Sentence examples for regions long from inspiring English sources

Representative Maurice D. Hinchey, Democrat of New York, does not mention the economic benefits of natural gas development in regions long plagued by widespread unemployment.

Residents of Pashtun-inhabited regions long known for poppy growing have turned into outlaw Johnny Appleseeds, crossing the country with loans, expertise and seedpods to generate more opium for heroin laboratories, American and United Nations officials and Afghan farmers say.

Analysts note that casualties are inevitable as the police slowly penetrate regions long controlled by Maoists and that it is no surprise that the rebels thrive in states with weak governments.

The demonstrations quickly spread across the country, building off everything from misery inflicted by a devastating drought in the countryside to the utter unaccountability of security forces in rural regions long neglected by Mr. Assad's state.

His insurrection could also be seen as representing a revolt by anxious southerners against the prospect of reforms that could stanch the flow of cash to regions long addicted to state aid.It would be richly paradoxical (and thus wholly Italian) if the year of Italy's 150th birthday were to see not national unity but a bitter struggle between northerners and southerners for the soul of the right.

But much farther away, in regions long presumed to be the realm of comets and other icy bodies, there could be billions of rocky orbs circling the sun, a new study suggests.

Our study benefits from a relatively large number of HIV-infected cases, data originating from many centres in diverse geographic regions, long-term follow-up, and use of competing risk methods.

The region, long infested with organized crime, Dr. Flynn noted, has been depressed for a generation.

In fact, wine was produced in the region long before there was an Austria.

The plane went down in a region long controlled by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC.

But some challenges posed by the region long predate the Internet.