Sentence examples for complexity of the war from inspiring English sources

Given the brutality and complexity of the war, the odds of a successful ceasefire are daunting.

AMERICA'S commander in Afghanistan, General Stanley McChrystal, is candid about the complexity of the war against the Taliban: "Every day I realise how little about Afghanistan I actually understand".

The battle for Tirah, a mountain redoubt of steep walls backing onto the border with Afghanistan in the Khyber agency, highlights the complexity of the war that has slowly engulfed Pakistan's tribal belt over the past five years.

That western attention has shifted so dramatically from the murders carried out by the Assad regime to those carried out by the militants fighting it is a sign of the overwhelming complexity of the war, which is collapsing borders and shaking up politics across the Middle East.

But Maja Peers and Babette Quinkert, the curators, say they wanted to concentrate on the country's direct neighbours, plus the Soviet Union and the United Kingdom.They also included Norway as a good example of the sheer complexity of the war, a place of resistance and collaboration.

Improving literacy and the complexities of the war reduced the impact of simplistic newspapers.

11 cinema, and an attempt to grapple honestly with the moral complexities of the war on terror.

Veterans and other Americans celebrating the 50th anniversary of V-J Day were in no mood to dissect the moral and political complexities of the war's endgame.

The complexities of the war in Yemen – overshadowed by the larger and more familiar conflict in Syria – were underlined again on Tuesday when a new affiliate of Islamic State claimed responsibility for four suicide bombings in the port city of Aden that killed at least 15 people including Saudi, Emirati and Yemeni troops.

The WorldPost spoke with him last week on his book, the origins of Syria's jihadist movements and the need to understand the complexities of the war.

A.O. Scott, in counting the "brutal geopolitical thriller" among his top-rated films of 2012, said it was "an attempt to grapple honestly with the moral complexities of the war on terror"; but honest is just what the film is not, if honesty implies candor, completeness, and an educated judgment; and Zero Dark Thirty does not grapple with complexities so much as it submits to convention and myth.