Sentence examples for catastrophic conflicts from inspiring English sources

But they have done the opposite, killing Pakistanis at home and increasing the likelihood of catastrophic conflicts abroad.

He sees Roosevelt, even more than Churchill, as the architect of a postwar world that for half a century worked significantly better than the prewar world of catastrophic conflicts and economic disasters.

That catastrophic conflict killed and maimed countless Iraqis.

Seventy years ago, Europe was being torn apart by its second catastrophic conflict in a generation.

In 1987, he donated 120 of his best prints to the V&A: he no longer believed South Africa could avoid "catastrophic conflict", he wrote poignantly to the museum, and he worried that his images were vulnerable.

If even a modest sense of calm is restored, Washington and Moscow then plan to relaunch diplomacy among the warring parties — "to bring this catastrophic conflict to the quickest possible end through a political process," Secretary of State John Kerry said at a press conference with the Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, in Geneva, last weekend.

Those of us opposed to another catastrophic conflict in the Middle East should not allow his alarmist and messianic rhetoric to drown out the voices of Israel's doves: those critics of military action, who, ironically, are far more numerous and outspoken than the doves on Capitol Hill or in Westminster, and have far better credentials.

Consequences of that catastrophic conflict still resound today: Iraq was created as part of the post-World War I peace settlements.

It may be, then, that the Iranian people or even the armed forces would be encouraged to replace those men leading them into a catastrophic conflict against a nuclear-armed Israel, as well as the world's strongest military power.

World War I, the most spectacular military struggle the planet had ever seen, provided new forums for transfusion as did the even more brutal and catastrophic conflict that followed two and a half decades later.

McCain begins his speech by reprising the conditions prevailing before World War II: "beggar-thy-neighbor protectionism and the poverty that imposed"; "a world order [fracturing] into clashing ethnic and nationalist passions"; a failure of deterrence followed by catastrophic conflict.