Lebanon's north, far more religiously conservative than Beirut, is a stronghold for the Sunnis.
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Other mobile-makers, such as Apple, RIM, and Samsung, currently have a stronghold on the market.
Until the recent bad weather, the Yorkshire Wolds was considered a stronghold for the barn owl.
Siena -- the small Tuscan city where the banking giant is headquartered -- is a stronghold for Bersani.
The company has grown from a stronghold in her current hometown of San Francisco to nearly 20 cities.
Top fashion designers within India have had a stronghold over this iconic garment.
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Coahuila is thought to be a stronghold of the powerful Zetas cartel, says the BBC's Julian Miglierini in Mexico City.
With capital turning towards U.S. equities and away from emerging markets, Petrobras appears as a stronghold of value and future growth.
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Lopez Obrador was mayor of the capital city from 2000 to 2005, and the city is a stronghold for the PRD.
Products that are gaining a stronghold in the mainstream market include bamboo flooring, cork tiles and composite countertops.
The slum is a stronghold of gangs once loyal to Mr Aristide.
East Java is a stronghold of support for the Indonesian Democratic Party headed by Megawati Sukarnoputri, the daughter of the country's first leader.
Varanasi, a stronghold of the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), has been decked up with flags of different parties jutting out from shops and buildings.
As the rebels entrench their position, they build a stronghold in a part of the world where institutions are fragile and people are vulnerable.
Nobody would seriously accuse Austria of being a stronghold of fascism and intolerance, even though some parts of the media give this rather biased impression.
Expect Cisco to leverage its expertise in both hardware and software to build a stronghold that will become increasingly difficult for smaller companies to penetrate.
Apple is not stupid, they created the App Store to gain a stronghold on the entire software industry, after a decade of perfecting their business strategy.
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The Urban Institute, a policy research group, found that 12% of families in New York (a stronghold for successful, working women) use nannies, compared to 6% nationwide.
At the moment Egypt is something of a stronghold - about 10% of the population are Copts - descendants of the ancient pre-Muslim inhabitants of the country.
Previously, Microsoft and Research in Motion had a stronghold on the enterprise market, but no longer as professionals go mobile with the iPad and want alternatives to the Blackberry.
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Other analysts have suggested that it would be difficult for al Qaeda to gain a stronghold in Somalia because its radical agenda is unpopular in the moderate Islamic country.
Local traditions dating back to at least the 18th Century suggest that the then ruined building was either a stronghold of the crusading Knights of Malta or a bishop's palace.
Some delegates voted for Clinton, but Rep. James Clyburn said he felt momentum gathering when the delegates from Arkansas, a stronghold for Clinton, cast all 47 of their votes for Obama.
Improved promises of performance have allowed the top-two selling sports beverages in America, Gatorade and Powerade, to maintain a stronghold on the sports beverage and performance market in the United States.
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He told Mexican radio that "everyone had found out about the party", prompting the authorities to send hundreds of police officers and soldiers to the town of Apatzingan, a stronghold of La Familia.
But reports of violence can be overblown, the leader of an expatriate group in Mexico said, describing his trip last month to a butterfly sanctuary in Michoacan, a stronghold of Mexico's La Familia cartel.
Sadr City, the scene of Tuesday's deadly blast, is a stronghold of Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr and where some of the capital's most intense fighting in recent months has occurred between Shiite militia members and Iraqi security forces.
The big ticket item was the purchase of a majority stake in Puma in 2007, which gave the company a stronghold in the sports and lifestyle market and a premiere brand as the centerpiece of its new strategy.
Whoever he is, the next pope will face a church in crisis: Benedict spent his eight-year pontificate trying to revive Catholicism amid the secular trends that have made it almost irrelevant in places like Europe, once a stronghold of Christianity.
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