Sentence examples for hands of warlords from inspiring English sources

They are "putty in the hands of warlords", says Hamish Young of UNICEF.

But when the Americans left, many of the Stingers remained unaccounted for, left behind in the hands of warlords across Afghanistan.

During the Chinese Revolution of 1911 12, the moderate landed elite seized power, but the province soon fell into the hands of warlords and became in the mid-1920s the power base of Sun Chuanfang.

There is also growing concern about the concentration of power in the hands of warlords and their allies -- and the repression of alternative political organizations -- in advance of general elections scheduled for June.

The BBC's Paul Wood in Kabul says the last thing Nato wants is for its military campaign to end with parts of Afghanistan in the hands of warlords and an opium mafia.

2) Earnings from minerals put weapons in the hands of warlords by strengthening their global networks of financial supporters.

Instead, they allowed much of the country to fall into the hands of cutthroat warlords.

"It's just laughable the amount of money being put in the hands of these warlords, telling us they are doing things they aren't doing," Mr. Harrison said.

Failure to beef up the international security force now, extending its reach to cities and rural areas beyond Kabul, plays into the hands of those warlords and bandits who will keep Afghanistan from realizing the stability required for reconstruction and for the creation of a viable government before an Afghan army can be trained.

He said none of the materials are believed to have reached the hands of Somali warlords in Mogadishu.

The seat of sovereign power has moved steadily through time from the hands of provincial warlords to nation states to supranational institutions.