| In spite of the run-down facilities, the ma-and-pop owners and the friendliest and most approachable people in Hong Kong. |
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| Towering over the run-down streets of Hawaiian Gardens, the casino sports a 10-foot-high volcano that smolders and periodically spits out fire. |
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| The elegantly run-down synagogue evoked an archaic or abandoned temple from a nearly forgotten age. |
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| There is a rather run-down amusement park with roller-coasters, a tower restaurant, and a dolphinarium presently under reconstruction. |
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| I was told that the more run-down the town, the better the music and spareribs. |
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| Like most early projects, it replaced an area of run-down, overcrowded, squalid dwellings on the fringes of the downtown area. |
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| The houses were run-down, with peeling paint and broken windows, the glass still littering the ground. |
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| Even the run-down Roman roads which served England after a fashion petered out in Scotland. |
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| He experienced a deeply weird upbringing, living with his mother and many stepfathers in a run-down trailer. |
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| Let's put people back to work rebuilding vacant homes in run-down neighborhoods. |
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| In 1970, the Green Lantern and Green Arrow put their powers aside and loaded themselves into a run-down pickup truck. |
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| You enter the building and are walked up to what looks like a run-down orphanage. |
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| It was just a run-down house that should be closed off, not some haunted looking mansion where normally nobody would step foot in. |
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| Returning from FNQ, as one drives south from Cairns, there are so many of these dilapidated, run-down sugar mills. |
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| In the facades of run-down buildings and the cattle-like movement of market-goers, Godard illumines the sense of defeat and disillusionment here. |
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| If doctors and nurses go from the rural sector then farmers and workers will follow, and that will mean a run-down of our productive sector. |
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| Being quick studies helped the couple transform a small, run-down house into a cheerful, colorful home. |
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| Mark was not surprised to see that the inside of the building was as run-down as the outside. |
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| It's often artists who are the pathfinders, opening up studios and galleries in run-down districts. |
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| Away from the gleaming skyscrapers, China's cities are ringed by run-down shacks, with festering heaps of garbage by the roadside. |
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| The centre, a former run-down inner-city mill, was started up a decade ago. |
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| Visitors entered a run-down building in a downscale neighborhood to discover what appeared to be a decrepit, abandoned reptile zoo. |
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| For now, here is a quick run-down of how to use connectives to make complex sentences from simple ones. |
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| When the charity bought it, the run-down dwelling was being refurbished with modern Spanish patio tiles and plasterboard walls. |
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| We were well isolated from the run-down neighborhoods and troubled conditions of the city. |
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| Named after the run-down apartment building the band was eventually evicted from, The Lawrence Arms give us straight-up, Midwestern punk rock. |
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| In 1998, it was declared a Housing Renewal Area, where run-down zones are improved through renovation and clearance. |
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| But the jet set no longer found Maidenhead as alluring, and Skindles became a run-down venue for discos. |
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| A project to turn a run-down area of Kendal into a haven for disabled people has got the support of the town council. |
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| Residents have complained that the area has become run-down, suffers at the hands of thugs intent on joyriding and burglary. |
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| Dispersal means refugees get dumped in run-down housing areas with no proper facilities and support. |
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| With a screeching halt, the driver stepped on the brake just in front of the run-down apartment building that Adrian now called home. |
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| A multi-million pound chance to improve run-down housing areas in Rochdale was unveiled by the Government on Wednesday. |
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| This was the beginning of the 20-year cycle, buying run-down catering businesses and building them into success stories. |
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| What about sorely-needed education and health policies to restore the badly run-down public systems? |
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| But in general, India's infrastructure is as creaking and run-down as ever. |
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| Householders living in one of the most run-down areas of west Hull are being offered deals worth tens of thousands of pounds to help them move. |
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| Apart from still being extremely tired and run-down, there is also so much to be done. |
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| When Sheri started feeling tired and run-down, she realized she needed to make changes to improve the quality of her life. |
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| Those times I find myself ready to snap at my son for nothing, feeling run-down and tired, overwhelmed. |
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| A small, slightly run-down craft barreled through the small opening, then leveled out quickly a few hundred yards above the ground. |
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| These are the obvious reasons for feeling tired or run-down, but for many female athletes, they aren't the only ones. |
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| Adults, particularly older ones or those with a run-down immune system, can however also contract shingles from a child with chickenpox. |
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| This run-down, tin-roof dwelling in lonely bush country is a gorgeous chunk of rustic Australiana. |
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| I gazed malevolently at the dreary, run-down apology of a holiday town and wished myself somewhere else. |
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| In its depiction of a rather run-down and seamy side of New Jersey, it threatens to be taken seriously. |
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| But the reality for working class people was run-down estates and insecurity. |
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| The pilot announced that we would have to divert to Pskov, a run-down garrison town near the Estonian border, 100 miles to the south. |
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| At the other end of the market are drive-in, do-it-yourself shops, which tend to be run-down and ill-lit. |
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| He'd gotten emancipated minor status at seventeen and rented a small, run-down place. |
