Sentence examples for modern capitals from inspiring English sources

Closer to home, Malaysia and Thailand, with thriving modern capitals, are competing with Singapore as never before.

The number of practicing Roman Catholics, however, is estimated to be only a small percentage of the population; like other modern capitals, Vienna is highly secular.

If such state-sponsored farce in one of southeast Asia's most modern capitals suggests there is panic beneath the junta's brute power, its desperate need for its actions to be seen in a positive light confirms it.

There are moments in which Marinetti seems to be rushing ahead to the Russian Revolution and beyond ("the great crowds agitated by work, pleasure and revolt; the multi-colored and polyphonic surf of revolutions in modern capitals: the nocturnal vibration of the arsenals and the workshops beneath their violent electric moons").

EIGHT years ago, when I moved to Madrid, I was so astonished by the diversity of traditional Spanish cuisine — to say nothing of the nueva cocina phenomenon spawned by chefs like Ferran Adrià — that it took a while to notice that most "ethnic food" in the city, be it Indian, Italian or Chinese, was often a tame and tepid version of what's available in other modern capitals.

Above all, this bulwark against modern capital needs money.

It then winds on to the modern capital, Ajaccio.

Its modern capital and main commercial centre is Addis Ababa.

Visitors found a modern capital city studded with ambitious architecture.

Berlin, which has been Germany's modern capital for only 23 years, has reached a coming-of-age moment.

Can it steal WoW's crown?Unsung centenary India is unimpressed by the 100th birthday of its modern capital.