Sentence examples for crumbling capital from inspiring English sources

A festive atmosphere prevailed in the teeming, crumbling capital, with voters expressing their satisfaction in interviews with an election whose outcome wasn't determined in advance.

It was once the city's best hotel, 16 severe stories of prestressed concrete, 300 rooms and 530 beds in the heart of Georgia's lovely if crumbling capital.

EIGHT years ago, the United States established its first embassy in Angola's crumbling capital, Luanda, and erected a small bronze monument to mark the occasion.

SOOTHING Indian Ocean breezes swirl around this crumbling capital, a mix of Arab and Italian architecture, as everyday life goes on.

So, unless it soon becomes clear that an election is in the offing, the mood in Congo's crumbling capital, Kinshasa, home to 9m people, may start getting ugly.Father Apollinaire Malu Malu, the electoral commission's head, says things are on track for all voters to be registered by October.

When he died, from cancer, in 1978, at 35, he seemed to have taken with him much of that messianic, carefree ethos that arose when New York was a crumbling capital with mean streets, cheap rents and bad air, and when art wasn't worth much either, so nothing was impossible.

But most of all there was glumness across this crumbled capital.

In Jaffna, the crumbling northern capital of Sri Lankan Tamils, who are 12% of the island's 20m people, he won 64% though with a low turnout, after hand-grenades were lobbed at several polling stations.These results were expected.

The Copenhagen-born, Berlin-based artist, known for his enormous, immersive installations – he once installed a gigantic, glowing sun at Tate Modern – included simple instructions: residents of the crumbling Albanian capital, which was recovering from the end of communist rule in 1990, were to construct their visions for the city's future out of Lego.

Mogadishu, once a crumbling, war-torn capital, has shown tentative signs of bouncing back, with reconstructed hospitals, shops and homes.

He left the crumbling, shoddy former capital, Yangon, for a pristine, deserted highway and a new city built on an epic scale, adorned with monumental statues of the martial heroes of Burmese history.