Sentence examples for former hub from inspiring English sources

Nusaybin, a former hub for suitcase traders, has been hit hard since its border with Syria was sealed in December.

The Garonne River waterfront, the former hub of Bordeaux's international trade, had devolved into an unsavory strip where prostitutes, not wine, were the commodity.

It is the former hub of a network of Gulag prison camps, and still the base for a huge metal-refining complex.

Around Halle, a former hub for East Germany's chemical industry, Mr. Diaby is renowned for his extroverted personality, which bears no trace of Teutonic reserve, and for his loquacity.

And in Tijuana — a former hub for migrants heading north, which now receives more deportees than anywhere else — the pool of deportees preparing to cross again just keeps growing.

Swiss's first flight was a 15-minute hop from its home base of Basel to Zurich, the former hub of Swissair, carrying its chief executive, André Dosé, and other top managers.

An hour's flight away, in the former aid hub of Abéché, the decrepit regional hospital is woefully understaffed.

The conference is in Essen, a former industrial hub where unemployment is at 11.6%, twice the national average.

Mosul, with a prewar population of more than two million, is Iraq's second-largest city and a former commercial hub.

The mill, which was the site of an famous labor strike in the 1920s, is in the city of Gastonia, a former industrial hub outside of Charlotte.

Open-floored commercial buildings in the area, a former printing hub still mostly zoned for commerce, are increasingly home to media and advertising companies.