"regional" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- As Frank Miller, a telecommunications entrepreneur with broad experience in the Russian market, puts it: "You've either got to have ties with the Kremlin or to regional strongmen."
- The line of shoguns gradually weakened after Yoshimitsu and increasingly lost power to the daimyō and other regional strongmen.
- Blatter has long received the support of a system of patronage run by regional strongmen.
- President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan, unable to defeat former Taliban guerrilla leaders intent on re-starting civil war, appointed some 50 regional strongmen as police chiefs last month.
- It is possible that these early, suburban villas were also in fact the seats of power (maybe even palaces) of regional strongmen or heads of important families (gentes).
- As these powerful regional strongmen were able to act independently of the central government, there was little coordination between the provinces and the government.
- Construction of numerous river valley settlements as well as hill forts indicates that political integration was driven by regional strongmen protected by their armed retinues.
- The regional strongman is gone, but nobody seems to want his stuff.
- However, the provinces were not about to give up their freedoms, where many caudillos (regional strongmen) and common folk were seething with ambition, fueled by the liberals' declarations.
- Juniper was a lawless city, ruled by regional strongmen.
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