Sentence examples for conflicts against from inspiring English sources

Then there are spreading conflicts against armed Islamist groups in central and west Africa.

Fulk's reign then had to endure a series of conflicts against the several barons, Philip I of France, and the duke of Normandy.

Thenceforward, until the middle of the century, there came a series of virtually continuous conflicts against an alliance of Florence and Venice.

That nihilistic outlook dictates that conflicts against Hitler and Hitlerism remain imaginatively close while Britain's many wars of decolonisation - particularly in Africa, Malaya, Cyprus and Aden - are to be actively forgotten.

Since the Israeli withdrawal from Lebanon in 2000, Sharon's country has prosecuted two conflicts – against Hezbollah in Lebanon and Hamas in Gaza – that largely failed in their military objectives.

Numerous trials and tribunals have been held in Latin America in recent years to assess the crimes and punish the perpetrators of a series of bloody conflicts against suspected leftwing insurgents in the 1970s and 80s.

The armed conflict against al-Qaeda was a new kind of war that required new rules.

Publicly, Fallon also described the "drumbeat of conflict" against Iran as "not helpful".

They were the first group of tourists to visit since 1990, when the conflict against Georgia began.

You sense a country settling in for a long, hard, attritional conflict against an alien oppressor.

This will be a different kind of conflict against a different kind of enemy.