Sentence examples for disruptive war from inspiring English sources

All three mysteries can be better understood in the context of a disruptive war and mass movements of troops from remote parts of the globe suddenly thrust into contact with weakened, half-starved populations.

He helped stitch the nation and world back together after the most disruptive war in human history.

Savimbi continued to wage a disruptive guerrilla war against the MPLA throughout the 1970s and '80s.

Targeting a few high-profile officials can be a way to "introduce a certain level of fear," Ms Panfilova notes.A disruptive public war on corruption also can create more infighting among political and business clans.

Even so, the Europeans and opponents of the system, including airlines and the authorities in China and the United States, will probably have to compromise at some stage to avoid the dispute turning into a disruptive trade war.

But it is also likely that AIDS was kick-started by human behaviour.Around a year after ZR59 was collected, the Congo erupted into one of the bloodiest and most disruptive civil wars in African history.

The disruptive impact of the war exceeded the understanding not only of most citizens but also of most political leaders.

In the absence of some large, disruptive shock (a new war, serious scandal or the like), a Labour triumph next year seems implausible, and a Tory majority in Parliament very likely.

"Counterforce" implied the political and economic defense of Western Europe against the disruptive effect of the war on European society.

The first and second world wars proved disruptive to tourism due to the town's proximity to mainland Europe and, from the 1960s, it fell into decline.

Some referred to it as the United States Day of Rage, an apparent reference to a series of disruptive protests against the Vietnam War held in Chicago in 1969.