Sentences with phrase «control over the region»

In order to... re-establish unchallenged U.S. control over a region which it regards as its backyard,» the report continues, «the U.S. has sacrificed... Nicaraguan lives... and caused untold suffering.

The United States has historically backed Israel in order to maintain some control over the region; virtually everything else in the area is anti-U.S. So Israel was convenient as a kind of base for the U.S. - it could send fighter planes to Israel instead of having them fly from inefficiently far away; and plus, if things got really hairy in the middle east, Israel could do some of the actual fighting too.

Iran and the Ottoman Empire were competing for control over the region with Russia.

By the eighth century BC, the Greeks had control over the region and, in the second century BC, Calabria was conquered by the Romans.

The Elder Scrolls Online will have solo and group questing, public dungeons, guilds, and massive PvP warfare that sets the game's three player factions against one another for control over the region of Cyrodiil and the throne of Tamriel.

The Elder Scrolls Online will have solo and group questing, public dungeons, guilds, and massive PvP warfare that sets the game's three player factions against one another for control over the region of Cyrodiil and the throne of Tamriel.

Not exact matches

This was a problem that threatened to destabilize society and the control the church and nobility had over the region.

There is no globalisation of political regulation, state or democratic institutions which provide guarantees and exert control over decisions affecting the various regions and populations of the world, in the general interest of the world at large.

If the human stream of occasions of dominating awareness is to be influenced by many regions of the brain at once, and is in turn to exercise control over many such regions, it must be directly in touch (both spatially and temporally) with large portions of the brain.

Since local communities can have no sustainable economic well - being without considerable control over their own lives, this would require relative economic self - sufficiency in relatively small regions.

The Democratic Left was firmly in control of local politics, media, and academia, and the gloom of intense political correctness had settled over the region.

In the earlier phase the European colonial powers were not in a position to establish complete control over immense regions so remote from their shores.

Simultaneously the US is using the situation created by the Gulf War in 1990 to legitimise their military control over the biggest oil region in the world.

The powers in the region tried to resist this take - over by questioning their role in economic globalisation (re-establishment of the control of exchange in Malaysia), or in the case of China and India, by completely suppressing their participation in this.

Aliansi Gerakan Reform Agrari (AGRA), a national peasant federation in Indonesia in statement expressed that «Indonesia, as with the whole region, is also threatened by the growing corporate control over agriculture and consequent erosion of traditional seed resources.

Having its troops stationed in Transnistria also allows Russia to maintain control over the former Soviet region, which it regards as its sphere of influence, and to have a narrow foothold in Central Europe, also a worrisome prospect for the EU.

In southern Colombia, armed groups exert strong social control over large areas, impeding any information, including on human rights violations, from leaving the region.

Iran's growing influence in the region, control over proxy governments in Syria and Lebanon, hold over parts of Iraqi politics and involvement in the civil war in Yemen has led to the strange bedfellows of Israel and Saudi Arabia finding common ground in counteracting Iranian influence.

Once in place, the metro mayor will have control over the whole Sheffield City Region combined authority area.

The metro mayor for Liverpool City Region will take control of strategic transport powers, including over the key route network, franchising bus routes and smart ticketing — he or she should use this to make travelling across the city region eRegion will take control of strategic transport powers, including over the key route network, franchising bus routes and smart ticketing — he or she should use this to make travelling across the city region eregion easier.

Areas A and B were Palestinian areas; they had full control over area A but Israel retained security control of Area B. Area C, easily the largest region, consisted of land (including the settlements) Israel retained control of.

The move, agreed with leaders of the region's 10 councils, will give local politicians greater control over billions of pounds of public money,

When business rates are devolved to the Assembly as part of the new Wales Bill, the Welsh Government should look at the possibility of giving full control over revenue to new city and county regions.

Wasit province, a central Shia - dominated region of the country, was today handed over from US to local control.

He has control over the whole Liverpool City Region combined authority area and works with existing city leaders and the mayor to take forward their strategic plan.

A deal struck in 2015 with the then chancellor George Osborne paved the way for the region to take control of power over transport, strategic planning and skills and receive # 900m over 30 years.

