Sentence examples for battered infrastructure from inspiring English sources

This may have little practical effect given the country's battered infrastructure, but it could boost the opposition's credibility and finances.

Of the rest, $805m goes on food, $210m on health, and what little remains on Iraq's battered infrastructure: electricity, sanitation, education.The money is not nearly enough.

Both countries have interests in preserving potentially lucrative oil deals made under the Qaddafi government, and intend to compete for the contracts as part of the reconstruction and restoration of Libya's battered infrastructure.

The talks are seen as critical by other countries, which hold the key to $500 million in desperately needed aid to shore up Haiti's battered infrastructure and weakened governmental institutions.

No one interviewed in Sadr City today had ever heard one of the explanations by American officials, that a severely battered infrastructure suffering from years of neglect and recent sabotage would take time to revive.

The New York fans who'd braved New Jersey's storm battered transportation infrastructure were just as angry, as some of them made their way back to homes that have been without power or heat for much of the past week, along roads that may be flooded and blocked, and in cars running on rationed gas.

Years of cuts to public services and struggles to raise revenue in the impoverished city have battered its infrastructure and taken a heavy toll on its ability to meet basic public needs and attract new economic opportunities.

Dams and their electric generators are only the most visible aspects of the infrastructure battered by the earthquake: The region also is the site of the cities of Guangyuan and Mianyang, which are home to plants that build Chinese nuclear arms and process plutonium for the weapons.

The population of Southern Sudan's towns is swelling due to the return of displaced people and refugees, and increased economic activity, and current infrastructure, battered by decades of war, is completely inadequate for the rocketing needs in health services, water supply and education.

This reflects a shift toward improving security in important cities and rebuilding the war-battered infrastructure, over searching for remnants of Al Qaeda and the Taliban.

A10 Pentagon Shifts Afghan Focus The Pentagon is preparing to shift its focus in Afghanistan from hunting remnants of the Taliban and Al Qaeda toward improving security in important cities and rebuilding war-battered infrastructure, senior administration officials say.