Sentences with phrase «long civil wars»

Long civil wars lead to many more deaths (both military and civilian), wreck economies, and generate massive flows of refugees and internally displaced persons.

The debt, incurred during Angola's long civil war, was cut to $ 1.5 billion in a deal partly negotiated by Arcadi Gaydamak, a Russian - born businessman.

Reuters: Patriarch warns Syrians of reliving Lebanon's errors The head of Lebanon's Maronite Church evoked his country's long civil war to condemn the futility of conflict, on the second day of a controversial visit to Syria's war - ravaged capital Damascus.

They became merely the latest casualties of a decades - long civil war that's left 220,000 people dead.

As the Nobel Committee pointed out and as Santos accepted, the prize should indeed be a tribute to the struggle to end the modern world's longest civil war — and an encouragement to those who hope for a lasting consensus among Colombia's divided people.

The economy had expanded tenfold over the previous decade, and the government, which in 2002 won a resounding victory in the country's long civil war, was unchallenged at home, a towering presence in regional politics, and a major investor abroad, including in Portugal, the former colonial power.

Now, the Resistance didn't overthrow Assad and Syria entered into a long civil war.

But on April 3, over coffee and cookies at the Capital Grille on 42nd Street, Cuomo brokered an end to the long civil war among Dems.

Though their formative political experiences were during the decade - long civil war between Gordon Brown and Tony Blair, they are, in party terms, «postwar» politicians, desperate to move on.

Ms Sirleaf took office in 2006, after her predecessor, Charles Taylor, was forced out of office by rebels in 2003, ending a long civil war.

Salvadorean women refugees suffering psychological trauma after a long civil war, on the other hand, often experience something called calorias,...

In addition to its mental health consequences, the exceedingly long civil war in Guatemala resulted in displacement of 1 million people from their homes and workplaces, over 200,000 civilian deaths, destruction of hundreds of villages, crops and fields, the elimination of local leaders and authorities and, in the worst cases, torture, rape, and collective extermination of entire families and communities.

(In French and English with subtitles) Pray the Devil Back to Hell (Unrated) Feminist documentary chronicles the extraordinary efforts of the group of visionary women who spearheaded the peace movement which led to the end of Liberia's decades - long civil war and the rise to power of Ellen Johnson - Sirleaf, Africa's first elected female head of state.

Narrated in two unforgettably authentic voices and spanning the entirety of the decades - long civil war, it offers an unparalleled portrait of a beautiful land during its most difficult moment by a spellbinding new literary talent who promises tremendous things to come.

She won the prize in 2011, sharing it with two other women: Liberia's president Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and Mrs. Leymah Gbowee, credited with leading the Women of Liberia Mass Action for Peace, ending a long civil war there.

Her life began in former Yugoslavia during a decade long civil war.

Of course like most Asian cities it's rapidly growing a selection of high rise buildings, but it still retains much of its leafy charm, partly because investors shied away during the long civil war.

With its cheery lemon pool umbrellas and buzzy lobby lounge, the Shangri - La epitomizes the optimism and energy of this island nation, which, having emerged from a decades - long civil war, seems to have leapfrogged to the top of every traveler's bucket list.

Angola is an impoverished country that depends on its oil industry to pay for reconstruction after a long civil war.

Though some feared the Rwandan genocide and decade - long civil war in the Democratic Republic of the Congo had driven it to extinction, the rare Okapi still stalks World Heritage site Virunga National Park, according to the first ever photos of the animal in the wild, released yesterday.

Bitcoin's three year long civil war has come to an end.

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Meanwhile, it is unclear what strategy Trump will adopt with regard to the years» long Syrian civil war between President Bashar al - Assad and rebel forces who want his ouster.

«I have consistently taken the best course that I can to try to end the civil war, while having also to take into account the long - term national security interests of the United States,» Obama said.

