Sentence examples for isolated capital from inspiring English sources
Lives were saved and food, water, gasoline and medical help ferried by choppers to villages and towns as well as the initially isolated capital, Tegucigalpa, itself.
The party appears to have won all four seats in contention in Naypyidaw, the country's new and relatively isolated capital, which is populated mostly by civil servants.
"The evidence displays a strong connection between the spatial distribution of population and corruption: Isolated capital cities are associated with greater levels of corruption across U.S. states," a study by the Kennedy School concludes.
Mr. Gambari flew late Saturday to Naypyidaw, the isolated capital, for meetings with representatives of the junta, Mr. Petrie said.
In fact, he went to Lhasa, Tibet's isolated capital, and escaped his Chinese overseers in order to warn his brother, soon to be invested as the Dalai Lama, that the Chinese had invaded and that he should flee.
The meeting was held in a soaring reception room painted with a mural of Buddhist temples set in the jungle, the landscape around Naypyidaw (pronounced nay-pee-DAW), the sprawling, isolated capital the generals constructed out of the rice fields and jungle about 200 miles north of Yangon.
Mr. Gambari traveled directly to Naypyidaw, the isolated, bunkered capital that the ruling junta opened for itself two years ago, apparently at least in part because of its fear of popular uprisings.
The widespread street demonstrations and road and rail blockades isolated the capital, Dhaka, from the rest of the country, disrupted supplies of essential commodities and halted activities at major ports.
United States troops began a gradual encirclement of Baghdad on Friday, apparently as part of a strategy to isolate the capital, and American tanks were reported moving into the city this morning.
In moving forward with long-threatened plans to develop E1, Israel will be breaking the back of the West Bank and isolating the capital of the prospective Palestinian state from its hinterland.
Or it might come as the result of asphyxiation, once the Americans isolate the capital from the rest of the country.How it could endEven now, in other words, a collapse from within cannot be ruled out.
