"local" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- The local strongman - a Qaddafi, or Ayatollah's son, whoever - then raises the stakes.
- Some letters were signed by the Taliban; other attacks are likely the work of local strongmen opposed to girls' education.
- As the war tore apart Bosnian society, local and national strongmen emerged on all three sides of the conflict.
- But the most dangerous form of bet-hedging has been American support for local strongmen.
- The administration of the land is supposed to be communal, but local political strongmen often hold sway over hundreds of weaker men's fields.
- By then it was at most, as one commentator has put it, 'the unfortified hangout of a local strongman'.
- In addition, Japanese soldiers were drawn from many corners by local "strongmen" that controlled their own territories.
- The way to avoid this was to use some of your precious NGO funds to hire enough "security" that the local strongman left you alone.
- This represents Moses Carter (1801-1860) a local strongman who lived in the village in the nineteenth century.
- In nearly all the new states, former Communist Party officials retained power as local strongmen.
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