Sentence examples for recently prosperous from inspiring English sources

It is tough not to fear a return of those trying days, tough not to worry that the city, so recently prosperous, could collapse into urban decay once again.

Like the conservatives in northern Italy, who resent having to spend their taxes on the poorer south, De Wever's Flemish voters, who have recently grown prosperous on multinational business and trade, would prefer to keep their money for themselves.

Like the conservatives in northern Italy, who resent having to spend their taxes on the poorer south, [Bart] De Wever's Flemish voters, who have recently grown prosperous on multinational business and trade, would prefer to keep their money for themselves.

With a tiny population (no more than 3 million) and reasonable amounts of oil, Oman is – or has been until recently – a fairly prosperous place.

The town "had thought of itself until recently as a prosperous timber community, had sawn down its adjoining forests with purposeful enthusiasm, but was at the time of the purported apparitions a place impoverished and psychologically defeated, a casualty, in its view of things, of urban liberals and their representatives in government, who wanted all the trees left standing," Mr. Guterson writes.

FOUR years ago, the Bridgehampton National Bank vacated the cramped building on Main Street that had been its headquarters since 1922 and moved a quarter mile west into a spacious new home next to the prosperous and recently renovated Bridgehampton Commons shopping center.

That identity becomes less clear by the day, as some of the largest spasms of unrest in recent years have bubbled up in some of China's most prosperous places, most recently in the city of Ningbo, last month, when thousands of people squared off against riot police in a sometimes-violent protest over the expansion of a chemical factory.

More recently it has produced a prosperous nostalgia industry.

"This economy is powerful, productive and prosperous," George Bush boasted recently, and by many yardsticks he is right.

No place has shown that hostility recently more than Mandeville, a prosperous and quiet town in the South Coast area that rarely makes big news.

Ayush is from a more prosperous background, and recently signed on to a new film, "Shyam's Secret," and is promoting it in Cannes for five days.