Where once-thriving suburbs are now treacherous Wilds.    From Wordnik.com.  [My state just joined the civilized world.] Reference

Our city officials have failed to protect the once-thriving Garment.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nanette Lepore: The "Bottom Line" Driving All the Character from NYC's Garment District] Reference

JJ is a proud Native American who grew up in this once-thriving community.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rocky Kistner: A Forgotten Fisherman Fights to Survive the BP Oil Disaster] Reference

Chap Kusimba's research evokes a once-thriving landscape in the east African hinterland.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Place Without History] Reference

As she followed the railroad line, Victory Rose gaped in wonder at the ruins of once-thriving cities.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Green-Eyed Shwemyethna] Reference

Portugal in 1975, has killed more than 500,000 and left the once-thriving Angolan economy in shambles.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

Fighting has killed more than a half-million Angolans and bled the once-thriving nation of food and money.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

Ephesus, Priene, and Kaunos were all once-thriving port cities stranded inland when their harbors silted up.    From Wordnik.com.  [Miletos Tristesse] Reference

As Spain's once-thriving economy slides toward recession, debt collectors say they are doing a roaring trade.    From Wordnik.com.  [Spain's Showy Debt Collectors] Reference

Club owners say the government's runaway regulators are trampling the city's once-thriving entertainment scene.    From Wordnik.com.  [Taking Away Olympic Fun] Reference

Last summer I spoke with laid off workers in Gary, Ind., a once-thriving steel town staggering through hard times.    From Wordnik.com.  [Frances Beinecke: If the Green Economy Is Coming, America Must Start Leading Now] Reference

Business leaders like Messrs. DeMilio, Kelley and Price have long been pillars of this once-thriving Georgia town.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tough Times for Town Fathers] Reference

But the store closed in September 2007, leaving the once-thriving shopping district without its traditional anchor.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mayor Battles Vornado in Boston] Reference

TYSON: I want to go digging under the surface of Mars and see if there is fossil evidence for a once-thriving biota.    From Wordnik.com.  [Remarks By President And The First Lady At Millennium Event] Reference

Others have moved back to the ranch, trying to restore sanctity and self-sufficiency to their once-thriving community.    From Wordnik.com.  [West Texas polygamist sect members search for normalcy at ranch] Reference

As AIDS continues to wreak havoc here, reducing once-thriving families into broken down households headed by children.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jan 9, 2007] Reference

And manure seepage from factory farms has turned many of our once-thriving waterways into nitrogen-flooded dead zones.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jennifer Grayson: Eco Etiquette: Can You Be A Weekday Vegetarian?] Reference

The once-thriving resort began as a mineral water source and now is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rev. Moon’s Napa resort sold to developer] Reference

Israel has cracked down on a once-thriving pistachio trade, but some Iranian products are still relatively easy to find.    From Wordnik.com.  [In a Battle for All the Marble, Israel Can] Reference

Kenya's once-thriving tourist economy has been devastated by the crisis and tens of thousands of workers have lost their jobs.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

In a once-thriving business rife with labels of all sizes, only four major companies remain — Sony, Universal, Warner and EMI.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dr. Yes Will Hear You Now] Reference

Many of the farms ended up in the hands of Mugabe loyalists, however, and the once-thriving economy's agricultural base collapsed.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

In recent years, his disastrous policies have wrecked the country's once-thriving agricultural sector and triggered hyperinflation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Zimbabwe Leaders Strike Deal, Mbeki Says] Reference

That has sent waves through once-thriving emerging markets, sparking stock sell-offs and runs on currencies from Budapest to Sao Paulo.    From Wordnik.com.  [McCain's Bid to Turn] Reference

A white supremacist group thinks an empty building in this once-thriving timber community would be a good place to establish a compound.    From Wordnik.com.  [Oregonians Protest White Supremacist Compound] Reference

Once an important Maya and Franciscan center, Maní is now a humble hamlet, and its once-thriving monastery looks lonely and out of place.    From Wordnik.com.  [Letter from Mexico: Gods of Yucatan] Reference

A couple of months ago I was asked to speak at a community college in a once-thriving, now-declining coastal town in southern New England.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Universities in Trouble] Reference

Barton joins forces with his overbearing father to prevent the hostile takeover of their once-thriving slaughterhouse by a local competitor.    From Wordnik.com.  [Slaughterhouse (1987)] Reference

Souvenir vendors in Washington say once-thriving sales of the garish merchandise fawning over the president are nowhere near what they were.    From Wordnik.com.  [As Obama's popularity drops, so do sales of his merchandise] Reference

The last house on Holland Island, a once-thriving fishing community, has fallen, the Chesapeake Bay Foundation says according to The Baltimore Sun.    From Wordnik.com.  [Last house on Holland Island collapses] Reference

Oil spills, for example, which occur routinely here, have poisoned drinking water, devastated vegetation, and destroyed a once-thriving fish population.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jan 10, 2009] Reference

Anderson wrote the script with Anthony Jaswinski, and THR says it is set in a once-thriving city where shadowy forms cause residents to inexplicably disappear.    From Wordnik.com.  [Casting Notes: Christina Hendricks and Hayden Christensen Join New Projects | /Film] Reference

The families that remain live on memories of the past and the shared fantasy that the mills will reopen and the once-thriving town will experience a renaissance.    From Wordnik.com.  [Empire Falls by Richard Russo: Questions] Reference

From behind his “deal desk,” where he once rode like a rodeo cowboy roping deals from atop a mighty steed, he stared out at the desolation of his once-thriving business.    From Wordnik.com.  [Best Before...1985 - Part 1/2] Reference