Sentence examples for depopulate from inspiring English sources

I called Mr Sidorenko in Moscow last week to talk about the map, and came away with several things that have always been true about Russia.Industrial and company towns can't diversifySince the 1990s, and acutely since the most recent financial crisis, Russia has been unable to figure out how to either revive or depopulate its one-industry cities.

Government medical services have done little to win the confidence of people who often prefer to use traditional healers.Since the disease broke out a few months ago some easterners say the government is trying to depopulate their part of the country, the power-base of the opposition.

But the campaign has been hamstrung by scaremongering zealots.Some Nigerian Muslims believe that the polio vaccine is part of an American plot to depopulate poor countries.

He is likelier to depopulate the region than to stop the flow of arms over the border.New fronts could then open.

Captain Alaa al-Basha, a rebel commander in Damascus, thinks the regime was trying to depopulate the area in the face of renewed progress by rebels pushing towards the centre of the capital.

The increased ease of travel helped to depopulate many culturally rich, high-altitude areas as well.

So much of the former Soviet Union feels depopulated and abandoned compared with the west, but near the Chernobyl zone that feeling gradually intensifies.

Today, with rural areas increasingly depopulated, perhaps a tenth of all plots are abandoned to weeds.

In all these cases, people were drawn into violence seizing an oilfield, depopulating a province, rearranging a border, slitting a thousand throats by the feeling that they were different from the other lot, not in politico-economic details but in something that reaches far deeper down in the human mind.There seems no good reason why such things will not happen again in other parts of the world.

We do not know what are the casualties incurred in the week's fighting that started last Saturday morning; but we do know that heavy sacrifices of life and limb must be made at every "push," and that a town must be depopulated of its young men for every village gained.

As the accompanying map suggests, Saddam Hussein's aggressive drainage programme in the 1990s, which had the dual purpose or reclaiming land and pursuing rebels hiding in the waterways, turned much of the marshland into desert, depopulating the area.