Sentence examples for intense warfare from inspiring English sources

However, it is virtually always the case that murder is more common than war deaths, setting aside rare periods of intense warfare.

In his book "Constant Battles," Dr. LeBlanc conceded that "the rise of social complexity results in more organized and intense warfare".

Many biologists are skeptical of group-level selection, saying it could be effective only in cases where there is intense warfare between groups, a reduced rate of selection on individuals, and little interchange of genes between groups.

In contrast, the Postclassic was characterized as a period of intense warfare and highly organized military organization, of empires and cities, of secular government, and of overall artistic decline.

As population increased, a period of intense warfare lasted from 2,450 to 2,000 years ago, culminating in the victory of one town over all the others in the valley and the formation of the Zapotec state.

Imagine back in 2010 if instead of masked men with guns, trained for intense warfare at sea, boarding a ship in the dead of night, the IDF had dispatched an elite unit of conflict resolution specialists.

Intense naval warfare between the two western caliphates coincided with clashes on land in the Maghrib and attempts at subversive wars in the enemy states in northwest Africa.

Three years of intense sectarian warfare destroyed the region's economy and many of its businesses, schools, roads and other infrastructure.

Karbala has been the scene of the most intense urban warfare in Iraq since the siege of Falluja ended last month.

The initiative has generated deep skepticism in some members of the Shiite-led Iraqi government, who fear that the strategy could intensify the already intense sectarian warfare here.

Blair calculated that a politician offering Britain only "some small comfort" might seem particularly fresh--and trustworthy--after eighteen years of intense ideological warfare and extravagant claims by both parties.