Sentence examples for centuries of division from inspiring English sources

The issue is especially troubling to a country with a strong attachment to its military, a result of centuries of division and domination by foreign powers.

Christian leaders and congregations will spend the next 12 months consolidating moves towards greater cooperation and dialogue after centuries of division.

The event was the first Roman Catholic service to take place in anti-Vatican king Henry VIII's residence for 450 years and acted as a symbolic gesture of reconciliation between the two churches, which have endured centuries of division.

Although linguistically related to the Persians of Iran, which was also celebrating the pre-Islamic New Year festival of Nowruz on Thursday, the Kurds have maintained a distinctive culture that has survived centuries of division and repression.

In his farewell speech at Stormont on Monday, Robinson told the assembly that "after centuries of division, we had to outlive the growing pains of learning to work together, fashion shared policies, and create a more inclusive society".

Those alliances paid off for him when Islamic militant groups allied with his forces and entered Aden on June 21 , 1994 finally reuniting Yemen after centuries of division, while killing at least 10,000 civilians in the process, according to Western human rights reports.

At a psychological level, China's leaders and people seek respect for their country as a power that is claiming its place in the world after centuries of divisions and colonial oppression.

It brings to an end half a century of division between east and west -- once it was said that Europe was divided into two halves - those in the west who had Europe and those in the east who believed in it.

Hailing from Bowating First Nation just outside of Sault Saint Marie, Carson-Fox counts herself among the same generation of Indigenous youth rising up and making themselves heard after more than a century of division, neglect and silence imposed by Canada's residential schools.

The embassy attack occurred Monday night, at the end of a march by tens of thousands of Poles to mark the anniversary of Poland's 1918 reunification after more than a century of division among Russia, Prussia and the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

That means overcoming centuries of tribal division.