Sentence examples for badlands from inspiring English sources

Merah was thus not only part of an old style of terrorism – recruits making their way to the badlands of Pakistan to get trained and then returning to carry out attacks – but was also much less effective than predecessors such as those responsible for the 7/7 attacks in London.

Iraq's government closed Abu Ghraib in April 2014 and it now stands empty, 15 miles from Baghdad's western outskirts, near the frontline between Isis and Iraq's security forces, who seem perennially under-prepared as they stare into the heat haze shimmering over the highway that leads towards the badlands of Falluja and Ramadi.

But the desolate drives through redneck badlands proved instead to be our first experience of being loathed, hated and threatened by the few inhospitable Americans we ever met.

George Miller's return to the dusty Australian badlands received 17,081 mentions on Twitter, forums and blogs during the first week of the festival, with Todd Haynes's period drama about a relationship between two very different women (Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara) picking up 12,031 mentions.

You end up in Dalston but on the way you see some stunning Kent countryside, cross the Thames Estuary, and pass through some of east London's badlands.

They are willing themselves into the kind of obedient hysteria they were meant to have left behind generations ago in the badlands of Asia, along with hunger and snakes.

The insurgency has spread from the badlands along the frontier with Pakistan to much of the country's Pushtu-speaking belt, the Taliban's support base.

The German chancellor, Angela Merkel, is at the forefront, but she is also the subject of much mutinous talk since leading her colleagues into the badlands at last month's EU summit.

But in the last election debate neither Barack Obama nor Mitt Romney disagreed over what is now America's main tactic in fighting the long war on terrorism: ever-greater use of armed drones for targeted killings in the tribal areas of Pakistan, the badlands of Yemen and Somalia, and, no doubt before long, north Mali, where an al-Qaeda affiliate has recently taken root.

For all the trillions of dollars spent in support of George W. Bush's "war on terror" following the attacks of September 11th 2001, the loss of its training camps in Afghanistan, the relentless drone attacks ordered by Mr Obama on its sanctuaries in the tribal badlands of Pakistan and the raid in 2011 that killed its charismatic leader, Osama bin Laden, al-Qaeda is still with us.

The war against extremists in the tribal badlands is going nowhere.Instability has returned to haunt politics.