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Example sentences for: subcontinent

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China policy is mired in incoherence, and the Indian subcontinent is locked in a nuclear arms race.
The WSJ reports that the result of a recent high-level U.S. military war game set in a conflict between India and Pakistan shocked and disappointed many of the Army officers participating: none of the U.S.' heavy divisions could get to the Indian subcontinent in time to have any effect on the war's outcome.
The controversy began in 1947, when Great Britain withdrew from the Indian subcontinent, creating two states--India (predominantly Hindu) and Pakistan (predominantly Muslim)--out of the subcontinent's hundreds of territories.
Some of the words in my sampling may or may not be Hindi loanwords; that is, etymologists are uncertain whether they are properly attributable to Hindi or some other language of the subcontinent.
In one of the two nuclear powers on the subcontinent, the Times of India said in an editorial that it is now "absolutely certain" that neither Russia nor China will ratify the CTBT.