Sentences with phrase «long guerrilla war»

1972 was also the beginning of a 7 - year long guerrilla war between nationalists and the Rhodesian security forces.

This also foregrounds packing cases in its description: great stacks of them, left behind by fleeing Portuguese colonists when Angola won its independence in 1975 after a decade - long guerrilla war.

But the reef faces a threat: an end to Colombia's decades - long guerrilla war.

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Only days after the people of Colombia voted to reject a historic peace deal he spent years negotiating, the Colombian president, Juan Manuel Santos, received the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to end the country's decades - long war with the FARC guerrilla movement.

These concerns and protests are nothing new, of course; art world outsiders and enfant terribles like the Guerrilla Girls and their irreverent posters, the anti-art of Dada, or Warhol's «Oxidation» paintings have long waged war with performance, protest, and art to challenge and change the otherwise impenetrable establishment.

Their solution: to send an elite team of top scientists forward in time, to a point long after the Tobacco Wars are over, when everyone knows smoking causes lung cancer, the miniskirt has given way to the upskirt, Global Cooling has become Global Warming, and the last thing anybody expects is a guerrilla marketing attack from nicotine shills.