Sentence examples for fund conflicts from inspiring English sources

This has been described as the biggest test yet of the Kimberley process certification scheme, created a decade ago to stamp out the use of diamonds to fund conflicts.

Poachers include poor opportunistic individuals and increasingly heavily armed militia groups who use ivory to fund conflicts.

Some of the proceeds from these rare minerals have been used to fund conflicts in the region, creating some of the worst humanitarian crises on record.

These findings support qualitative accounts of food aid either being stolen during transport or being taken from target populations by small armed groups that use the resources to fund conflict.

But, like other highly desirable natural resources, it can also be used to fund conflict – which is why a range of measures to prevent this happening has been established in recent years.

Rather than stage a boycott, people who don't want their purchases to fund conflict minerals are now protesting with the very technology they hope to improve.

Similar funding conflicts are set to erupt at campuses across the UK.

They have funded conflicts in Africa that have led to the death and displacement of millions of people.

It had ethical problems, misspent funds, conflicts of interest, angry United States senators and stolen e-mail messages.

The trade in illicit gems, known as "blood diamonds" for their role in funding conflicts, perpetuated the civil war.

However, societal factors such as inadequate funding, conflicts among objectives and priority of resource values as well as limited public understanding have created significant delay in the implementation of these programs to restore forest resilience to fire (Franklin et al. 2014; Rideout et al. 2014).