Sentence examples for a protracted conflict from inspiring English sources

This tendency can be a particular problem in international negotiation, particularly those involving a protracted conflict.

Combined with the regime's hardening, the rebels' advances point to a protracted conflict ahead.

Instead, battle lines will form and both sides will dig in for a protracted conflict.

Negotiators who are looking for an end to a protracted conflict would be wise to capitalize on such external shifts.

Rather, it sets the stage for a protracted conflict that would divide Syria into warring opposition and pro-Assad enclaves.

They fear that a protracted conflict would stifle any revival of business spending -- something considered critical to economic recovery.

They too could sustain their war effort only through conquest, even though a protracted conflict threatened to turn against them.

The strategy of Israel's (and America's) enemies today is to lure the military superpower into a protracted conflict.

But opponents say divestment is the wrong way to encourage compromise between parties locked in a complex, protracted conflict.

Turkey has made clear that it would like to see a safe haven created for the Syrian rebels near the Turkish border with Syria, but so far the United States government has resisted that idea because of concerns that protecting those areas would mean becoming more involved in a messy, protracted conflict.

Fast forward to 2016, with an increasingly hostile environment to Syrian refugees escaping a bloody and protracted conflict in their country to neighboring Lebanon.