Sentence examples for once vigorous from inspiring English sources
The state's news organizations, once vigorous watchdogs, have been decimated by a deep industry downturn.
This account of the expansive Seventh Symphony is at once vigorous and lean.
Her once vigorous body began to deteriorate, the muscles wasting and tightening, her heart and lungs losing condition.
Similarly, Mrs. Clinton and her aides have all but stopped their attacks on Mr. Obama, and the once vigorous Clinton war room has gone into a slumber.
A once vigorous man who commanded his gold-trimmed Arabian robes with flair, he now holds his gown wrapped tight like a blanket.
The surprise intervention by Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the country's top Muslim cleric, stunned reformers who had hoped to use their newly won strength in Parliament to revive the once vigorous liberal press.
Thus Mr. Calatrava recaptures that once-vigorous exchange between our cultivated and vernacular traditions.
His once-vigorous muscles have atrophied to the point where his arms are thin sticks, his torso emaciated.
But the decline of certain institutions, along with the outright collapse of once-vigorous competitors like Lehman Brothers, has consolidated the nation's financial power in fewer hands.
The economy is expected to grow by around 6% this year.Still, it is not in the character of Mr Rajapaksa's authoritarian regime, which has terrorised the country's once-vigorous independent media, to brook dissent.
Guided tours (€3.50) at 10am, 11am and noon every Sunday paint a poignant picture of the once-vigorous Jewish community of cultured merchants dwindling to 20 souls after the war.
