Sentence examples for ring of modern from inspiring English sources

Buenos Aires, the national capital, has sprawled across the eastern Pampas with its ring of modern, bustling suburbs.

Designed in Civil War times to be the tallest building in the world, City Hall squats nobly at Broad and Market Streets, dimmed by the rust and grime of a century, bypassed by a ring of modern skyscrapers.

HAVANA — It has the ring of a modern Cuban fairy tale: A handsome ballet star returns to his native land and discovers an abandoned dance school, which he vows to restore to life.

Reactions to the inauguration have dwelled on Mr. Obama's ringing defense of modern liberalism.

The definitions often have a quaint ring to modern readers because the science of the age was either not well developed or was not available to him.

When I rang up professor of modern History and subculture expert Matthew Worley, he agreed.

Cool hoops of colour ring the modern rooms of Casa Coloniale like a billiard ball – it's a great location, too, just off the Piazza delle Erbe (from £65).

To be a mere treasurer sounds staid, something out of the old economy, compared with the modern ring of chief financial officer.

In his compulsive, magus-like peregrinations around London, he mines the most prosaic of routes – the M25, the "ring of steel" of the modern City, the "ginger line" of the London Overground – to conjure a palimpsest of plague pits, grog shops, molly houses, and the arcana of occult societies, from Masons to yuppies.

ALMERE and Osdorp are two of the working-class suburbs that ring Amsterdam, modern planned towns of blocky flats and town houses interspersed with parks and football fields.

The result, 17 years later, was Tolkien's masterpiece, The Lord of the Rings, a modern version of the heroic epic.