Sentence examples for imposing a reign from inspiring English sources
Human Rights Watch accused the rebels of imposing a "reign of terror" during its weeklong occupation of the area around Masiaka, a town 45 miles east of Freetown.
That was because of a new bout of squabbling between Mr Uribe, the opposition and the judges that has overshadowed the bills.At issue is "parapolitics": links between politicians and right-wing paramilitary groups, many involved in the drug trade, which fought left-wing guerrillas by imposing a reign of terror on parts of Colombia, and whose leaders were persuaded to demobilise by Mr Uribe.
Gordon told me in his office recently that the Sheriff has imposed "a reign of terror" on Maricopa County.
The admiral was said to have imposed a reign of terror on the Spanish colonists of Hispaniola, who were flogged, disfigured or executed without trial for minor infractions.
Yet some of these were quickly taken over by drug-traffickers and many imposed a reign of terror equal to or worse than that of the guerrillas.
There is no doubt that the so-called Islamic State (Isil) group has imposed a reign of terror on millions in Iraq, Syria and Libya.
The "student union" had become a pro-Gbagbo militia led by fake students, and it imposed a reign of terror based on racketeering, rape and murder.
Otori Takeo, the warrior who narrates some of the sections, is essentially benign; he slaughters many antagonists, but only to impose a reign of peace.
FOR more than a decade, the Arellano Felix clan imposed a reign of terror on Tijuana, to protect its hold over the export of cocaine and other drugs to California.
Here is his version of how the Taliban imposed a reign of terror after the fall of Kabul in 1996: "Women were no longer working in government departments and the men throughout the city had started to grow beards.
This neighborhood first came under assault from Shiite militias, then from pro-Al Qaeda Iraqi Sunnis, who moved in on the pretext of protecting the Sunnis from the Shiites and then imposed a reign of Islamist terror on them.
