"region" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- But this city of 200,000 has become a test of the Americans' ability to extend their control to restive regions of Iraq.
- Otherwise, the Sunni Triangle will continue to be a fertile breeding ground for insurgents and a restive region.
- A1 The White House criticized Moscow for its "provocative" plan to send troops to seven restive Soviet regions.
- The American military has in recent days begun several large-scale military operations in an attempt to quiet the more restive regions, to permit a greater turnout at the polls.
- Ingushetia is one of Russia's poorest and most restive regions.
- "The Russian leadership has goals reaching far beyond Chechnya," including the cowing of other restive Russian regions.
- He cited Anbar Province, the restive western region long dominated by Sunni insurgents, as one example.
- Mohnyin Thado spent his 12-year reign keeping restive regions of Ava in one piece.
- They are fleeing as Baghdad's forces reassert control over the restive Kurdish region in the troubled aftermath of Iraq's defeat in the Persian Gulf war.
- However, Pakistani forces have struggled to maintain control over the restive tribal regions along the Afghan border, where Taliban-linked militants became firmly entrenched.
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