Sentence examples for former importance from inspiring English sources

Its center is known as Five Corners, attesting to its former importance as a junction.

The city declined during the Crusades and never regained its former importance.

Although Lorraine is one of the most heavily industrialized areas of France, certain traditional activities have lost their former importance.

While the town is now quite small, its former importance can be seen in its large number of Buddhist temples and Shinto shrines.

With the advent of the Portuguese and British, the port cities were further developed and fortified but now have lost their former importance.

The city is suffused with a powerful sense of its former importance — Argentina was once one of wealthiest countries in the world — even as it recedes resentfully into the distant past.

The river's former economic importance as a source of salmon was superseded by the development of its hydropower facilities.

As commercial routes gradually developed on the coasts, however, these northern towns lost their former economic importance, while other centres, such as Birni Nkonni, and Tessaoua, declined in the course of the 19th century as a result of the colonial era.

While the former places importance on interpretation in research, the latter on matters on power relations such as domination, oppression and emancipation.

Using the cases database, we build network of lawyers nodes correspond to lawyers and a directed edge from lawyer A to lawyer B indicates that A "lost" one or more cases to B. The idea is that when a layer loses a case to another lawyer, for former gives importance to the latter.

St . Petersburglost its status as capital during the Communist period, but now, with a native son, President Vladimir V. Putin, installed in the Kremlin, it is being given occasional flashbacks of its former self-importance.