Sentence examples for dangerous capital from inspiring English sources

Back in 1988, I scurried through what was regarded by guidebooks as the most dangerous capital city in South America.

According to reputable commentators and institutions, Somalia has the world's "dodgiest passports", "worst humanitarian crisis", "most corrupt government" and "most dangerous capital city".

This city, laid to ruin by two wars of rebellion against Moscow since 1994, may be the most dangerous capital on earth.

Though safer than it was, Baghdad is still the most dangerous capital in the world.In any event, as the recently departed American mastermind of the surge, General David Petraeus, repeatedly said, the gains remain "fragile and reversible".

And Turkey's prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, visited Mogadishu, Somalia's wrecked and dangerous capital, along with members of his family and cabinet, to show in his words—"common humanity".

Relentless urban combat between the transitional government and a determined Islamist insurgency has driven hundreds of thousands of people out of Mogadishu, Somalia's notoriously dangerous capital, and created a wide wake of suffering.

That belief empowered them to buy securities that turned out to be dangerous, and capital was extended to the wrong hands.

Yet while the rest of the city gives in to nostalgia for New York's heyday as the dirty, dangerous creative capital of the world, in the South Bronx itself a less welcome revolution is under way.

This is why VC is so dangerous: venture capital incentivizes companies with good vanity metrics to start scaling bad experiments.

When he met her she was a dancer in a club in Teguc [Tegucigalpa, the great, dangerous, furious capital city of Honduras], and she conceived a plan for me to marry one of his daughters.

But these places are DANGEROUS, with a capital D, and a capital A-N-G-E-R-O-U-S, too.