Sentences with phrase «ruinous military conflict»
So while there are few checks and balances on the abuse of power, the leadership's priorities remain the same: keep the country relatively stable, head off political risks, and avoid a financially ruinous military conflict.
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The rougher, former military - industrial buildings include such meditations on conflict as Mr. Storr's choices of Italian artists Paolo Canevari, whose «Bouncing Skull» (2007) features a child kicking around a skull in front of a gutted tower block in the former army HQ in Belgrade, and Gabriele Basilico's sumptuously ruinous cityscapes, «Beirut 1991» (2003).