Sentence examples for key provinces from inspiring English sources

Reformers now lead the most important ministries and competent governors run key provinces.

Key provinces that have major roads linking the country, such as Helmand, Kunduz and Uruzgan, are heavily contested.

In seven and a half years the Taliban have grown in strength and now have more than a toehold in the key provinces across the south of Afghanistan.

Two other cables provide graphic detail of such "wealth extraction" on the part of the governors of key provinces in eastern Afghanistan.

Many companies are reluctant to invest in an area where security controls are still tight and key provinces remain under a form of martial law.

Under its charismatic leader, Hong Xiuquan, the movement developed into a religious state that controlled key provinces in southern and central China.

Earlier Tuesday, Yemeni military officials said the Houthis, aided by troops loyal to Hadi's predecessor, former President Ali Abdullah Saleh, took full control of the key central province of Bayda province.

Officials have already quietly dropped plans for a vote in one key province, eastern Ghazni, without bothering to inform voters or provide an explanation.

In the key province of Buenos Aires, home to almost 40 percent of the electorate, some of Kirchner's main allies seem to have come up with the answer: get tough on crime.

Despite his insistence that the job of recapturing so many prisoners would be made easier by the detailed biometric records held on all the men, including fingerprints and iris scans, the breakout is a blow to international and Afghan government efforts in the key province.

The DA's support has jumped by about a third - from 17% to 22% of the vote - but this is a party characterised by a yearning impatience for power and it will be disappointed that it failed to win control of the key province of Gauteng, which includes Johannesburg.