Sentence examples for its 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.

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

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.

This great industry was not to last, however; by the turn of the 20th century, its contribution to the state's economy had dwindled to only a fraction of its former importance.

The town has some fine Georgian architecture, particularly the Court House (1813; restored after a fire) and the Post Office, which reflects its former importance as a shipping point for neighbouring sugar plantations.

Comparing Mr Berezovsky to Owen Glendower in Shakespeare's Henry IV Part 1, he said: "Mr Berezovsky has found it very difficult to accept that, for all his former importance as a power broker and for all the great wealth that he has obtained by that means, in business terms he was a relatively marginal player.

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.

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

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

A fire-loving (pyrophilous) insect fauna appears to have been attracted to the burnt areas, and the decline and extirpation in Britain of a number of pyrophilous species (e.g. Stagetus borealis Isrealsson) suggests the former importance of this type of habitat within British Pinus mire systems.