Sentence examples for thriving capital from inspiring English sources

Now this brawny, thriving capital of industry and finance had just passed a quarter-million population.

As the lord provost of a thriving capital city the answer is a clear no!

Finance gets rather short shrift: Britain had a thriving capital market and presumably this added to its edge in industrialising.

"We're very, very confident Kuwait will develop into a structured, cosmopolitan, gateway city and a thriving capital," says Jeff Strachan, Marriott's sales and marketing manager in Kuwait.Domestic investment is booming.

Although Bjelke-Peterson built Queensland into an economic power and Brisbane into a thriving capital city, he also demonstrated arrant chauvinism, hostility to social and environmental concerns, and disregard for alleged police corruption and brutality.

Scranton was a thriving capital of the coal industry in those days, but it quickly fell on harder times, and the regular evocation, in her work, of thriving rather than stagnant cities surely echoes her sense of the fine little town's rise and fall.

Kars is the nearest town to the spectacular ruined city of Ani, which was a thriving Armenian capital 10 centuries ago.

On a whim, he turned the small community of Vaslui into a thriving regional capital city within five years.

On a whim, he chose the small community of Vaslui and had it turned into a thriving regional capital city within five years.

Budapest is a thriving European capital with millions of tourists visiting the city to explore its beautiful buildings, steam baths, the Danube river and nightlife.

It is fair to say, though, that it is regaining its place as one of Europe's thriving, intriguing capitals.