Sentence examples for northern rule from inspiring English sources

The northerners respond that it was army rule, not northern rule, that ruined the country, though many concede that it would not be bad if a southerner could be found to be the next president.

Though on paper Languedoc was subject to northern rule, in fact it was independent, and not just politically.

In the southern port city of Aden, a former British colony built in the dusty crevices of an extinct volcano, the Hirak, who for years bristled at the region's marginalisation under northern rule, have emerged from the shadows.

No doubt there is a clique in the north who wants to dominate the country but the masses in the north do not want this and they do not benefit from northern rule".Such talk alarms Nigerians from other areas, notably the Ibos in the east, marginalised since the 1967-70 Biafran war for independence.

Today, half the world's container trade, and much of its oil, pass within 5km of Aden, but northern rule, and the country's fierce protection of its independence, have turned the port into a backwater.Where liners once unloaded their passengers every half-hour, a new yacht now arrives perhaps once a week.

Yet Hadi rarely left his heavily guarded presidential compound perched high on top of a hill, while in the streets below most of the people saw the war as a war of liberation from northern rule from Sana'a, and Aden as the capital of an independent southern state.

Until the last days of its Northern Territory rule in 1910, however, South Australia passed no protective legislation for its Aboriginal population.

He has not, so far, been able to tempt in a heavyweight from the south-west, the home of the Yoruba people who feel particularly aggrieved by decades of northern military rule.In this section Maybe, minister War in the heart of Africa After the bomb Keeping its powder dry ReprintsInstead, there have been calls in the state-owned media for civil servants to run their ministries.

At the height of its military power around 750 B.C., the ancient kingdom of Kush in northern Sudan ruled over Egypt and Palestine, inaugurating what historians call the rule of the 25th dynasty and the black pharaohs.

On Friday, a suicide bomber blew himself up at a military checkpoint in Gao, the northern town ruled by Islamist fighters until just two weeks ago.

Backed by the United States and France as a buffer against Libya, the dictator, Hissene Habre, a French-trained military tactician from northern Chad, ruled from 1982 to 1990.