Sentences with phrase «lasting civil conflict»

Turning her attention both towards the struggles within her own homeland, which has had the longest - lasting civil conflict in the Western Hemisphere, as well as to political turmoil internationally, she addresses the persistent issues of colonialism, racism, and social injustice, and the need to mourn the deaths that follow in their wake.

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The U.S. Civil War was a bloody conflict, but that war lasted only 5 years, and the antagonists did take prisoners.

Madison's implicit assumption, and that of the entire tradition of religious toleration until the last few decades, however, was that religious diversity and conflict would involve competing sects that differ on some important questions of doctrine and practice but nonetheless share in common a basic Judeo - Christian orientation that is also, in very broad terms, our society's implicit civil religion.

They've stuck their noses in to virtually every Middle Eastern conflict in the last 70 years, including he Israeli War of Independence, Suez War, Iraqi Army Revolt, Lebanese Civil War, Mosul Revolt, Kirkuk violence, Kurdish Revolt, North Yemen Civil War, Dhofar Rebellion, Six - Day War, The War of Attrition, Jordanian Civil War, Yom Kippur War, Egyptian - Libyan Border War, Intra-Iraqi Kurdish warfare, Iraqi Shia unrest in Karbala, Yemeni War, «The Tanker War», Osiraq Reactor Raid, Israeli Invasion of Lebanon, South Yemen Civil War, 2 Intifadas, Sa «dah Insurgency, and the Gaza War.

Regardless of what Gaddafi threatened Benghazi with last week, what is happening in Libya is a civil conflict which is a very long way from genocide.

The decline in the occurrence of civil war over the last two decades is substantial, and likely due in part to concerted international conflict management efforts.

It finally admonished the State, civil society and communities to be vigilant so that last minute conflict triggers via SMS or social media are not allowed to disrupt the election.

But it is far more cost - effective to invest aid in conflict prevention — in countries like Somalia and Mali, both of which suffered from hunger crises last year — than it is to pay the cost of responding to violent conflict and civil war.

The former international development reversed the cut to Rwanda on his last week in the job, despite allegations over its human rights record and involvement in a civil conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Those «feelings» she refers to includes the dangling romantic subplot between Black Widow and Bruce Banner (last seen in Avengers: Age of Ultron and referenced most recently in Thor: Ragnarok), as well as Cap and Widow's ongoing conflict with Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.) since Civil War.

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.

Doris Salcedo carries out extensive research into the lives of those affected by Colombia's civil war, a conflict that has lasted intermittently since 1948.

The Pattis & Smith team is often brought in for high - conflict, high stakes civil trials, ranging from Connecticut high net worth divorce disputes to civil fraud defense, where Mr. Pattis» eloquent and aggressive style demonstrate why legal icon F. Lee Bailey describes Norm as «The last of the slash and burn trial lawyers» and Newsday labels him «Legal Top Gun.»