Sentence examples for a string of conflicts from inspiring English sources

Colvin was an American-born journalist who joined the Sunday Times in 1985 and covered a string of conflicts including Chechnya, Sierra Leone, East Timor and Libya.

Bedouin tribesmen have stormed a tourist resort in the Sinai peninsula in an effort to reclaim land – the latest in a string of conflicts between the Egyptian state and local communities emboldened by the revolution.

A century after the Russian-Japanese war broke out, the first in a string of conflicts between these Pacific powers, the two perennial adversaries now seem to be finally embarking on an era of real economic cooperation.

In 2012, the European parliament suspended funding to the European food safety authority (Efsa) for six months over a string of conflicts of interest allegations involving ILSI members on the board of Efsa and on its committees.

The coup was the first of a string of conflicts between the Chávez government and the opposition clashes that continued to polarize Venezuelan society into two bitterly opposed camps: Chávez supporters (chavistas) and opposition members (escuálidos ["scrawny ones"], a derisive term coined by Chávez but quickly and proudly embraced by the opposition).

The collapse of the Soviet Union generated a string of conflicts along the periphery of Russia and even inside Russia itself.

President Donald Trump on Friday denied having prior knowledge of his son's highly scrutinized 2016 meeting with a Kremlin-linked lawyer, the latest in a string of conflicting explanations for what and when he knew about the encounter.

As head of state, she has presided over British involvement in a string of military conflicts, from Korea to Afghanistan.

Now, the dispute over the "World Trade Center cross" is becoming the latest in a string of heated conflicts over how to memorialize the Sept. 11 attacks.

Realizing the danger, and rattled by a string of social conflicts in recent years, the Beijing government has clamped down on any discussion of democracy or revolution, whether it be references to the liberalizing wave sweeping the Middle East or comments about China itself.

But the disclosure that Mr. Harbi had not been on any kind of watch list might also be embarrassing to the Saudis, given what the official said had been his participation in a string of foreign conflicts that attracted Islamic extremists.