Sentence examples for prosperous capital from inspiring English sources

One resident said he thinks the city is turning into Manama, Bahrain's prosperous capital.

But the prosperous capital cannot salvage the country from the spiritual malaise that makes people drink.

I watch the film in Valletta, Malta's prosperous capital, among an audience visibly irked by this odd transition.

Most were angry that the poorer, inland half of the state would break away and take with it Hyderabad, Andhra's prosperous capital.

The yawning gap between the prosperous capital city and the impoverished slum mirrors the deeper disparities in Brazil, one of the world's most unequal nations.

Middle-class whites drawn by a prosperous capital crowded into their church, and 1,200 blacks filled the other, the balconies creaking beneath the weight of worshipers.

Beirut re-emerges as a prosperous Arab capital under the guidance of Rafik Hariri, the billionaire Sunni prime minister and Saudi protégé who leads the city's reconstruction efforts.

More than 400,000 Ivorians have fled their homes, three-quarters of them from Abidjan, the country's once shinily prosperous commercial capital, most of them in the past few weeks.

But by 1995, Oklahoma City had become a reasonably but not ostentatiously prosperous state capital with an economy based on natural energy, in which the largest employers were the state and federal governments.

In May, I traveled to Tumaco, a coastal area cut off from Bogotá, the country's prosperous cosmopolitan capital, that has paid a heavy price for too many years of violence.

Shot in subdued and sometimes surrealist grey tones, the seven-minute film follows two families -- one from Hebei province, the heavily polluted industrial heartland of northern China, and one from Beijing, the prosperous Chinese capital that has seen several epic pollution emergencies in recent years.