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| Ever wondered how the NHS struggles by in the grotty, run-down and ultimately grim areas of this country? |
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| But when a run-down circus arrives in town to give its last performance, Joe discovers kindred spirits in its collection of dreamers and misfits. |
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| So we'd laugh and smoke our pipes, and laugh again, sitting in the old run-down barn. |
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| There is no escape from violence in either sphere, no pastoral alternative to the bleakness of the run-down city. |
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| Our first impressions were that it seemed a very run-down and poor city with an abundance of homeless people. |
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| Here is a run-down on their qualities and, more importantly, their chances of featuring in the tournament. |
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| As Akhundov showed Reiss the run-down, architecturally eclectic mansions of a century earlier, the guide rhapsodized in beautiful phrasing. |
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| The Bridgwater end is probably the least attractive, showing more than its fair share of the graffiti, discarded trash and general dowdiness of a run-down town. |
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| When car trouble forces them to venture further in search of help, they find that the town has some frightening secrets involving its run-down old wax museum. |
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| He said this showed the system was slow and didn't adequately recognise the impact commercial development can have in regenerating run-down areas. |
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| I am disgusted how these present traders have allowed our beautiful shopping area to develop into such a run-down state. |
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| Here, we can see the run-down pier and the Grand Hotel on the left hand side and the distant view of Rhyl and Colwyn Bay on the other side. |
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| Coun Summerfield's poor excuse is that he was trying to raise cash for the run-down chapels on the site. |
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| An ITV crew will film a short feature on why their project to replace the run-down town centre play area should win the Lottery money. |
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| What if the play works so well that the runner is caught so far off base and a run-down ensues? |
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| The office design and build specialist has transformed a run-down unit in St Mellons. |
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| Homeowners in run-down areas are turning down a free offer of new houses. |
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| The district hospital was built to replace the 220-year-old city infirmary in Fisherton Street, the geriatric unit at Newbridge and run-down buildings at Odstock. |
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| Four of Manchester's communities want the chance to transform neglected and run-down park areas into something everyone in the community can enjoy. |
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| The managing director arrived at the company in 1999 as part of a team that had bought a run-down business which had been making losses for five years. |
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| Everyone in this line looks tired, run-down, and much too old. |
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| The bare stage and black backdrop are occasionally relieved by smoky atmospherics that evoke perhaps a run-down dance hall in a beachy part of town. |
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| Given the increasingly run-down nature of these command economies, the oil price shocks dealt a crucial blow to regimes running an already bankrupt economic system. |
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| They are more likely to go to poorly funded schools in run-down buildings, and more likely to be taught by uncertified and poorly trained teachers. |
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| But a run-down green site can soon be turned into a silk purse unlike the pig's ears of multi-storey apartments the developers are now erecting around York suburbs. |
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| Rachel is napping on her couch in the middle of her run-down apartment. |
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| Sadly this defines the recent history of Bradford whereby a once-bustling, thriving city has slipped into a dreadful, run-down, empty and soulless place in terminal decline. |
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| Jake quickly crossed the street in front of the small run-down 7-11 on Main Street and ran in before the cold air had the chance to nip at his nose. |
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| They are old, run-down, and don't have gas gauges or odometers. |
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| Oh, sure, I've cringed a little when neighbours have strolled past of an evening, casting judgmental looks at the poor old place, all run-down and neglected as it was. |
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| The white pebbledash house is one of a series of run-down semis, strung along one side of the typical south Leeds street, which are mainly owned by Asian families. |
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| The run-down ones stand out stark and skeletonized, yet still meaningful and inspirited like the collected rocks of Stonehenge and the exposed walls of Indian ruins. |
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| Tired, fluey and run-down, I wanted to venture out to a restaurant about as much as I wanted to sit through my children's three-hour cartoon video. |
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| It's all very well for old fogies, with their pensions and their paid-up mortgages, to wander ghost-like about their business in a tatty, run-down town, resisting change. |
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| It tells the owner of the development that by gentrifying a run-down area of the city, their speculative accumulation actually has a positive, even indispensable social role. |
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| A number of run-down plots are also turning into dumping grounds, and this is leading to damage on the boundary fence, which could lead to problems with neighbours. |
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| We arrived at the toilet cubicle which was a run-down little shack made of bricks, with a smaller room the size of an outhouse in which was the actual dunny. |
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| Their run-down Griffin Park will not be up to scratch in the top-flight next season if they win promotion. |
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| The sprint champion, has bought a run-down corner store which he plans to rebuild in his hometown of Sale, near Manchester. |
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| Like everybody who had the flu in those days, I was pretty run-down and pekid. |
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| Your boss wants to give the board a quick run-down our project in half an hour. Just five minutes and some question time. No pressure. |
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| The infielders spent hours in spring training on run-down plays, but probably never practiced it again during the season. |
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| However, if they are run-down, parks can blight communities, become no-go areas and mean communities are deprived of the space they need. |
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| Today, she lives on a run-down rented farm near Bristol as a housesitter, struggling to make ends meet. |
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| Nikki Udria opened the scoring when she successfully made it home after getting caught in a run-down when Alexa Peterson wasn't able to lay down a suicide squeeze bunt. |
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