Sentence examples for run-down network from inspiring English sources
The bankruptcy is the direct consequence of the way the railways were privatised by the Conservative government in 1996.The problem always centred on Railtrack, which was charged with operating a run-down network.
The unacknowledged armature of pan-India's urbanity is its run-down railway network, which carries 9 billion passengers per year – four times as much as China's state of the art network does.
The first wave of private airlines had simply tried to provide a better option to the slow, dirty, run-down train network.
And, as elsewhere in the developing world, run-down and expensive fixed-line networks drive people into the arms of mobile operators.
That said, I doubt the broadcast networks and most cable networks would be willing to take a chance on a show about a bunch of strong personalities and mixed-up weirdos stuck in outer space in a run-down spaceship.
The Treasury and transport ministers are looking at slimming down Network Rail to its core work of running and maintaining the railways.
And the task in that part of the country will not be easy, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld warned, saying that the anti-Taliban forces there are not yet strong enough either to bring down the government or to run down Mr. bin Laden's network, Al Qaeda.
It's worthwhile to run down the reasons why someone might opt out of the world's largest social network.
The site has a network of alleyways to replicate real life riots, where protesters might be "running down the wee alleyway and coming behind you", he said.
