Sentence examples for governing territory from inspiring English sources

The hope is that the group becomes a mechanism for channeling aid inside Syria and governing territory that it liberates from the Assad government.

"Jihadist groups are governing territory.

Unlike other guerrilla groups, the history of the Farc is one of holding and governing territory, across significant swaths of Colombia's hinterlands.

But now the council's new leader-in-waiting, Jas Athwal, can take his party into new governing territory, proving that the fringes of the metropolis, its more diverse parts at least, are increasingly ready to embrace it.

The Catholic Church, which before unification had governed territories in central Italy, remained implacably opposed to the new state and for decades instructed practicing Catholics not to vote in elections.

The implementation of tools of participatory democracy, as set forth for example in the River Contracts, for governing the territory, soil, water, biodiversity, landscape and existing historical and architectural heritage, gives rise to the awareness that the land is a common good.

Below the heading, he attached chapter 11 of the UN charter, which legislates for non-self governing territories.

Dispatched to "governors of non-self governing territories", it began: "The growth of anti-colonial activity is a feature of the general world situation with which we have to reckon these days.

Deng Xiaoping, the Chinese leader at the time, eager to preserve Hong Kong as a stable, prosperous and vibrant city, offered a solution for governing the territory, summed up with the catchphrase "one country, two systems".

Justice Johnson Lam of the High Court said the Immigration Department rule barring foreign domestic workers from permanent residency violated Hong Kong's Basic Law, the document governing the territory since its return to Chinese rule in 1997.

They signal a growing recognition of the impossibility of governing a territory as large as England from within the apparatus of Whitehall and the desire for a more responsive and locally rooted form of governance.