Sentence examples for gruesome conflict from inspiring English sources

But in Colombia, the gruesome conflict keeps on plumbing new depths of horror.

IT IS growing harder to distinguish one bloody day in Syria from the next, unless the horror is so stark as to earn a special mark in the trajectory of an increasingly gruesome conflict.

When Tunstall is murdered by the so-called Dolanites, their opponents, the self-styled Regulators, with McCarty among them, set out to avenge his death, sparking a gruesome conflict, fanned by sensational reporting and cynical manipulation.

The journalist and novelist Daniel Bergner is right, however, to see Africa's civil wars as a horror of our time that deserves exploration, and that is what drew him to spend time in Sierra Leone in the aftermath of the gruesome conflict there that ended several years ago -- for the time being, anyway.

Bosnia and Herzegovina declared its independence from Yugoslavia in 1992, only to quickly be consumed by a gruesome conflict between the country's ethnic Serbs, ethnic Croats and Bosniaks (Bosnian Muslims).

In this gruesome conflict, rape is frequently the weapon of choice, and a wide array of armed groups with many different patrons fight mercilessly for control of mineral riches.

The street is patrolled 24/7 by the army, navy, and police seeking to prevent the gruesome conflicts between drug gangs from reaching the tourist areas.

ONE of the most horrifying testimonies to Colombia's gruesome internal conflict is a video sent to prosecutors that shows a paramilitary fighter in the northern town of Aguachica wielding a machete to hack off the hands of a victim who is still alive.

"It will be a gruesome battle.

Income from the sale of the tusks is used to buy weapons and prolong gruesome human conflicts.

The International Crisis Group, a think-tank, points out that the rebel groups are internally splintered and has recommended calling in UN-sanctioned peacekeepers, along the lines of the 1,400 European Union troops that, with the UN's approval, are being sent to try to stop the carnage in another of Africa's gruesome civil conflicts, in Congo.