subnational
Speech parts
1. subnational - Noun
2. subnational - Adjective
Meaning
subnational (not comparable)
Forming a subdivision of a nation; contained entirely within a nation.
Counties and provinces are subnational regions.
subnational (plural subnationals)
A region or organization that operates within a subdivision of a nation.
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Examples
The level of destruction and terror and violence carried out by the powerful states far exceeds anything that can imaginably can be done by groups that are called terrorists and subnational groups.
As composed in 1996, the Federation Council included about fifty chief executives of subnational jurisdictions who had been appointed to their posts by Yeltsin during 1991-92, then won popular election directly to the body in December 1993.
Election results in the subnational jurisdictions held great significance for the Yeltsin administration because the winners would fill the ex officio seats in the Federation Council, which until 1996 was a reliable bastion of support.
The Federation Council, as its name and composition implies, deals primarily with issues of concern to the subnational jurisdictions, such as adjustments to internal borders and decrees of the president establishing martial law or states of emergency.
The Federation Council has established fewer committees because of the part-time status of its members, who also hold political office in the subnational jurisdictions.
Certainly, there are huge variations in the risk of dying from armed conflict at the national and subnational level, and the risk of dying violently in a conflict in specific countries remains extremely high.