Sentence examples for losing town from inspiring English sources

Over the years, public attention to the development has not been intense, but residents have expressed worry about possible costs to the public that have not been well defined, about losing town control of commercial development that could take 10 to 15 years and about the threat to Fairfield's quiet, upscale, country ambience.

Such an effort, Mr. Payne suggested, could be achieved by creating a new system to force losing towns to pay those lawyers' fees.

However the map is redrawn, the six House incumbents face losing towns from their districts, or at the very least, gaining new constituents who do not know their records.

In losing towns such as Manbij, it has lost access to the Turkish border, which means the supply of foreign fighters, weapons and ammunition is drying up.

Think local "Bunker Hill is old town, lost town, shabby town, crook town," wrote Raymond Chandler in 1942's The High Window.

He retook the previously lost town of Voden (Edessa) and laid siege to the massive fortress of Maglen, situated to the north-west.

The army continued to lose towns in the south to the SPLA, but it managed to hold the three provincial capitals of Malakal, Wau, and Juba.

"Attack (the disbelievers) everywhere and shake the ground beneath them," he said, telling supporters they "may lose a battle or battles and may lose towns and areas, but will never be defeated".

Rather, these lost towns are what remain of communities where thousands of people lived and toiled in the 18th and 19th centuries, producing tile, bricks, glass, lumber, paper, iron and munitions.

"It's even more significant that the PS has lost towns where the mayors were well appreciated, where their record was good and where they had the advantage of being in power already.

"This was not some bucolic Walden Pond — this was heavy industry," said Budd Wilson, a former state archaeologist who over the last 48 years has excavated many of the sites of these lost towns.