Sentence examples for prosperous former from inspiring English sources

Perhaps no island suffered more damage than Grenada, a relatively prosperous former British colony where tourism and the spice trade are the mainstays of the economy.

For instance, Paul Cuffe, a prosperous former slave and businessman in post-colonial Massachusetts spearheaded one of the first back-to-Africa movements and helped return settlers to Sierra Leone in 1815.

Like Fletcher Reede, Bennett LeBow, who is Liggett's corporate boss, had been a happy, high-spirited workaday liar... "We suspect," his more prosperous former confederates said, "a desperate attempt to force one of the other cigarette manufacturers to take over his financially troubled and failing tobacco interests".

We met Daymo properly, filling in the blanks of his wrongful arrest at last, saw Antoine on the final day of his more prosperous former life, checked in with Sonny and Annie as they walked down empty streets hand in hand with the winds whistling around them, saw Albert shuttering up his house and Ladonna and her family struggling through long traffic jams.

The poet Horace, for instance, was given a top-notch education by his father, a prosperous former slave.

Keen to be seen as stable and prosperous, the former Soviet republic of Georgia ran ad campaigns in which it measured itself, on metrics such as the history of its viniculture or its smooth bureaucracy, against France or Australia.

"More Blair" is proffered by prosperous looking former ministers, and naive enthusiasts in cabinet who demand more public service reform, more private sector involvement, more markets and talking tough on the disabled, the public sector unions, and public spending all to encourage the "aspiring" and discipline the lumpen.

Macron also wants to invigorate the European Union as a global power and spurn the populist nationalism that threatens to undermine its success in building peaceful and prosperous relations among former adversaries.

Here in Kazakhstan, the most prosperous of the former Soviet republics, Mr. Xi formalized the $5 billion deal for Kashagan, which for the first time places China in a consortium alongside the big international players: Exxon Mobil, Shell, Total and the Italian company ENI.

-- In this once-prosperous, now-depressed former mill town in western Massachusetts, residents casually rattle off the names of all the factories that shut down long ago and of the businesses getting ready to leave.

PERCHED atop Minnesota's once-prosperous Vermilion Iron Range, the former mining town of Ely now snuggles against riches of a different sort — the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness, a 1.1-million-acre federal reserve of forest and granitic lakes.