Sentence examples for disastrous conflicts from inspiring English sources

The schools remained open, and Richmond avoided the disastrous conflicts that swept over other parts of the region.

When it comes, we will win over Japan, but it will be one of the most disastrous conflicts the world has ever seen".

And the authors in "A History of Virility" are not shy, either, about blaming the cult of virility for the disastrous conflicts of the twentieth century.

While many people buy the red poppy to support soldiers returning from war, the best way of protecting their interests is to stop sending them into these disastrous conflicts in the first place.

Most latter-day productions have been topical spectacles of a pacifist bent, evoking disastrous conflicts like the Crimean and Vietnam wars and emphasizing the emptiness of battlefield bombast spoken by men who were glorified by Homer.

Instead, there's a political dynamic to the programme that draws a line of continuum from Sarajevo to the second world war to the disastrous conflicts in the former Yugoslavia during the 1990s.

The disastrous conflict was a low point for all concerned.

Having backed to the hilt a disastrous conflict, he never pushed George W Bush hard enough on postwar planning.

115 63 bc), whose program of expansion brought him into disastrous conflict with Rome, resulting in the virtual extinction of the Pontic kingdom and its incorporation into the Roman Empire (63 62 bc).

"There is an essential and potentially disastrous conflict of interest when the same person shares both jobs," said Lisa Lindsley, director of capital strategies at the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees pension plan, which proposed the independent chairman resolution.

External influences, especially from France, increasingly dominated the political life of Italy, culminating at the turn of the century in the disastrous conflict between Pope Boniface VIII (1294 1303) and King Philip IV (the Fair) of France (1285 1314).