But in the end it seemed churlish to deny the country's less-than-captivating capital city the few minutes during which it actually had a tourist attraction.
With his polished English, full of arcane turns of phrase from his days at a private English school in Addis Ababa, the capital, he captivates foreign donors.
In the wake of a series of deadly attacks in India's financial capital that captivated the world's attention for three days, newspaper editorials from regional and world powers weigh in.
History, culture and operatic street life combine to make Palermo, Sicily's capital, a compelling, captivating city.
He also worked briefly in an advertising agency in central London, before the burgeoning counter culture of the capital began to captivate him.
From March, new Easyjet flights from Gatwick to the capital Amman mean this captivating city will now be a viable low-cost option for a magical Middle East break.
Fresh signs of the political implications of Enron's demise were evident in a capital that has quickly become captivated by the matter.
The jury trial captivated the male-dominated world of venture capital and the tech industry more broadly, and has pushed firms to do more about the lack of women in those sectors.
Though Habermas is not regarded to be a proponent of the de-colonial project, his position equally speaks to the European and non-European subjects, who are commonly captivated by the principalities and powers of the sovereign statehood and transnational capital nowadays.
Its breezy cosmopolitan capital, Papeete, sits on Tahiti's northeastern tip and is the gateway to a captivating world of indigenous culture that infuses a chain of islands spread across 5 million square kilometres of sparkling ocean between Australia and South America.
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