In Aleppo, they're a faint relief from a long drawn out conflict.
Many accounts of this drawn out conflict demarcate two separate wars, the "First Congo War", 1994-1997, and the "Second Congo War" 1998-2002.
Despite this the method of meta-synthesis that we used is still capable of drawing out conflicting cases, as we did, for example, between findings around the positive use of anti-depressant medication versus findings about the negative perceptions of anti-depressant medication.
How does the heat get drawn out of a conflict that, mirrored Europe-wide at different degrees of intensity, reflects a growing sense of powerlessness and alienation?
But officials here in one of the world's most impoverished nations — the third from the bottom on the 2010 United Nations Human Development Index ranking of 169 countries — emphasized that the diplomatic awkwardness of allowing the former government's dignitaries here was nothing compared with the influx they feared with somewhat more urgency each day the Libyan conflict was drawn out.
Beginning in the late sixties, two academics, Renée Fox and Judith Swazey, spent years observing transplant centers, and found that surgeons and psychiatrists went to heroic lengths to draw out the conflicts and ambivalence that lay hidden beneath donors' supposed willingness to undergo surgery.
Yemeni officials told the pan-Arab daily Al Hayat the government would deal a decisive blow to the Houthis to prevent them from planning a seventh war but that the conflict may be drawn out, as the army proceeds with a "scorched earth" policy.
"There will be community conflicts [and] long drawn out litigations," says Jain.
During the drawn out guerrilla war and the interrelated drug conflict, the reach of the state was severely limited.
The regime's involvement in Mali and the Sahel will now become more of a focus, as the conflict looks likely to be drawn out.
As the secret conflict between the two sisters grows, Donnie is drawn out of his shell.
