Violence Surges in Sri Lanka A rise in violence in Sri Lanka this month has the hallmarks of a war, yet the 2002 truce remains in force as the new president, Mahinda Rajapakse, is set to meet with India's prime minister, Manmohan Singh, in New Delhi.
One of the hallmarks of "Whale Wars," the Animal Planet reality series about conservationists doing battle with Japanese whalers on the high seas, is the anonymity of the animal lovers' faceless and mostly silent enemy: crouched on the decks of its ships, seen at a distance through the mist and spray.
But since Sept. 11, Washington and its allies have talked consistently of a "war" on terrorism, and the operations in Afghanistan certainly have all the hallmarks of warfare.
The obsession with radiation that characterises The Bridge is a hallmark of Cold War nuclear anxieties.
Across the country, the Taliban have made the destruction of schools, particularly schools for girls, a hallmark of their war.
In Karachi alone more than 1,350 people have been killed in the streets so far this year, many of them in the drive-by shootings that have become the tragic hallmark of a war of ethnic rivalries.But Ms Khan has been careful not to overdo the violence.
Another hallmark of modern war, to Smith, is the way in which it is fought within the media.
Elliott Ackerman: 'Green on blue' is slang for the ubiquitous Afghan on American killings which have become the hallmark of that war -- green being U.S. Military shorthand for Afghan Army soldiers, blue its own.
The hallmarks of that old war are now being scrutinized by investigators with new urgency.
So oceans away from the mass graves and suicide bombers that have become hallmarks of the civil war, the Tamils of Toronto hold pledge drives on Tamil radio, fill tills on shop counters, and solicit money door-to-door in Tamil neighborhoods and workplaces.
