Sentence examples for rundown district from inspiring English sources

It comprises very long, mostly static shots of the residents of a rundown district of Lisbon.

The rundown district has long been a bastion of the PPP, which had put up with or worked with Lyari gangsters for decades.

The genre first emerged in 2008 in Madinet al-Salam, or Salam City, a rundown district on the fringes of northern Cairo.

Her group, part of the church of Saint Sabina, is trying to halt the tide of murder that is ravaging what is left of the community of Englewood, a rundown district of Chicago.

Those responsible for attacks in Madrid in March 2004 were living in a rundown district only a mile or so from the station where most of their victims died.

Growing up in a rundown district of Los Angeles, Venus can hardly have imagined that she would establish herself as an international star on something called a mown lawn in a city many thousands of miles away.

That will cover operating costs and pay for sports venues, transport links, waste-treatment plants and the refurbishment of the rundown port district.

In a noisy Ethiopian restaurant in London's rundown Paddington district, he pitches his voice barely above a whisper to foil the Western intelligence agencies he fears.

The authorities were questioning 115 men after the police raided a building in the rundown Mongkok district and broke up a gambling operation that used huge fighting crickets.

He takes me to a small house in the rundown La Crique district which hosts tambor lessons and where, afterwards, the musicians stick around to show off their skills.

The area used to be a rundown fishing district, but it has livened up in recent years: artists have painted all the doors with multicoloured murals, and there has been an influx of bars and restaurants.