Sentence examples for capital site from inspiring English sources

A REPORTER AT LARGE about Alaska and the hunt for a new capital site there.

In response to the overcrowding and congestion of Lagos, the federal government selected a new capital site, Abuja, which replaced Lagos as the national capital in December 1991.

By John McPhee The New Yorker, October 4, 1976 P. 40 A REPORTER AT LARGE about Alaska and the hunt for a new capital site there.

Brooklyn Heights as the capital site was discussed in a 1948 book, "New York: The World's Capital City," by Cleveland Rodgers and Rebecca B. Rankin.

China Daily, an English-language newspaper, quoted an unnamed police source as saying security had already been ratcheted up for the trials, which would be held in the Intermediate People's Court in Urumqi, Xinjiang's capital, site of the riots.

However, the choice of a capital site in the midst of extensive hardwood forests was rejected by Guy Carleton (Governor Dorchester).

In prioritising investment in natural capital, site-scale indicators are increasingly used to capture fine-scale variation inherent in complex ecosystems.

Some local officials in places favoured by scholars as potential capital sites have been proclaiming their merits.

This methodology was based on our previous work on glass trade beads recovered from K2 and Mapungubwe Hill, the capital sites of southern Africa's first state complex in the Limpopo River Basin [20 22].

In Botswana, Lesotho, Swaziland, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Zambia and Zimbabwe we stratified the most recent available census into rural, urban (not within the capital region), and urban capital sites.

Ebonyi state was created in 1996 from the old Abakaliki division of Enugu state and old Afikpo division of Abia state with the capital sited at Abakaliki which is also the largest city.