The biggest population center on the Slope, a once vibrant community of art and commerce, lay in complete ruins.

The Holocaust saw the destruction of the once vibrant community.

Only the smallest shards of a once vibrant traditional culture remain in remote places like Dolpo.

Wine grapes are quickly replacing the once vibrant lima bean industry.

For whoever comes after us, he said sadly, his once vibrant voice reduced almost to a whisper, a warning.

The Mayor's destruction of a once vibrant, delightful and delicious area has been wrought.

But some alumni wonder if the sign is all that will be left of the once vibrant community one day.

"Our once vibrant economy didn't just shut down one day because our free-market system failed," he said.

The loss of his health struck the once vibrant Konstantin particularly hard.

President Mugabe has presided over the destruction of a once vibrant country.