Sentence examples for neglected town from inspiring English sources

The Tories are a liberal market party of southern England backed by the financial elite: banks run for short-term profit, high streets neglected, town halls marginalised, and public services outsourced and centralised.

There is probably no more unjustly neglected town in these islands; there is nowhere of comparable size – 77,000 people – that has such a rich architectural, industrial and social history and that once mattered so much to the world.

The charity-shop-kebab-shop scruffiness of Tilbury – whose first streets and dwellings were largely built by the Irish working classes who came here to work – is typical of a neglected town in UK 2014.

Two sections of the increasingly neglected town wall collapsed in the mid-1850s.

With the satisfaction that Camden was once again being taken care of, we shifted our crusade to other neglected towns like Flint, Michigan.

Halabjans still feel a sense of abandonment, though now the resentment is largely focused on their regional government, which they claim has neglected this town that has already suffered so much.

SDEROT, Israel — This long neglected immigrant town a mile from Gaza, pounded by Palestinian rockets for the past seven years, is taking on a new identity, edging into the center of Zionist consciousness as a symbol of the nation's unofficial motto: "Never Again".

We jump in the car and head south to Corwen, a gorgeous, neglected little town that deserves to be visited, if only for the graveyard and church, which look like they were built for Gothic television dramas, or maybe a scene in the Welsh Braveheart to come.

But Maarat al-Noaman has broader significance as an archetype of Syria's neglected midsize towns.

Though the clashes are nothing new — the 1990s witnessed similar bouts — their persistence and breadth signal the intractability of Bahrain's conflict and mirror the unrest between the police and youths in other neglected Shiite towns.

And the government has delayed spending billions in approved funds in neglected Arab towns and cities.