Sentence examples for formerly prosperous from inspiring English sources
Mr Mugabe has pauperised a formerly prosperous country and used thuggery to remain perpetually in power.
It is now a common sight to find formerly prosperous middle-class men and women sleeping rough in Milan, Italy's financial capital.
A long tract on the north side of the Via dell'Abbondanza — a commercial hub of this formerly prosperous Roman city — is blocked by metal barriers, and some buildings are propped up with scaffolding as a precautionary measure.
Meanwhile, the Westchester Partnership for Economic Development, a public-private coalition, has started the Westchester Cities Initiative to help formerly prosperous urban centers -- like Mount Vernon, New Rochelle, Peekskill, White Plains and Yonkers -- join in the upswing.
Taken together, the events escalated the confusion and conflict over who is the rightful president of Venezuela, the oil-rich and formerly prosperous country upended by political repression and severe economic hardship under Mr. Maduro.
Venezuela's formerly prosperous oil-based economy has collapsed, with inflation running at an unfathomable 1.3 million percent and 8 of 10 Venezuelans surveyed reporting that they do not have enough food at home.
As a European I'll cede defeat and admit that any record produced in our green and formerly-prosperous part of the world should only come in the dub format.
Formerly known as Burma, it was once prosperous and self-sufficient.
Bluefield was once prosperous.
It concerns Lester Zircon, formerly a prosperous TV writer.
Will America wake up before Obama transforms this formerly freest and most prosperous nation in the history of the world into just another banana republic?
