Sentence examples for embattled areas from inspiring English sources

"Indian authorities and Maoist insurgents have threatened and attacked civil society activists, undermining basic freedoms and interfering with aid delivery in embattled areas of central and eastern India," Human Rights Watch said in a report this week.

A number of suspected fighters contacted Syrian fixers, who guide journalists through checkpoints and embattled areas, and offered financial reward to any who would help arrange a kidnapping.

As the American troop surge peaked over the past two years, Taliban insurgents began contesting parts of this central province, flowing in from more embattled areas of the country.

The iPhone peripheral is designed to monitor signals sent to the smartphone's internal antennas to determine whether the device is transmitting data that can put users at risk of detection – particularly people in precarious positions like journalists in embattled areas.

Some civilians fleeing the area said the Pakistani Army had imposed a round-the-clock curfew across much of the embattled area, preventing thousands of people from leaving.

Carl Weisbrod, the president of the Alliance for Downtown New York, said he hoped the race would stimulate business in the embattled area.

One of the two stadiums was in Abyan Province, an embattled area 15 miles from here, where scores of Yemeni soldiers and police officers have been killed by Al Qaeda in recent months.

"What a night, what a night," said a woman in her 50s who lives in Inshaat, a troubled neighborhood that borders Baba Amr, the most embattled area of the city.

Still, trucks entered the embattled area on Wednesday bearing food and other supplies, and the price of groceries, which doubled during the violence last week, was starting to decline, residents said.

Relief officials had earlier said the plan to send supplies into the embattled area was extremely sensitive, given the reluctance by some on the government side to see supplies going into rebel-held areas.

The term "Bilbao Effect" is used to describe buildings that become major tourist attractions and centers of international culture, revitalizing embattled geographic areas.