Sentence examples for prosperous past from inspiring English sources

Yonkers had a grand and prosperous past.

Kars is a city in suspended animation, a museum of its more prosperous past.

But several of Fort Bragg's attractions recall a more prosperous past.

In the prosperous past -- and still today -- herds of cattle roamed the endless pastures known as the pampas.

The challenge is great: an underdeveloped part of China will need to lift some of Asia's poorest and most unstable countries with it.Yunnan has a prosperous past.

To rub yet more salt into Detroiters wounds, the symbols of the city's once prosperous past can be seen all over.

Other more contemporary cultural attractions, including the Zacheta National Gallery (Malachowskiego 3, 00 48222 827 5854, zacheta.art.pl) and the Centre for Contemporary Art (Al Ujazdowskie 6, 628 1271, csw.art.pl), reflect a prosperous recent past as Warsaw is one of the big boom towns of Eastern Europe.

Greeks might gain the opportunity to shape a future that, though perhaps not as prosperous as the past, is far more hopeful than the unconscionable torture of the present.

But cutting costs and selling assets hasn't turned GM prosperous in the past.

A prosperous and relatively untroubled past to be sure, but the past nonetheless.

The time to fix the roof, politicians of all stripes have been fond of saying the past few prosperous years, is while the sun is shining.