Sentence examples for financing warlords from inspiring English sources

Mr. Stepanenko, in more relaxed moments, confides suspicions that Russia's human rights movement has been financing warlords in Chechnya.

American and Afghan officials say opium is financing warlords like Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, local militias, the Taliban and possibly Al Qaeda.

Weak governments, in turn, are less able to stop corruption and the production and smuggling of arms and drugs, which may in turn help finance warlords, insurgents and terrorists.Instability breeds instability.

No one wants to be tarred with financing African warlords — especially the glamorous high-tech firms like Apple and Intel that are often the ultimate buyers of these minerals.

The group was formed in the middle of last decade as a small, armed militia for Somalia's Islamic Courts Union, which had risen to power after driving a group of C.I.A.-financed Somali warlords from Mogadishu.

The meeting, announced by the State Department, comes as the administration is under fire from critics who say the Central Intelligence Agency's covert campaign to finance the warlords may have thwarted counterterrorism efforts inside Somalia and empowered the same Islamic groups it was intended to marginalize.

Many of the warlords finance their armies by cultivating poppies.

Warlords finance their predations in part through the sale of mineral ore containing tantalum, tungsten, tin and gold.

Now a gentrified warlord was financing the renovations.

Why not send the military ashore to rout the pirates and the Somali warlords who finance them and take a 30% cut of the ransoms?

So let Banyan attempt an answer.On the basis of his first month in office and, more important, his two years as finance minister in the government of warlords and technocrats formed after the Taliban's fall, Afghanistan would be in much better shape than it is.