Sentence examples for brief conflicts from inspiring English sources

But for the last generation, the United States has called upon its soldiers to help with humanitarian missions or to fight brief conflicts lasting days or weeks, not months or years.

Ground forces would have little utility in the sort of brief conflicts envisioned by some Pentagon strategists for coming years, and long-range precision weapons launched by air and sea could handle the job.

Hundreds were killed in the brief conflict.

Andy and April had a brief conflict over whether to have kids, then had kids.

Ben and Leslie had a brief conflict over who should run for governor, then Ben ceded to Leslie.

McCain was also due to visit Georgian soldiers wounded in the brief conflict with Russia over the breakaway South Ossetia region.

Though India's military has almost certainly carried out cross-border raids, the government has never publicly announced them, even during the brief conflict in Kargil in 1999.

Other cables referred to his support for the Syrian leadership in its standoff with Israel, and his suspicion of Eritrea, which fought a brief conflict with Yemen over the disputed Red Sea Hanish islands in 1995.

In the 35 years from 1929, when Gandhi chose Nehru as president of the Congress session at Lahore, until his death, as prime minister, in 1964, Nehru remained despite the debacle of the brief conflict with China in 1962 the idol of his people.

When drones have been used in other circumstances, such as Georgia's brief conflict with Russia back in 2008, Georgia's Israeli-supplied drones were simply shot out of the sky.

The Winnebago War was a brief conflict that took place in 1827 in the Upper Mississippi River region of the United States, primarily in what is now the state of Wisconsin.