Sentences with phrase «touched by conflict»

Some estimates put rough touched by conflict at less than 1 percent today.

The issue reached its zenith in the late 1990s, when it is estimated that between 4 and 15 % of the world's rough diamond supply was touched by conflict.

Not exact matches

In the coda of that historic speech, boldness is touched by humility: «The course of this conflict is not known, yet its outcome is certain.

A good story is touching, funny, marked by conflict (but not too much conflict) and satisfying in its resolution.

Once more the Commandments call us to live out a higher destiny, a higher humanity that befits the elected people of God, whose lives have been so touched by grace and love that they can overcome the conflicts present in their own inner lives and give honor to their fathers and mothers.

Trident involves a nuclear priesthood with an archaic language and doctrine stuck in a past conflict that matters little to most of the electorate, protected from the ravages of austerity by a political class out of touch.

James Comey's searing, tell - all book touched off a forceful attack on the former F.B.I. director's character by Trump and his allies, even as many Democrats struggled with conflicted feelings about the man they blame for Hillary Clinton's loss in the 2016 election.

Similarly, perception researcher Irvin Rock, then at Yeshiva University, showed in the 1960s that when shape or size perception for single simple objects was made to conflict between the senses (by the introduction of distorting lenses), perception conveyed by active touch was modified to conform to visual perception.

One of the major conflicts the hero dog «Max» has to overcome is being touched in his private parts by his handler and the judges.

Touched by God, these «Priests» were an outfit of elite warriors who used their superior skills and weapons to defeat the vampires, bringing an end to the brutal conflict.

Familiar adolescent conflicts are there, and occasionally inflected with a touch of the supernatural — as in his great body swap comedy Exchange Students — but they are always enveloped and nurtured by the real communities in which these young people live.

Story touches the misunderstanding, prejudice, hatred, conflict caused by the difference of language, race, custom, culture, and preference.

When, early on, apparently conflicting decisions on costs like Ford v GKR and Jones v Jones could be delivered by courts within touching distance of each other, we realised that the inheritance of Lord Denning was in legal terms pretty safe.