A: «We need to give Upstate more control over its spending decisions, whether its Medicaid or workers» comp or other costly mandates that Albany pushes onto this region,» Lazio said.

The Food and Drugs Authority (FDA) in the Ashanti region says it has confiscated over 4,000 tablets of controlled prescription only medicine from 21 chemical shops in the Ashanti region.

De Blasio and Gov. Cuomo, along with MTA officials, have been gridlocked over who has responsibility for properly funding mass transit — the governor who controls the region's transportation authority or the mayor whose city depends on subways and buses.

Dividing immune cells tend to synthesize messenger RNAs with shorter 3» regulatory regions, possibly because less control is required over RNA functions.

There was no significant increase in adverse events with any of the treatments over the control group, nor was there any difference in malaria incidence between groups during the one year period after the study treatment was stopped, suggesting that monthly administration of DP is a safe and effective treatment for reducing malaria among infants in regions with year - round transmission and high resistance to antifolates.

«What we're seeing is that this regulatory region exercises exquisite control over where, and how much, KITLG expression occurs,» said Kingsley.

The researchers discovered that the ability to stop depended on the activity of the medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC), a region of the brain implicated in executive control over behavior.

«With recent events, such as censorship of Internet traffic, suspicious «boomerang routing» where data leaves a region only to come back again, and monitoring of users» data, we became increasingly interested in this notion of empowering users to have more control over what happens with their data,» says project lead Dave Levin, an assistant research scientist in the University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies (UMIACS).

Scientists know that our memories are stored in specific areas of the brain, but there has been some debate over whether a single brain region can store different memories that control opposing behavior.

Rates of infection with the deadly superbug Clostridium difficile were highest in the Northeast region of the country and in the spring season over the last 10 years, according to a study published in the May issue of the American Journal of Infection Control, the official publication of the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC).

Since the pulses of light exert highly precise control over the neurons, it opens the possibility of very selective studies of firing patterns in brain regions of interest.

For example, a one - unit increase in the percentage of body fat stored in the abdominal region was associated with a 53 percent increase in the risk of developing loss - of - control eating over the next two years, whereas total percentage body fat did not predict loss - of - control eating development.»

Over this 100 - year period, O'Gorman found that average snowfall decreased substantially in many Northern Hemisphere regions in warm - climate scenarios compared with the milder control climates, but that snowfall amounts in the largest snowstorms did not decrease to the same extent.

The researchers believe the TRN fine - tunes the brain's control over local brain regions, enhancing or reducing slow waves in certain regions so those areas can communicate with each other, or inducing some areas to become less alert when the brain is very drowsy.

And when farmers set their usual fires to clear brush for planting, the dry conditions caused many to burn out of control, causing one of the biggest burn years on record and leading to a pall of smoke over the region.

Especially in regions where women may not always have the control over sexual encounters, the introduction of a cheap, self - applied ointment derived naturally from bananas may mean more protection and power to women whose family production preferences are too often undermined and ignored.

And it hangs around in the brain, stimulating the regions that control sleep, mood, and concentration, slowly dissipating over three to four hours (68)-- which is plenty of time for you to get through your morning inbox, survive the staff meeting, return a few calls, and then get ready for lunch.

Set in the fictional location of Hope County, Montana, USA, the plot follows an unknown sherrif's deputy as they attempt to wrest control of the region back from the dangerous cult that has taken over this section of rural America.

Inequality in economic development between regions led to jealousy; as well as control of access to and control over resources can be a cause of conflict between individuals and groups.

If sales of e-books are dropping, it is more likely because of pricing, and losing control over your «purchases», when a company goes belly - up or stops servicing a region / country.

European traders arrived in India the following century, eventually asserting dominance over Mughal - controlled regions and ultimately deposing the empire via military action.

By 1786, Great Britain had formally wrested control over the area from Spain and began administering the region as a colony.

Glad to see they cared enough about Seattle and the region to help keep the Mariners in Seattle, and now is good time to give control over to local interests

For over 200 years, that region was controlled by the Hornburg Kingdom, but that kingdom was brought to ruin by a civil war 8 years ago.