Sentence examples for critical cities from inspiring English sources

President Obama and other Western leaders have committed themselves to an "enduring presence" whose main goal will be to insure that the Afghan Army stays together, protects Kabul, and holds critical cities and roads.

In a matter of days, critical cities, including the nation's administrative capital, Yamoussoukro, and the main cocoa-exporting port of San Pedro, fell to Mr. Ouattara's forces with little combat.

US Airways, which has suffered widening losses in recent months, far beyond those felt at other airlines because of the economic slowdown, now has to devise a new strategy to prosper as an independent airline serving millions of passengers in critical cities like Washington, New York and Boston.

In the wake of Athens's disastrous defeat in Sicily, Alcibiades sailed to Ionia with a Spartan fleet and succeeded in persuading several critical cities to revolt.

When the sample size is small some critical cities such as Cape Town or Lagos would be left out of the sample.

The timing of the aid package is critical, city officials say, coming as New York faces a sizable budget deficit.

Not far from the rows of bungalows beloved by carbon-conscious New Urbanists, Aurora Avenue, a critical city artery, features stunning views of Mount Rainier — and boarded-up motels.

Mr. Bloomberg has taken enormous political heat for his conviction that tax increases were preferable to making drastic cuts in critical city services.

When Confederate authorities abandoned Knoxville and the strategically critical city of Chattanooga without a fight, hundreds of pro-Confederate citizens left those cities with the Confederate Army, leaving a largely pro-Union populace in place to welcome the Federal liberators.

The testing ground informing these decisions right now is the critical city of Kandahar; there, American hopes rest on a long-delayed push into Afghanistan's second city and the birthplace of the Taliban.

Most of the critical city government services continue to be provided, but thousands of state and city government workers are still being told to stay home as many downtown office buildings remain without telephones or even electricity.