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Educating Syria’s RebuildersLONDON – In Aleppo, the devastated Syrian city and former rebel
stronghold
that has now been retaken by Syrian government forces, there was a glimmer of hope even as the bombs were falling.
On November 14, the front page of The New York Times led with the following description: “Army tanks and fighting vehicles blasted their way into the last main rebel
stronghold
in Falluja at sundown on Saturday after American warplanes and artillery prepared the way with a savage barrage on the district.
It has been suggested that the US will demand dismantlement of an enrichment facility in the mountain
stronghold
of Fordow.
The stage is being set for transforming Islamabad into a Taliban
stronghold.
First, the SNCF is a CGT stronghold, and to allow different contractual arrangements for new recruits would weaken the union’s influence at the national level.
Whereas M5S’s
stronghold
is in Italy’s poorer south, the League’s is in the country’s prosperous north, where a large small-business community harbors fears of immigration, globalization, and high taxes.
After that, the PAS absorbed many of Anwar’s followers, expanding its influence from its
stronghold
in the north to the entire country.
The end of fossil fuel’s
stronghold
will come when we have cheap alternatives, especially in developing countries.
Our ruling social democratic party has its
stronghold
in Romania's rural areas.
In the electoral district that includes Derna, commonly viewed as an Islamist stronghold, the liberal-leaning National Forces Coalition (NFC), a grouping of more than 60 parties and hundreds of local civil-society organizations, won 59,769 votes, while the Justice and Construction Party (JCP) of the Muslim Brothers (MB) received only 8,619.
The coup may have been a desperate last-ditch effort, given the prospect that they were about to lose their last
stronghold
in Turkey.
Thirty-five of the thirty-eight senior officers hail from one small area north of Kabul consisting of Parwan province (where the Bagram airport is located) and the nearby Panjshir valley, long the Northern Alliance's
stronghold.
PRINCETON – The world’s most dynamic economy is governed by a communist party, whereas its previous capitalist
stronghold
is under the misrule of a man whose companies have gone bankrupt six times.
He and his coalition, called Cambiemos, had triumphed over the Peronist Justicialist Party in that October’s legislative and gubernatorial elections, even in the Peronists’ traditional
stronghold
of Buenos Aires Province.
The House of Stark makes up 24% of the EU electorate, and has its
stronghold
in the north (namely Germany, Denmark, and Sweden).
A victory for the GNA would turn Libya into an Islamist
stronghold
and a beachhead for undermining Egypt and the UAE’s authoritarian vision for the region.
"That is impossible," said Don Quixote: "I say it is impossible that there could be a knight-errant without a lady, because to such it is as natural and proper to be in love as to the heavens to have stars: most certainly no history has been seen in which there is to be found a knight-errant without an amour, and for the simple reason that without one he would be held no legitimate knight but a bastard, and one who had gained entrance into the
stronghold
of the said knighthood, not by the door, but over the wall like a thief and a robber."
For what dread of want or poverty that can reach or harass the student can compare with what the soldier feels, who finds himself beleaguered in some
stronghold
mounting guard in some ravelin or cavalier, knows that the enemy is pushing a mine towards the post where he is stationed, and cannot under any circumstances retire or fly from the imminent danger that threatens him?
And how is it possible to help losing a
stronghold
that is not relieved, above all when surrounded by a host of determined enemies in their own country?
All this I say, exalted and esteemed lady, because it seems to me that for us to remain any longer in this castle now is useless, and may be injurious to us in a way that we shall find out some day; for who knows but that your enemy the giant may have learned by means of secret and diligent spies that I am going to destroy him, and if the opportunity be given him he may seize it to fortify himself in some impregnable castle or stronghold, against which all my efforts and the might of my indefatigable arm may avail but little?
But Heaven had reserved them for a strange destiny, and after having, on the 20th of March, escaped from Richmond, besieged by the troops of General Ulysses Grant, they found themselves seven thousand miles from the capital of Virginia, which was the principal
stronghold
of the South, during the terrible War of Secession.
The panorama passed before their eyes like a flash, save when the steam concealed it fitfully from the view; the travellers could scarcely discern the fort of Chupenie, twenty miles south-westward from Benares, the ancient
stronghold
of the rajahs of Behar; or Ghazipur and its famous rose-water factories; or the tomb of Lord Cornwallis, rising on the left bank of the Ganges; the fortified town of Buxar, or Patna, a large manufacturing and trading-place, where is held the principal opium market of India; or Monghir, a more than European town, for it is as English as Manchester or Birmingham, with its iron foundries, edgetool factories, and high chimneys puffing clouds of black smoke heavenward.
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