Sentence examples for rotten city from inspiring English sources

Yet urban districts typically already spend more than average without solving the problem of rotten city schools.

They're already there, in the "native quarter" of the city ("rotten with vermin and decay and the filth of centuries"), where Pepe Le Moko (Boyer), notorious thief, has been hiding from the police for two years.

The city was rotten; the nation is not.

Indeed, in a city of notoriously rotten infrastructure, the slum is a transport hub.

The damage this rotten bloke done in this city is close to unrepairable and I hope no one forgets it.

That act laid the basis for modern democracy in Britain by widening the males-only franchise and shifting power to the country's cities from the "rotten boroughs" controlled by rural grandees.

Smells, whether pleasant or rotten, go far to define this city, where fresh air often seems like an oxymoron.

Waterbury officials insist that the city is not inherently rotten, that at its core are good, hard-working people who have made unfortunate choices in the voting booth.

A sulphuric, rotten-egg scent wafts from the city's drains and bubbling mud pools, a constant reminder of the region's geothermal surroundings.

The force wasn't just rotten; it was flagrantly, exuberantly, entertainingly rotten — a city signature, like the food and the music.

In New Zealand, natural emissions of hydrogen sulfide blanket the city of Rotorua with the stench of rotten eggs, earning it the nickname Sulfur City.