Sentence examples for governorates and from inspiring English sources

Syria Trust works in seven governorates and runs five community centres … it provides legal assistance to internally displaced persons".

Some had come to Tahrir for the first time, from distant governorates, and camped out in tents for a sit-in.

The voting on Monday and Tuesday took place in nine of Egypt's 27 governorates and included the major cities of Cairo and Alexandria.

In that impasse, the American occupation continues to try to persuade Kurdish leaders to back off their insistence on one unified Kurdish state comprising three of the governorates and possibly additional territory, including some oil fields.

Kanan Makiya ("Present at the Disintegration," Op-Ed, Dec. 12) offers a convoluted plan involving "governorates" and "a committee of expert constitutional lawyers," finding tortuous ways to keep that country's disparate interests from going their separate ways.

Now that Ayatollah Sistani has rejected the system as not democratic enough, administration officials said they were intensifying efforts in all of Iraq's governorates and in cities and towns to hold local meetings to select delegates to the caucuses.

"For example, from April to July this year, security forces removed medical items from 17 out of 24 convoys destined for the Aleppo governorate, Homs governorate, and rural Damascus governorate".

Abydos is in Sohag, Egypt's poorest governorate, and it's always been common for boys to quit school early.

The governor is the highest executive authority in the governorate, has administrative authority over all government personnel except judges in the governorate, and is responsible for implementing policy.

It is bordered on the north by Al-Minūfiyyah governorate and on the south by Banī Suwayf and Al-Fayyūm governorates.

Asyūṭ, also spelled Asiut, or Assiout, capital of Asyūṭ muḥāfaẓah (governorate) and one of the largest settlements of Upper Egypt.