Sentence examples for communities at war from inspiring English sources

Rachel L. Swarns (NYT) NIGERIA: CEASE-FIRE PROCLAIMED -- President Olusegun Obasanjo announced that communities at war over land rights have agreed to a cease-fire, ending hostilities in which at least 80 people have died.

The metaphor of poor African American communities at war and under siege comes to vivid life in Alice Goffman's On The Run: Fugitive Life In An American City an ethnography of her time embedded in field research in a low-income, predominantly African American, Philadelphia neighborhood between 2002 and 2007.

The record of the Joint Inquiry also establishes that the D.C.I. was unable or unwilling to enforce priorities and marshal resources in accordance with his declaration that the intelligence community was "at war".

Black political activists present history in ways that emphasize racial solidarity, but Fortner says that the Brownsville he remembers was "a community at war with itself": I recall hearing "That's what he gets" every time one of "our youngsters" was arrested.

There are, moreover, wide differences of opinion among pacifists themselves about their attitude toward a community at war, ranging from the very small minority who would refuse to do anything that could help the national effort to those prepared to offer any kind of service short of actual fighting.

"It's a small example of communities often at war with each other that get along just fine," he said.

"The traffic enforcement agents and the community are at war with each other," he said.

Conversion will never be seen as a purely individual matter when one religiously-defined community is at war or armed standoff with another.

The Bitcoin community is at war with itself, again!

These guns come from communities who are at war and have been for generations.

Since 1996, this community has been at war with the nearby village of Cueicok, caught in a deep-rooted cycle of cattle-raiding and reprisal attacks.