Sentence examples for as its province from inspiring English sources

But China still has 1,500 missiles targeting Taiwan, and has not renounced the threat of force to take back the island, which it still claims as its province.

Most of them bitterly oppose the move to restrict or ban betting on the Internet, an activity that the federal government has claimed as its province.

Beijing still claims the island as its province and hopes recently improved ties can lead to eventual unification.

Iraq has at last recognised Kuwait, which it once claimed as its 19th province, and has begun to return the national archives it seized during its 1990 occupation.The significance of these manoeuvres should not be exaggerated.

Resentment persists against EU countries that have recognised the independence of Kosovo, which Serbia still claims as its southern province.

The impoverished "kingdom in the sky" is surrounded on all sides by South Africa and sometimes disparagingly referred to as its 10th province.

Taiwan is instead governed by the Republic of China, who were ousted from governing the whole of China in 1949; the PRC doesn't recognise its sovereignty, and claims Taiwan as its own province.

For years Russia has treated the region as its exclusive province, insisting on buying oil and gas at below-market rates through Soviet-era pipelines, while re-exporting it at a markup.

As a result of the commission's report, a referendum of the electors among the 34,000 Europeans in the country was held in 1922; the choice was between entry into the Union of South Africa as its fifth province and full internal self-government.

Precisely for this reason, I immediately jumped on the opportunity to visit Warsaw and Lublin, as well as its surrounding province of Lubelskie.

But it has also led to the rapid depletion of resources that China cannot import, such as clean air and water.China is building a huge stock of grimy heavy industry, just as its coastal provinces are getting rich enough to care about the consequences.