Sentence examples for control the countryside from inspiring English sources

In addition, they were the chief instrument used by the Communist Party to control the countryside.

The so-called central government does not control the countryside and is corrupt.

In Istria, crumbling castles and heterogeneous traditions give locals a constant reminder of the successive empires that have fought to control the countryside.

While the foremost goal of the Sudanese government has been to repatriate the displaced to their home villages as soon as possible, that initiative has been largely stymied by the contention of both the refugees and the international relief agencies that as long as the janjaweed control the countryside, return is tantamount to a death sentence.

The insurgents control the countryside, and have a strong presence even inside cities like Kandahar and Ghazni.

The fact is, you control wildland fires by controlling the countryside.

The economic rationale for culling badgers is bound up with the question: who controls the countryside?

These days, with Democrats dominating the cities and Republicans controlling the countryside, suburbanites pick presidents.

In central, north and northeastern Afghanistan, the Northern Alliance controls the countryside and the roads are mostly safe from bandits.

At its peak, from the fourth to the eighth century, the city held about 25,000 people and controlled the countryside for miles around.

Lots of Talibs in madrasa have joined the fight but that doesn't mean we stopped learning". Like Qomendan, Mawlawi Abdul Halim talked about the Taliban strategy of controlling the countryside, establishing an alternative administration and squeezing the cities by eroding the government control.