Sentence examples for capital local from inspiring English sources

On the outskirts of the capital, local council officials loyal to Mr. Ravalomanana erected barricades, dragging oil drums and planks embedded with rusty nails across the road.

It was the fourth suicide bombing in Khost Province in the last five months and the third in which the targets were in Khost City, the provincial capital, local officials said.

Groups taking part in the protest include War on Want, campaigners against the siting of missiles in the capital, local environmental organisations and Occupy London, which set up a camp outside St Paul's Cathedral earlier this year.

KABUL, Afghanistan — At least nine Afghan police officers and a civilian were killed early Thursday in a firefight between American forces and the officers in Ghazni Province, just south of the capital, local officials said.

In Ramadi, the provincial capital, local chiefs met senior American officers last December the Iraqis demanding that the Americans leave their city, the Americans requesting co-operation to help them to do so.Better still, senior Americans and Iraqis claim to have found a growing revulsion in Anbar with the methods of the Islamist fanatics.

In Quebec City, the provincial capital, local sculptors and builders chisel ice into crystal palaces and statues that every winter draw around a million visitors for the city's two-week Winter Carnival, widely regarded as the largest winter festival in the world.

Days after touching down in Dili, Timor's capital, locals filled me in with more detail.

Now that the northern regime has banned alcohol, and allows tribesmen to carry their traditional curved daggers in Aden, the former southern capital, locals gripe that they are being dragged back into the dark ages.The government shrugs off these complaints.

As recession and government downsizing have squeezed federal and state options, and partisan stalemate politics have crippled some state capitals, local leaders have pushed the front lines of change, if only by necessity.

A federal housing program provides funds for the construction of low-cost housing for low- and middle-income workers in the state capitals, local government headquarters, and other large towns.

Chinese immigrants are combining their social capital and local innovation factors to create significant wealth for individuals, families, cluster networks, and even local economic development.