Sentence examples for ruling cities from inspiring English sources

ISIS has benefited from its experience ruling cities in Syria, and has apparently gotten comfortable with taking on the job of providing for rule of law and civic society, doing things like establishing a consumer protection bureau and filling potholes.

NEW York's role as the ruling city of the art world has held steady since at least the middle of the 20th century.

Both Peeta and I run to the window to see what we've only seen on television, the Capitol, the ruling city of Panem.

The confessional conflicts that dominated the relations between the ruling city authorities were only secondary to the peasants of the Huttwil league.

Few bother to consider what it means to have a national security state and a massive military machine deeply embedded in our ruling city and our American world.

Due to an appeals court ruling, city officials have claimed they are legally obliged to omit the provisions at issue from the city's bus contracts.

What's yours?" Per a 1998 federal ruling, city buses and subways are considered a "designated public forum," meaning that in most cases, the MTA can't restrict the content of ads displayed there.

At its height, the rebels controlled the heart of Castile, ruling the cities of Valladolid, Tordesillas, and Toledo.

None of this, however, means that the government is confined to ruling a city-state centered on Sana.

For a time, it seemed Slater and his all-conquering Slater Walker and the Conservative government of Edward Heath went hand in hand: Slater ruling the City, Heath ruling the country.

Apparently, the pressures of publicity and the mundane and expensive business of ruling a city have pushed even Isis to make some compromises.