Sentence examples for has been decrepit from inspiring English sources

Although no big factory closures are involved, GM will reduce its salaried staff in America by 10%, to cope with declining market share.Oldsmobile, the oldest of GM's brands, has been decrepit for some time.

The other place had been decrepit, with a floor of packed earth.

[A7] REBUILDING IRAQ -- In an example of the thankless task of rebuilding Iraq's infrastructure, the Army Corps of Engineers has been rehabilitating a decrepit sewage-treatment plant in Baghdad in secrecy, fearing it could be a prime target for insurgents.

It is a novel private-public partnership.Another project has been to revive the decrepit railway service from Mandalay to Myitkyina, previously the lifeline of Kachin state linking it to the rest of Myanmar.

Even the rotted wood of the decrepit door has been carved, along with every tenacious branch and leaf of ivy.

North Korea, while reluctant to expose its citizens to the outside world, has been seeking foreign investment for its decrepit educational system.

An inability to move from or redevelop their decrepit Somerset Park home has been a major hindrance to Ayr's plans for progress over the past two decades.

The decrepit, three-tiered diving platform, which has been unused since the 1980's, would also be replaced.

Since 1994 he has been photographing the site's alleys, cavernous dry docks and decrepit interiors.

ITS economy a mixture of decrepit state industry and dubious private enterprise, Bulgaria has been a post-communist failure.

The president has been reluctant to target black suffering – be it in overcrowded prisons, decrepit schools or declining workplaces.