The recent complications of foreign and internal strife had indeed so weakened the Punic power that the prospect of renewing the war under favourable circumstances seemed remote.
REVOLUTION, war, assassination, terrorist attacks, foreign intrigue, sectarian strife, a government paralysed and polarised between savagely bickering factions: it is hard to think of any devilish twist that Lebanon's recent saga, like a television drama desperate to improve its ratings, has not taken since the country began to break from the hold of its larger neighbour, Syria, three years ago.
The fall of the Han dynasty was followed by a few hundred years of division, strife, and foreign invasions.
As he grew to maturity, foreign war and political strife were commonplace; thus, it is not surprising that his writings are preoccupied with violence.
Flights extra While the situation in East Timor is relatively calm compared with recent periods of political strife, the Foreign and Commonwealth Office still advises against "all but essential travel" to the region.
After decades of internal strife and foreign occupation, Cyprus regarded acceptance into the European family as a promise of stability and the chance to forge a more modern economy.
To Egyptians, the reference to questions about religion was reminiscent of the frequent suggestions by some Egyptian officials who have, after outbreaks of sectarian violence, routinely blamed unnamed "foreign hands" for stirring strife between Muslims and Christians.
Decades ago, Westerners flying into Korea likened the land beneath them to a sea in a gale: 70 percent of the territory was covered with mountains and, over the centuries, rocked by foreign invasions, wars, civil strife and political and economic upheavals.
From Henry VI through to Hamlet, he had explored in play after play the problem of succession, especially the threat of civil strife or foreign invasion – not surprisingly, since this is what Elizabethans feared might follow the death of their childless monarch.
From the 15th century onward the population increased steadily, growth being interrupted by wars and natural disasters in the mid-17th century and slowed by the internal strife and foreign invasions in the century that preceded the communist takeover in 1949.
