Sentence examples for troubled lands from inspiring English sources

Rather than glamorize his protagonists through their ties to troubled lands, he humanizes the troubled lands through their ties to his unpretentious protagonists.

Zambia Landlocked and abutted by several troubled lands, Zambia has long sought to cast itself as an island of stability in Central Africa's turbulence.

As the military historian Max Boot wrote in The Weekly Standard, "Afghanistan and other troubled lands today cry out for the sort of enlightened foreign administration once provided by self-confident Englishmen in jodhpurs and pith helmets".

The signs of the industry's new business model can already be seen at the very earliest stages of heroin production, in the distant and troubled lands where poppies grow.

Called up from the across the city and state, thousands of New York Guard members spent 12-hour shifts at scenes of devastation around the trade center that they and other Americans thought occurred only in distant, more troubled lands.

The quandary for Mr. Obama is that while his trip clearly presented an opportunity for him — even many Republicans conceded that he seized it masterfully with eight days of appearances in troubled lands, meetings with foreign leaders and visits to soldiers — it also fueled the questions his critics have used to try to undercut him: whether he is arrogant and taking his election for granted.

Pakistan remains a deeply troubled land.

He retains his optimism - even about his troubled land.

He sounds like a diplomat from a troubled land, wearily agreeing to a peace deal.

CAMBODIA'S CURSE: The Modern History of a Troubled Land, by Joel Brinkley Public­Affairss, $27.99).

[Page A12.] Discussions also began among four African presidents on Zimbabwe's troubled land reform program.