Sentence examples for hideous conflict from inspiring English sources

Without dramatic improvements in the representativeness of government in both Congo and Rwanda, this week's peace accord will be another victim of this hideous conflict.

He was accused of breaking UN arms embargoes, imposed to restrain hideous conflicts in Liberia and Sierra Leone, for example, but did not reply.

Many more call for a "reformation of Islam," but do not consider that the Protestant Reformation was a hideous, prolonged conflict that nearly destroyed Christendom.

I recognise the hideous history of conflict in Europe, and the extraordinary achievement of peace that the European Union represents.

Yet the Florida Senator apparently believes he is smart enough to fix the divided, failed state of Iraq and sort out the hideous, multi-sided conflict in Syria.

One question that almost certainly will not be asked as the world indulges in what is probably the last great bout of victory nostalgia is why those states that viewed themselves as the bearers of progress and the modern age descended between 1914 and 1945 into a hideous orgy of war, civil conflict, repression and genocide.

What is behind this hideous act is not completely clear; we still have conflicting leads.

To outsiders, these arguments between al-Qaida and Isis may appear to be a mere fratricidal conflict over the finer points of the same hideous ideology.

Few people need to be reminded of how hideous the Pacific war was, but the book is unremitting in cataloguing the savagery of all sides in the conflict.

And even in a conflict that has plumbed new depths of depravity on all sides, the government emerges badly with its hideous barrel bombs pulverising neighbourhoods, cruel deployment of gas and utterly grotesque torture.

Absolutely hideous.