Sentence examples for empty capital from inspiring English sources

"The great exodus from London continues as it become an empty capital of sterile steel boxes".

Charles left the Habsburg state at the lowest point of its prestige, its coffers empty, its capital beset by unrest.

This led to the national government organising a "Crisis headquarters" in the middle of Sofia, as if there had been an earthquake or fire, which proceeded to hire its own fleet of rubbish lorries and bin-men to empty the capital's bins.

Khmer Rouge troops immediately began to forcibly empty the capital city, driving the population into the countryside and killing tens of thousands in the process.

Pyongyang is the emptiest, quietest capital in Asia, but it is changing, slowly, driven by the legacy of famine.

The surge in conflict had almost emptied the capital, and she was among thousands who travelled overland for days, walking or climbing onto the backs of trucks when the opportunity arose.

TO ANYONE driving through Berlin's empty streets, this capital of 3.4m seems a backwater.

The demonstrations in Lebanon came as hundreds of thousands of Iraqi and Iranian Shiites observed the Arbain holiday in Karbala, 60 miles south of Baghdad, leaving the capital empty.

Military commanders ordered Chechnya's capital emptied of its surviving residents and sealed.

Streets in the capital emptied after the 1 p.m. deadline the cleric's aides had set for businesses to close and workers to go home.

Police and army armoured personnel carriers flooded on to the streets as the normally traffic-choked thoroughfares of the Indonesian capital emptied, and six explosions and a gunfight in a cinema ensued as the attackers were pursued by security forces.