Sentences with phrase «by decades of conflict»

In post-civil war Uganda, an East African nation racked by decades of conflict, suffering former soldiers are finding comfort in the warm and furry cuddles of therapy dogs.

Not exact matches

The 1993 settlement between the Church of Scientology and the IRS represented the end of almost four decades of conflict between the Church and the federal government, principally though not solely the IRS, a conflict initiated and maintained by the government.

Despite previous plans to admit the highest number of refugees in decades, the United States will shut its doors to thousands displaced by conflict in the Middle East — at least temporarily — under an executive order President Donald Trump signed Friday.

For more than a decade, a few prescient scholars have been warning about the coming conflict, now commonly referred to by Samuel Huntington's phrase «the clash of civilizations.»

Granted that present circumstances are different from those of World War I and the following decade, ministry today is also practiced in a time characterized by great unrest, by the specter of armed conflict, and by the tremendous problems of the poor, the aging, the emotionally disturbed.

On the whole, however, the Congress, helped greatly by the moral prestige of Gandhi and Nehru, succeeded in becoming a truly pan-Indian party in the first two decades after independence, able to appease the potentially conflicting interests of Muslims and low - caste Dalits as well as upper - caste Brahmins.

During the decades of conflict between Jordan and Israel this area was a military zone, strewn with mines and closed to unauthorized personnel, but since the 1994 Peace Treaty the mines have been cleared and the site is being developed by the Jordanian Ministry of Tourism.

Men's reported level of work - life conflict has risen significantly over the past three decades, (from 34 % in 1977 to 45 % in 2008) while the level of conflict reported by women has not changed significantly (Galinsky et al, 2009)

After decades of rhetoric validating women's choices to «opt in» or «opt out,» women often resolve work - life conflict by pulling back from work.

The adoption of mass protest over armed conflict is to be welcomed after decades of vicious civil wars, often perpetrated by small groups of armed men with no broad - based political agenda and little desire to shape one.

Possibly as a result of these societal barriers, since 1980 the Ivory Coast and Zimbabwe have both experienced increases in maternal mortality rates — in Zimbabwe deaths have jumped by 5.5 percent each year in the past two decades, in part because of low female social status and ongoing political conflict.

But a close look at nearly two decades of licensing a set of reproductive technologies by the country that brought us the first test - tube baby may build a better framework than reliance on the good faith of physicians who confront an inherent conflict of interest.

The wildlife populations of this spectacular landscape have been subject to heavy poaching during various periods over the past decades, and conservation efforts in the area, carried out thanks to longstanding EU financial support through PDRN, ECOFAC and ECOFAUNE projects, have been negatively impacted by the past three years of armed conflict.

But despite the tension surrounding the matter, exacerbated by the recent release of a Kremlin document suggesting the possibility of armed conflict within a decade, there is growing evidence that any disputes will be worked out through cooperation and not confrontation.

Indeed, climate records indicate that the arid, landlocked steppe was seized by decades of drought in the late years of the 12th century, possibly exacerbating the violent conflicts that racked the region at the time.

Set in a Chicago neighborhood nearly a decade after an occupation by an extra-terrestrial force, Captive State explores the lives on both sides of the conflict - the collaborators and dissidents.

With grudges more than two decades old being settled and grievances re-aired by a host of characters, the film sags with conflicting tales.

Based on Yousef's 2010 memoir Son Of Hamas, Nadav Schirman's film — an audience prizewinner at Sundance in January — briskly runs down a decade - plus of double - dealing on the front lines of the Israeli - Palestinian conflict, offsetting the interview footage with archival news reports, a crashing orchestral score by Max Richter, and staged aerial surveillance shots, tinted night - vision green for maximum atmospherOf Hamas, Nadav Schirman's film — an audience prizewinner at Sundance in January — briskly runs down a decade - plus of double - dealing on the front lines of the Israeli - Palestinian conflict, offsetting the interview footage with archival news reports, a crashing orchestral score by Max Richter, and staged aerial surveillance shots, tinted night - vision green for maximum atmospherof double - dealing on the front lines of the Israeli - Palestinian conflict, offsetting the interview footage with archival news reports, a crashing orchestral score by Max Richter, and staged aerial surveillance shots, tinted night - vision green for maximum atmospherof the Israeli - Palestinian conflict, offsetting the interview footage with archival news reports, a crashing orchestral score by Max Richter, and staged aerial surveillance shots, tinted night - vision green for maximum atmosphere.

