After seeing the movie twice — that's a full five hours of immersion in a strife-torn 19th-century France — I still feel torn.
- in the space of a few months, including Robert Falls's revelatory production at the Goodman Theater, which set the play in a strife-torn contemporary landscape that suggested the Balkan conflict.
R. Release date: Feb. 22. Joe the King Frank Whaley's sincere but wobbly first film does a good enough job of conveying the embarrassment, panic and despair of a young boy (Noah Fleiss) growing up dirt poor in a strife-torn household in upstate New York in the 1970's.
Stewart spoke with eloquence, humor and a sense of proud achievement at what had been accomplished in a strife-torn country.
The politician, Andal Ampatuan Jr., the mayor of Datu Unsay in Maguindanao, a strife-torn province in the south, turned himself in to the military and to Jesus Dureza, an adviser to President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo.
Speaking with the press after the session, the Dalai Lama turned to more pressing worldly matters, emphasizing the need to bring about international conciliation in a period strife with instability.
"[It] was important to note UNICEF's engagement in the middle-income countries", he stressed, adding, "this region has been engulfed in a civil strife, and it was therefore important to understand the rebuilding efforts in these countries and, in particular, UNICEF's role in a post-conflict situation".
In inches, in miles in laughter in strife.
WHEN the world's most famous investor makes his first overseas acquisition in a small, strife-torn country that he has never visited, one might forgive that country's leaders a little glee.
Gold or natural gas must be mined or pumped where they are; this is as likely to be in a poor, strife-torn country as a rich, peaceful one.
Mr Hague could, however, have been following in the footsteps of David Cameron who, as opposition leader, also paid an unexpected visit to a country in strife – arriving in Georgia in 2008 in the aftermath of the conflict with Russia to the puzzlement of many in the capital, Tbilisi.
