Sentences with phrase «devastated by civil war»

Although democratic transformation has proceeded quickly, millions of its citizens remain in extreme poverty, hundreds of political prisoners are still in jail and the northern part of the country still devastated by civil war.

It wasn't even there until 1840 — it was founded in the wake of the pretty anti-communitarian Cherokee removal that's part of our wonderful southern heritage — and it was devastated by the 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.

In Syria alone, (by some estimates) more than 470,000 people have been killed in five years of civil war that has devastated the country, displacing millions.

According to a devastating new U.N. report, nearly half of all Syrians have been displaced by the violence of the country's ongoing civil war.

The endorsement was made Wednesday, a day before Johnson made headlines by asking «what is Aleppo» when questioned during an appearance on MSNBC's «Morning Joe» about the city that is at the heart of of Syria's devastating civil war.

Officials fear the outbreaks could spread inland to devastate countries already affected by drought and civil war, unless urgent action is taken to control the locusts immediately.

Lincoln (Steven Spielberg, 2012) Focussing on the fight to pass the 13th amendment outlawing slavery, Lincoln, in the brilliant performance by Daniel Day - Lewis, illuminates the man and the qualities of his leadership that carried the nation through a devastating civil war.

While he teamed before with filmmaker Angelina Jolie to play the Bosnian Civil War with devastating tragedy «In the Land of Blood and Honey,» «By the Sea's» oceanside location in the composer's French homeland is an opportunity for Gabriel Yared to capture a slightly less weighty environment of artistic ennui.

Though Japan has been devastated by a century of civil war, Risuko just wants to climb trees.

London, England About Blog The Supporting Syria and the Region conference will bring together world leaders to rise to the challenge of raising the money needed to help millions of people whose lives have been torn apart by the devastating civil war Frequency about 1 post per month Since Jan 2016 Website supportingsyria2016.com/news+ Follow Facebook fans - n / a.