Sentence examples for former prosperity from inspiring English sources

There were traces of former prosperity even in the long-empty buildings.

The Customs House (1683) and several merchants' homes recall the town's commercial history and former prosperity.

It was relatively unimportant during the Roman occupation but regained its former prosperity during Byzantine times.

Newburyport's former prosperity is evident in the big houses built then, and the story is told at the Custom House.

The pathos of her downfall is registered in nuances of observation, like the cream Chanel jacket she wears too often, clinging to the facade of her former prosperity.

Though it continued for another century as a free city it never recovered its former prosperity; in about 227 bce a severe earthquake devastated the island.

It has never recovered from the social and political turmoil that followed.Approaching the city centre from the airport, one can easily imagine the former sophisticated prosperity of what is still the country's business and administrative capital.

The local building firm that was the motor of its former roaring prosperity has collapsed, and crooked boss Pokey Burke has fled the country, leaving his employees betrayed as well as broke: here, the global crisis wears the face of your neighbour.

There is a supposed mutualism between the digital nomad and the local population: the former brings prosperity and an innovative outlook, the latter provides for the quality amenities that attract the nomads.

BONUS, Texas – More than a century since this speck of a town (population 42) was named for a bonus paid to extend railroad service to a local plantation, few signs of its former economic prosperity remain.

Allegations of government interference and corruption abound and, as in other parts of the former Soviet Union, the prosperity enjoyed by a few has not filtered down to average people, who are generally worse off than they were in Soviet times.