Sentences with phrase «country into a civil war»

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While the deployment was small in scale, it was large in import for a president who until now had refused to send American ground troops for any sustained operations into a country devastated by more than four years of civil war.

Well, good luck to you, then, when our country devolves into civil war.

It would be tragic if the region and the international community were to stand by and watch Burundians killed as they demonstrate for their democratic rights, the country disintegrates into civil war, and ethnicity used instrumentally by unscrupulous politicians.

In the largest protests in the country for decades, thousands of civilians have been killed and the situation has the potential to turn into a civil war between the government, the opposition, and Islamist groups.

He said, «We call on President Muhammadu Buhari, the northern emirs and the patrons of Miyetti Allah to rise up to the occasion and prevent the country from going into another needless civil war.

Consequently, he called on the president to prevent the country from going into «another needless civil war».

Yet there is overwhelming evidence to show that the probability of a country falling into conflict, either civil war or cross border, is higher the poorer the country is.

Saad Abu Hammour, secretary - general of the Jordan Valley Authority, told the Jerusalem hearing that the scarcity of water in Jordan has been exacerbated by the arrival of more than 250,000 Syrian refugees into the country since the outbreak of the Syrian civil war in 2011.

The unrest that followed spread throughout the country over the ensuing months, and by February 2012, Syria had descended into civil war.

Lincoln (2012): Daniel Day - Lewis transforms into the 16th president in one of his most memorable roles, and Spielberg crafts an amazing look at the later months of the Civil War that would either make or break the country.

Two - time Academy Award winner Daniel Day - Lewis once again disappears into his latest role, this time as President Abraham Lincoln in «Lincoln,» director Steven Spielberg's dramatization of the 16th president's final months in office and his actions to end the Civil War, abolish slavery, and unite the country.

As he settles into his new life, the country is experiencing its own turmoil: an oil embargo has led to martial law and civil war, with the government being led by a man with Fascist ambitions who uses the energy crisis, violent street demonstrations, and a mass shooting to give himself new dictatorial powers and establish a force of Special Police.

January 29, 2015 • The country's new government says it is thinking of a new investigation into reports of extrajudicial killings in the closing chapter of the island nation's 26 - year civil war.

During the Obama administration, this office charged full speed ahead into the nation's culture wars by imposing on every educational institution in the country novel and detailed mandates based on very broad interpretations of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (which prohibits discrimination on the basis of race and national origin) and Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 (which prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex).

They soon find themselves witnesses to the crumbling of a more than two - thousand - year - old dynasty that plunges the country into decades of civil war.

Nadia and Saeed fall in love when their nation devolves into civil war, and so they must flee through magical doors from one country to the next.

According to Next Generation Nepal's website, the 1996 - 2006 Nepalese civil war between government forces and the insurgent Communist Party of Nepal claimed 12,000 lives and devastated the economy; and, in remote areas of the country, the Maoist rebels used intimidation and even murder to control villages and abduct children into their army.

Take the role of an American sniper named Jonathan North, who drops into enemy territory in northern Georgia as the country is dissolving into a bloody civil war.

The civil war, which has been going on for five years now, and the different power interests of governments and corporations have thrown the country into...

Goncalo Mabunda: Emperor of the Sands @ Jack Bell Gallery Mozambique artists Goncalo Mabunda reclaims weapons from his country's civil war and fashions them into sculptures and thrones.

In March 2011 the conflict reached a crisis point and the country broke down into civil war.

The shipments began streaming into the country over the past two weeks, along with separate deliveries by the State Department of vehicles and other gear — a flow of material that marks a major escalation of the U.S. role in Syria's civil war.

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.

«Recently, in Pakistan, we've seen enormous floods, and some real questions about the viability of the state as a whole, the possibility now many people are discussing is the country disingregating into regions, and perhaps civil war, or an extremist takeover of some kind...»