the Kartli (Kartalinian) Plain.

In Kilinochchi, Tamil Eelam's putative capital, lie the remains of a huge water tank destroyed by the LTTE, with the slogan: "Say no to destruction ever again".