• The taxation of the ruined area will, of course, be remitted for some years to come.

    ECONOMIST: From the archive

  • This debris has integrity, almost the way the ruined city in "Full Metal Jacket" did.

    CNN: Review: A journey down 'The Road'

  • "We are starting from zero, " says Dili native Jose Tilman, as he surveys the ruined capital.

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  • Poindexter, enthralled by the history, restored the ruined forts and transformed the ranch into a world-renowned resort.

    FORBES: Fighting A Two-Front War

  • Every day now, Halima's father Habibur Rehman, walks back to the ruined building hoping to find out something about Hamida.

    BBC: Dhaka Rana Plaza survivor's search for missing sister

  • Just then, the sun glimmers over the horizon, and the ruined city is flooded with warm rose gold.

    BBC: The kingdom of the crystal skull

  • Three thousand six hundred soldiers worked on the roof of the ruined reactor.

    NPR: 'Voices of Chernobyl': Survivors' Stories

  • The rodents he saw scurrying around the ruined buildings were to inspire his first work, according to a fan website.

    CNN: UK bids farewell to chiller writer James Herbert

  • You can still see traces of their ancient irrigation systems at the ruined cities of Shivta and Mamshit in the Negev.

    BBC: The Negev desert wine route

  • Cars splash through pond-sized puddles on the main street in front of the ruined streetlights of the looming House of Culture.

    NPR: Adventures Along the Caspian Pipeline

  • An ominous echo of that came with the news, from Russian commanders, that some 500 rebels had returned to the ruined city.

    ECONOMIST: Chechnya

  • No monument captures Mr Hussein's idea of his own place in history better than Babel, the ruined capital of the eponymous Babylonians.

    ECONOMIST: Monumental

  • The trek up to Geumjeongsan, the ruined site of the former Geumjeong Fortress, is one of the most scenic walks in South Korea.

    BBC: South Korea��s second city

  • But nor, it appeared, have Serb forces been reduced to the ruined shell that would force Mr Milosevic to sue for a humiliating peace.

    ECONOMIST: Breakthrough in Kosovo?

  • The bay, with the imposing Grand Hotel and the ruined castle overlooking it, has a natural beauty that still draws visitors, mostly daytrippers, in large numbers.

    BBC: NEWS | UK | England | Renaissance in Scarborough

  • "Mentally, I'm not all that well in the head, " said Anthony Gatti, who slept in a tent in front of the ruined home for weeks after the storm.

    NPR: 6 Months After Sandy, Thousands Homeless In NY, NJ

  • The same thing happened when the British government tried, and failed, to get the boss of the ruined Royal Bank of Scotland to surrender part of his pension.

    ECONOMIST: AIG and the president

  • But the ruined city has become a tourist attraction anyway.

    NPR: Ruined Beichuan Starts Anew

  • Likewise, BP is not solely responsible for the Gulf disaster, given the roles played by the Swiss rig owner, Transocean, and by Halliburton, which had cemented the ruined well.

    FORBES: BP, Nigeria And CSR

  • Further south still, just before the town of Mitzpe Ramon and opposite the ruined Nabataean city of Avdat , the Carmey Avdat Winery is a family-run, ecological farm that cultivates grapes using ancient irrigation terraces.

    BBC: The Negev desert wine route

  • On a fine summer day she drives to Nihonmatsu, 56km (35 miles) from the ruined nuclear plant at Fukushima, and notes her Geiger counter ticking higher: another step in the DIY defence against radioactivity.

    ECONOMIST: Japan risks another crisis over decontamination

  • Pushing forward, he seized my hand and without a word led me along the paths, never hesitating in his darkness, to the ruined Buddhist monastery of Mohra Moradu nestling in a gorge between hills, hidden from the wider valley.

    BBC: Following the Silk Road to the end of China

  • If all goes well, the United States is also expected to remove Sudan from its list of states that sponsor terrorism, appoint an ambassador to Khartoum and dole out several million dollars to help rebuild the ruined country.

    ECONOMIST: Sudan

  • When he spotted the first of the ruined houses, he broke into a gallop, but it was much farther away than he had thought, and before he got there a rabbit leaped up and bit him on the neck.

    NEWYORKER: The Insufferable Gaucho

  • He considered the possibility of swimming across, and under optimal circumstances the tiger might have attempted it, but the smell rising off the bodies turned him around, sent him back past the citadel hill and into the ruined city.

    NEWYORKER: The Tiger��s Wife

  • From inside the first ever mosque to be built in Turkey I peered down at the river that separates the country from Armenia, and at the ruined bridge which once carried travellers on the Silk Road on their way West.

    BBC: NEWS | Europe | Turkish journey: End of the road

  • Despite the unpleasant nature of the job - and the ruined and polluted environment in which they work - miners already earn far more than the average Romanian - and were often seen as the pampered children of the Communist regime.

    BBC: By Central European Analyst Jan Repa

  • And Here, Today, recounting an exile's return to the ruined and rebuilding Germany of the 1950's is a search into the past, a search for meaning in history, all contained in the account of a three week visit to Berlin in 1954.

    NPR: Excerpt: 'Gone Tomorrow'

  • The man who restored the ruined gardens of Moseley Old Hall in Staffordshire (soil neutral, altitude 250ft, annual rainfall 27in) to their original state in the 17th century, when Charles II knew the place, did not seem the sort of expert you would ask about growing potatoes.

    ECONOMIST: Graham Stuart Thomas, gardener, died on April 17th, aged 94

  • Those who complain that the city was ruined by Georges Pompidou and Richard Rogers in the 1970s echo those who complained in the 1930s that Baron Haussmann had ruined the city in the 1860s.

    ECONOMIST: Paris

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