Such is the desperation of the refugees here in Gevgelija, Macedonia - soaking from the torrential rain that fell overnight, dogtired from the journey through Turkey and Greece, their lives destroyed by conflict and the deep poverty blighting their home countries - that the Macedonians, for all their tough talk of recent days, could not stop them.
Sounding a theme that would be loudly echoed in Madison's "Federalist 10," Montesquieu asserts that without strong public virtue, a democratic republic is likely to be destroyed by conflict between various "factions," each pursuing its own narrow interests at the expense of the broader public good.
As a combat veteran myself, I've seen how war has drained our country -- with trillions spent and thousands of lives lost or destroyed by conflict.
We could follow an emergency response team going to Madagascar to help implement the tool measures against desert locust invasion or go and document varieties of crop as part of a project designed to rebuild the national seed system within a country destroyed by conflict over decades, such as Afghanistan.
We could follow an emergency response team going to Madagascar to take measures against a desert locust invasion or go and document varieties of crop as part of a project designed to rebuild the national seed system within a country destroyed by conflict over decades, such as Afghanistan.
The village had been destroyed by conflict, with 112 houses burned and nine people killed in an attack by ex-Seleka rebles in February last year.
Mr. Obama is borrowing the same rhetoric his predecessor used to gain support for a mission that is refueling hate and animosity by taking more lives in a country that has already been destroyed by endless conflicts.
The First International was itself destroyed by the conflict between Marx and Bakunin, a conflict rooted as much in the contradictory personalities of the two leaders as in their rival doctrines revolution by a disciplined party versus revolution by the spontaneous insurgence of the working class, respectively.
Chibok may have been the tragedy that made a huge international impact but so many families are still being destroyed by the conflict and the abductions have not stopped.
Their homes destroyed by the conflict and their families unable to care for them, the area's poorest residents have lived in the Soviet-era shelter for more than two years.
