Sentence examples for centers of support from inspiring English sources

The repercussions of the latest fighting, which began in Najaf last week and quickly spread to other centers of support for Mr. Sadr, intensified when officials of the state-owned oil industry said Iraq's largest oil fields, in the southern region around Basra, had stopped pumping oil on Monday after Mr. Sadr's militiamen had threatened to attack oil fields, refineries and pipelines.

Although General Musharraf theoretically has unlimited powers as a military ruler, he is constrained in practice by strong centers of support for Islamic militancy in the Pakistani officer corps and in the hard-line Islamic groups that have proliferated across the country in the last decade.

Also on Sunday, a car bomb exploded in Aleppo, Syria's largest city, a day after two similar bombings struck the capital, Damascus, fueling fears that the conflict was becoming increasingly violent, with attacks on relatively quiet cities that are centers of support for President Bashar al-Assad.

Pakistani officials consider the area a center of support for extremist jihadist groups, including Lashkar-e-Taiba.

The Pentagon has long viewed Yemen as a center of support for Osama bin Laden, the Qaeda leader.

Basra is a predominantly Shiite city and a center of support for the government of Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki.

That, we hope, leaves him the large center of support he'll need it to fix this country's broken agriculture policy.

In Baghdad, American military officials announced a curfew of 4 p.m. to 8 a.m. in the capital's Sadr City neighborhood, home to more than a million Shiites and, with Najaf, a center of support for Mr. Sadr.

Al-Harethi's last known satellite telephone call, an hour before the Predator struck, was to a number in the United Arab Emirates, an American ally that is also known to be a center of support for Muslim extremists.

The area of the protest, the Abobo neighborhood, has been a center of support for Mr. Ouattara and has often been the scene of violent clashes between security forces and civilians.

Other officials were already worrying aloud about the safety of their families in places like Surt, a center of support for Colonel Qaddafi that has also come under attack by NATO planes.