He is almost the last survivor of the tradition that once ran the church.
The floating markets, especially Taling Chan, remind you of the canals that once ran through the city.
A church bureaucracy that once ran urban America cannot keep order in its own house.There is no doubt that the current scandal will continue to explode.
The first Bush, the last president from the old East Coast Wasp establishment that once ran the country, may have been the nicest leader America ever had.
But Islah, the Islamist group that once ran the social complex at the entrance to this city, is all but gone.
Now, a solar electricity project — perhaps the largest in the state — is planned for the same location, by the same company that once ran the mine.
Various plans for ferries to Manhattan have fallen through, and the Long Island Rail Road line that once ran between Rockaway and Manhattan was abandoned decades ago.
Among them is the Cuban crocodile, which has retreated to Cuba from a range that once ran from the Cayman Islands to the Bahamas.
The riser it was trying to cut is a mile-long pipe that once ran from the wellhead up to the drilling rig, and now lies snaking along the seabed.
Bob Diamond has spent nearly his entire adult life curating the Atlantic Avenue train tunnel in Downtown Brooklyn, an abandoned 19th-century rail line that once ran beneath Atlantic Avenue between Court and Hicks Streets.
The diamond-laced wire saw was being used to cut the riser, the milelong pipe that once ran from the wellhead up to the drilling rig and now snakes along the seabed.