Even the central conflict between Dan and the record label he helped launch (led by Yasiin Bey) is a decade out of date.

In the recent past the Somali government with support from the African Union and the United Nations has made positive strides towards resolving its two decades protracted conflict by containing the high level of violence and its complex humanitarian crisis.

Abstract: Rape is crime that ought to be punished and prevented, but in Somalia after more than two decades of protracted conflict, sexual violence is now being referred to as «normal» by Human Rights Watch report1.

A Thousand Splendid Suns is a more ambitious novel than The Kite Runner, with a wider and deeper historical and cultural scope that illuminates the last three decades of Afghan history during which the country has been inflicted by coups and counter-coups, an anti-Soviet jihad, civil war, warlord and Taliban tyranny, and post 9/11 conflict.

The artist often works with non-professional actors, as he pictures the identity of a decade characterized by conflict, migration, displacement and loss.

Born in poverty in Alabama, Dial has lived his entire life in the American South, and his art, informed by decades of struggle as a black working - class man, reveals a unique perspective on America's most difficult and pervasive challenges, such as its long history of race and class conflict, the war in Iraq, and the 9/11 tragedy.

Over the past four decades, Apostolos Georgiou lived in reclusion to focus on painting and drawing, his works are inspired by everyday observations from life, replete of tension, these works depict the scenarios of conflict, anxiety or absurdity.

Returning annually for over two decades, his photographs describe a region and a people trapped between warring factions and devastated by generations of conflict.

Dedicated to exploring the veracity of photographic and video documents in the public realm, the role of memory and narrative within discourses of conflict, and the construction of histories of art in the Arab world, Raad's work is informed by his upbringing in Lebanon during the civil war (1975 — 91), and by the socioeconomic and military policies that have shaped the Middle East in the past few decades.

Certainly, this is an exhibition with a more sombre tone, which presents the conflicting aspects of a city plagued by decades of negligence and abandonment of public life.

It generously covers more than a decade of the early years of Gedney's oeuvre, a period during which her work fluctuated between the two initially conflicting directions endlessly debated at Phillip Pavia's Club, described by him as «the abstractionists» presence and the purists» lack of presence.»

Many of these forest areas overlap with historical land claims made by Myanmar's ethnic minority groups who could permanently lose their land, further enflaming decades - old armed conflicts with the national government.

A quick look reveals that it acknowledges and address one of the biggest concerns expressed by critics of the IPCC — that this two - decades - old process has never had any conflict - of - interest guidelines.

It is no accident that those communities worst affected by the drought are not just those blighted by conflict, but also by decades of official neglect and contempt from governments, who see pastoralism as an unwanted relic of the past.

It should be as obvious as a pair of huge skyscrapers, aircraft crashing into them, igniting balls of flame, the murder of 3,000 people, followed by more than a decade of war, involving many countries, the descent of many countries into civil conflict, and the emergence of a brutal religious cult that posts videos of beheadings to the internet.

The Conflicts Essentials program is led by senior risk management consultants with decades of Am Law experience and available as an on - site service to law firms interested in reducing conflict - related risks.

Besides these, a major game changer in the last decade lies in the review of distribution models and practices on the sale of investment products, prompted by criticisms of bank - dominated distributions, high sale charges, questions of potential conflict of interests and investors» claims for mis - selling.

Her no nonsense approach and decades of experience mean she can give clear, firm, realistic guidance to help get to resolution within a process made much more difficult by the high conflict situation.