"rural" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- It was disclosed recently that Zimbabwe, which had restricted those aid programs to the governing party's rural strongholds, was holding more than 300,000 tons of grain.
- Museveni returned with his supporters to their rural strongholds in the Bantu-dominated south and southwest to form the Popular Resistance Army (PRA).
- Churchill was not a very great fan of the constituency, regarding it as inferior in social status to a rural Conservative stronghold.
- After World War II, Temanggung Regency was one of the areas in central Java where the Communist Party (PKI) had is rural strongholds.
- At the edge of the clearing surrounding this rural stronghold the traveler stopped briefly to survey the layout before him.
- Even if he were conceded all the disputed contests in his rural strongholds, he nevertheless had lost every state but Tennessee and Alabama.
- Mr. da Silva swept most of Brazil's coastal cities, while Mr. Collor was believed to be doing well in his rural strongholds.
- The PCF is also strong in the Cévennes mountains, a left-wing rural anti-clerical stronghold with a strong Protestant minority.
- City dwellers would be the biggest beneficiaries of the new approach, a point not lost on the Dole campaign, which would like to broaden its voter base beyond traditional Republican suburban and rural strongholds.
- The Socialists lost most votes in middle-class urban areas, while holding their ground better in their rural strongholds.
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