"urban" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Military commanders say Mosul is the last major urban stronghold of al-Qaeda in Iraq.
- These cities were designated as urban strongholds for Volksdeutsche natives.
- Over the last year, he has also looked for votes in urban Democratic strongholds.
- The MQM contested last October's elections to the provincial legislature, taking 27 seats in its urban strongholds of Karachi and Hyderabad.
- These urban strongholds, hit hardest by job losses, are the places where Democrats have long ruled the streets.
- Their postings serve as the electronic age's equivalent of the outstretched thumb, and they hail largely from the nation's urban strongholds of left-wing politics.
- As part of Operation Phantom Phoenix, security operations were conducted against Al-Qaeda's last major urban stronghold in the city of Mosul.
- In testament to the grass-roots nature of the phenomenon, most of the festivals take place in smaller cities; none are scheduled for urban strongholds like New York, Chicago or Washington.
- But these doubts did not seem to influence voters, and Mr. Romney carried even such urban Democratic strongholds as Brockton and Quincy.
- Each district is represented by one senator and two Assembly members, and the most dramatic changes in district lines were made in Democratic urban strongholds in the north.
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