Sentence examples for governed area from inspiring English sources

The word refers to a semi-autonomous, Native-American governed area of land home to around 300, 000 Navajo people.

He said that the Pentagon's biggest fear in Africa was the spread of ISIS — that the group would stake a hold in a remote or weakly governed area, and use that territory as a base from which to expand.

Baga lies at the remote northeastern edge of Nigeria, a lightly governed area of high penetration by Boko Haram militants who are easily able to slip across borders into Chad and Cameroon.

The north has always been a remote and poorly governed area, with an underlying level of corruption," he told AFP. "Some district police and border guards are being paid off, some even rent out their own firearms".

Chamba state was run by Ranas, petty rulers who were allocated locally governed areas known as "fiefdoms" and treated them as their own virtually independent kingdoms.

Yasir Arafat's Fatah movement said an Israeli undercover unit had "kidnapped" two of its men in an Israeli-governed area near Ramallah in the West Bank.

Turkish Cypriots, with less than a fourth of the island's population but currently in control of 37percentt of its land, would have to cede about a fifth of their territory to the Greek-Cypriot-governed area.

The Israeli Army tonight ordered a clampdown on movements in and out of Palestinian-governed areas as army forces scoured the West Bank and Gaza for suspects and witnesses to the sniper attacks.

The opposition has demanded an investigation into the possible use of public funds in PRI-governed areas and money from illicit sources, including organized crime.

It also offended Lobengula by demanding that he stop the customary Matabele raids on the Mashona people who inhabited the white-governed areas.

As always, on board were volunteers from the Syrian Arab Red Crescent, which is state-supervised in government areas but also has self-governed local branches in rebel territory.