Sentence examples for new capitals from inspiring English sources

The country, once known as Burma, has a long tradition of building new capitals, said Thant Myint-U, a Burmese historian.

Here, again, the country's Japanese heritage surfaces: the bullet trains are the fastest and unfussiest way of getting between the old and new capitals.

It is budgeted at a whopping $45 billion, but history shows that schemes to build new capitals tend to overrun their budgets wildly.

The late third and fourth centuries were a time when the shape and power-balance of the empire was shifting – new capitals sprung up accordingly as emperors established their new power bases or tried to dominate existing territories.

Indeed, many of the most famous planned cities were new capitals – Brasilia, Canberra, Abuja, Canberra, Ottawa, New Delhi – that, whatever their other shortcomings, benefited from the employment opportunities and economic uplift of being a national administrative hub.

From a distance, the new capitals look traditional; up close, you see that the acanthus leaves and scrolls have been replaced by abstract crinkly forms (mathematically determined, "like fractals," Andraos says).

New York was the new capital of world painting.

The new capital helps Marshall & Ilsley.

C.A.A. needed the new capital to expand.

Established reinsurers are also committing new capital.

Los Angeles is the new capital of California".