Sentence examples for control over their provinces from inspiring English sources

The rebels were never able to secure control over their provinces, and were easily suppressed.

A quick recap: General Musharraf (1999-2008) unleashed a military operation against the Baloch nationalists who wanted control over their province and its resources.

Normally, provinces maintain control over their natural resources but in cases of environmental protection that power is transferred to the national congress.

They also contended that banning mining and hydrocarbon drilling in periglacial areas would strip provinces of control over their natural resources in addition to impeding economic activity.

She said she would continue with a program, which she has questioned in the past, to give provinces more control over their finances and policy.

After Mr. Lougheed cut oil production in Alberta, the prime minister relented, and in 1981 acknowledged that provinces had full control over their resources.

Mr. Crocker interpreted the nascent interest in particular by Sunni majority provinces in having more control over their affairs as "a budding debate about federalism among Iraq's leaders".

But years of accumulated anger and disenfranchisement are now driving some of the country's largely Sunni Arab provinces to seek greater control over their security and finances by distancing themselves from Iraq's Shiite leaders.

Afghan and foreign troops, however, have less control over more remote areas in provinces like Nuristan and Kunar in the east near the border with Pakistan.

The commanders used the U.S. support to consolidate their political control over different provinces or sub-provincial areas.

Rulers of the Ming dynasty (1368 1644), seeking to tighten their control over the province, used military units to promote migration of the Chinese people from the Yangtze River (Chang Jiang) valley to Yunnan.