Sentence examples for main capitals from inspiring English sources

Dr. Cosmopoulos suggested the Iklaina palace may have been a district administrative center subject to one of the main capitals: "a two-tiered government, or a sort of quasi-federal system," he called it.

British diplomats are still at the foothills of trying to discern thinking in the main capitals of Europe and some of this intelligence gathering is hampered by the imminence of elections in France and Germany next year.

In 1945, when Patton was forced to pull out, we failed to fortify Eastern Europe's main capitals against future Soviet tyranny, resulting in the U.S.S.R. taking over Eastern Europe and engaging the West in proxy wars for decades.

When the war was almost over, the Korean government went back to Seoul, the main capital.

The main capital of the Palas appears to have been Mudgagiri (now Munger) in eastern Bihar.

Their lobbying efforts in the main capital have yielded a degree of support.

Nor is it a substitute for risk-weights used in the main capital calculations under the Basel rules.

The awed moderator, speaking to Ms. Prokhorova after the debate, said she is her brother's "main capital".

Thang Long remained the main capital of Vietnam until 1802, when the last Vietnamese dynasty, the Nguyen (1802 1945), transferred the capital south to Hue.

Thus, because people represent Unesco's main capital, 60percentt of its annual $272 million budget goes to administration, and it is also vulnerable to bad management at the top.

American legislators tried to compel "private investment companies" (which included hedge funds and private-equity firms) to register with the Securities and Exchange Commission, their main capital-market watchdog.