Sentence examples for calm capital from inspiring English sources

Some Kurdish civil servants haven't been paid in two months, sparking protests in the region's normally calm capital, Erbil.The government insists that elections will go ahead regardless of such troubles.

Check into the comfortable Holiday Inn Abu Dhabi (31st Street Airport Rd) - highly rated for its business facilities and just 15 minutes from the airport - then head straight into Abu Dhabi, the calm capital city of the United Arab Emirates, where mosques, parks and skyscrapers mingle comfortably.

The mood is calm, the capital's streets bedecked with red and white Tunisian flags after muted independence day celebrations on Friday.

BAGHDAD — Two sophisticated suicide bombings, including one on Tuesday in which 33 people died just outside Baghdad, and other recent violence are raising fears that jihadi militants and hard-line Baathists may be renewing their deadly partnership to threaten the largely calm Iraqi capital.

PAGE A6 FEAR OF UPTICK IN IRAQI VIOLENCE Two sophisticated suicide bombings, including one in which 33 people died just outside Baghdad, and other recent violence are raising fears that jihadi militants and hard-line Baathists may be renewing their deadly partnership to threaten the largely calm Iraqi capital.

(Reuters) AFRICA ZIMBABWE: CALM RETURNS TO CAPITAL After three days of sporadic riots over the soaring cost of food, the townships near the capital, Harare, settled into an uneasy calm as the police and soldiers continued their patrols.

TEN days before Guyana's election, on March 19th, all seemed calm in the capital, Georgetown.

The clashes on Thursday followed several days of relative calm in the capital and a peaceful protest against the police.

While General Franks was on the outskirts of Baghdad, there was an uneasy calm in the capital's center.

A10 Car Bomb Wounds 15 in Iraq A car bomb exploded at an airport checkpoint, wounding 15 Iraqis and ending three days of relative calm in the capital.

In a sign of relative calm in the capital, if not elsewhere in the country, the US embassy in Bangui reopened on Monday after closing down late in 2012.