Sentence examples for majority provinces from inspiring English sources

Mr. Crocker interpreted the nascent interest in particular by Sunni majority provinces in having more control over their affairs as "a budding debate about federalism among Iraq's leaders".

Meanwhile in northern Iraq it is the Kurds that have taken full advantage of the overthrow of Saddam Hussein by consolidating their hard-won autonomy in the three Kurdish majority provinces.

Elsewhere, the governors of Sunni majority provinces Salahaddin, Anbar and Ninewa are firmly pro Abadi, and in Anbar, tribal leaders have not only asked for the support of Shi'a paramilitaries - unthinkable 5 years ago - but even asked for more coalition air strikes in Ramadi.

Khan said when reminded on 27 March 1971 that he was in charge of a majority province—"I will reduce this majority to a minority".

First, some of the leaders who were instrumental in Pakistan movement could not wriggle themselves out of the movement mode and continued their practice of projecting Islam as a rallying call in places like Khyber Pukhtunkhawa (a Pashtun majority province) as the Pashtun nationalists had initially refused to join Pakistan.

Over all, the results remained divided along sectarian lines, with Shiite-majority provinces choosing Shiite parties and Sunni-majority provinces choosing Sunni parties.

The secular parties fared best in the four Sunni-majority provinces.

Sunni-majority provinces began talking about greater autonomy or even breaking away from the central government.

Hardliners in Tehran have been cock-a-hoop over recent unrest in Shia-majority provinces in eastern Saudi Arabia.

There are three Kurdish-majority provinces, and no one doubted that Barzani could muster the necessary votes to doom the entire constitution.

The result is that the AKP gained the support of just over half of voters in Kurdish-majority provinces in the 2007 elections.