While use of these RFRA laws has been part and parcel of the judicial landscape since the 1990s, the controversy over them is part of a long history of discrimination in the U.S. And the attempts to end that discrimination stretch all the way back to the Civil War.

Such chronic inflammation amounts to a never - ending civil war inside your body and is associated with a long list of ills.

A civil war, two world wars and other conflicts, political upheavals, corporate scandals, energy crises, and a plethora of asset bubbles; despite all of this and more, American industry has prospered and the US equity market has delivered attractive long - term returns.

Long before Civil War financing necessitated the National Bank Act to provide a means of recirculating government deposits into the banking system, the growing volume of Treasury finances necessitated compensatory activity following re-establishment of the Independent Treasury in 1847.

How long before anarchy sets in, or civil war?

It's a question I've long had as a Civil War buff and that has new resonance on Tuesday, which marks the 150th anniversary of the start of the Civil War.

Not long after the Civil War, John Wesley Work, an African American church choir director and scholar in Nashville, Tennessee, realized that the rising generation of black southerners might best understand the importance of spirituality by learning the songs their ancestors sang during the days of....

The debate over the Civil War and Lincoln's part in precipitating, pursuing, and concluding it will continue as long as the American republic.

Just after the Civil War, bright young American literati exposed to the new surge of scholarship at continental universities came home only to be dismayed by the lethargy and intellectual squalor of their no - longer almae matres.

The program's host, Geraldo Rivera, suggested that it will be impossible to stop the flow of drugs as long as demand for them is so high in the U.S. and warned of the danger that we might be drawn into a civil war.

At the beginning of the long period of Anglo - American dominance, Britain resolved the religious controversies that drove it into civil war by adopting what Mead calls «anglican ethics.»

Like the United States, Mexico fought a long and bitter civil war, a war in which ever inclusive rights to full citizenship were claimed and in principle at least were won.

Further, famines, pestilences, brigandage and war (both civil and with the Japanese) engulfed our area repeatedly, and flight to safer places for short or long periods was common.

Historians have long theorized that the south lost the civil war due to the number of mentally challenged soldiers in the Confederate army, a direct result of this inbreeding.

Religious civil wars are longer and bloodier than other types of clashes, according to studies.

The good: Iraq no longer has a civil war.

(Pictured: Leymah Gbowee is a Liberian mother of six who won the Nobel Peace Prize for organizing the Women of Liberia Mass Action for Peace, a movement which mobilized both Christian and Muslim women to end Liberia's long and bloody civil war through prayer, protests, sit - ins, diplomacy, and sex strikes.

This sense of energetic local citizenship was dramatically reinforced by long lasting memories of the Civil War.

The conflict between the Myanmar government and the Karen and other ethnic groups such as the Karenni, Mon and Shan is considered by many analysts to be the longest - running civil war in the world.

Liberal Christians have a long history of political action, most recently in connection with civil rights and the war in Vietnam.

How was it possible for 40 million South Africans to avoid a disastrous civil war and create a new society that raised the hope for peace among long - alienated peoples?

It can remind us that those who so cherished liberty for themselves were willing to enslave and exploit others; that a civil war and long years of struggle were required before the nation legally ended slavery, segregation and discrimination and attempted to redress the harm done to the conquered native people.

Two books on South African apartheid show how it was possible for 40 million South Africans to avoid a disastrous civil war and create a new society that raised the hope for peace among long - alienated peoples.

So in 2002 she organized the Women of Liberia Mass Action for Peace, a movement which sought to end Liberia's long and bloody civil war through prayer, silent protests, and (perhaps most effectively) a sex strike.

The body is now no longer perfectly controlled by the soul — there is a sort of civil war:

Into town had come 700 coaches, 200 newsmen and half the population of Ohio to see two furious basketball teams that were bent on settling a national championship and their own civil war in what would long be remembered as the great grudge match of Louisville.

This country has been divided for a long time (since before the civil war), and guess what, it will continue to be.