Sentence examples for impoverished territory from inspiring English sources

Some accuse Hamas of fracturing Palestinian unity, whereas more radical Islamists accuse Hamas of betraying hopes of turning the crowded, impoverished territory into a proper Islamic state, noting that its security forces have crushed jihadist rivals with even more zeal than they ousted Fatah.

As his armored sport utility vehicle pulled past the battered yellow taxi, General Youssef, the commander of the police in Anbar Province, recalled thinking that the driver looked like so many men in this impoverished territory — another poor peasant trying to eke out a living.

Not only is Israel's right of "self-defence" in a territory it illegally controls upheld, while the same right is denied to the Palestinians, but the US, whose military aid to Israel runs to $3bn a year, has been re-supplying it with weapons as its troops and aircraft pulverised and massacred their way through an impoverished territory from which its captive people are unable to escape.

"Similarly, the failure of crops from Tunisia to Syria, caused by shortages of water, is largely responsible for the conflicts which have spawned Daesh (Isis)." And yet, Mr Gachet believes – and has proved – that some of the most barren and impoverished territories on earth sit atop immense natural reservoirs of water.

It is a force of ethnic Albanian guerrillas fighting for control of a strip of impoverished Serbian territory next to Kosovo.

The violent takeover also threatened to deal yet another blow to Israel's international image, already tarnished by war crimes accusations in Gaza and its blockade of the impoverished Palestinian territory.

Among them: Allergic and autoimmune conditions are far more frequent in rich countries than poor ones, even among genetically identical populations (West Germany far outpaced East Germany in their frequency, as does Finland compared with an impoverished adjacent territory under Russian control).

In the first leg on the shores of the Indian Ocean, the representatives of an impoverished, landlocked territory wedged between India and China will attempt to belie the Fifa rankings by overcoming a nation 36 places above them in 173rd spot.

A rising international chorus has called for a halt to the hostilities, which have exacted a heavy toll on civilians in the impoverished coastal territory.

Unrest has erupted in one of the least understood conflict zones of the former USSR: the tiny, impoverished Black Sea territory of Abkhazia.

Greens education spokeswoman Penny Wright warned that schools funding should not be left to the "impoverished" states and territories.