Sentence examples for significant towns from inspiring English sources

He investigated that terrain by traveling through nine states, focusing on the Deep South and stopping in musically significant towns like Memphis and Clarksdale, Miss.

Marines pushed into three significant towns along a 75-mile stretch of the Helmand River south of Lashkar Gah on Thursday, encountering sporadic resistance that grew throughout the afternoon, a Marine spokesman said.

"Two very significant towns which lost their trains in 1965 and there's now the beginnings of a campaign to get part at least of these lines reopened".

Other significant towns include Veun Sai in the north and Lomphat in the south, with populations of 2,000 and 3,000 respectively.

Firstly, he chose to use a broad gauge of to allow for the possibility of large wheels outside the bodies of the rolling stock which could give smoother running at high speeds; secondly he selected a route, north of the Marlborough Downs, which had no significant towns but which offered potential connections to Oxford and Gloucester.

Iraqi Sunnis, fed up with a government that excludes them from power and a share of Iraq's oil wealth, seemed little perturbed by the offensive, which already had captured significant towns in Anbar province and the former insurgent strongholds of Fallouja and Ramadi.

In my Cyprus book [1975] I probably visited every significant town and village on the island.

Khaṣab is the only significant town in the sparsely populated Musandam Peninsula.

Rochdale is a significant town for the Lib Dems that was held by the legendary Cyril Smith between 1972 to 1992.

If that offensive had continued, the Serbs' only significant town, Banja Luka, would have fallen, as would have Karadžić's regime.

It is a stunning site, hidden from the world by thick jungle until graverobbers discovered it in 1976, and its network of paved roads, terraces and raised circular plazas lies three days' gruelling trek from the nearest significant town.