Sentence examples for large-scale conflicts from inspiring English sources

They also find that successful attempts increase the intensity of moderate wars, and may end large-scale conflicts faster.

The past 100 years have seen two world wars, large-scale conflicts in Korea and Iraq, and small-scale actions in Africa, the Middle East and Asia.

The multi-platform Battlefront series, which has a new entry out in November, focuses on large-scale conflicts between armies on various planets, where players compete against friends or the AI.

Kenya may avoid a repeat of the 2008 bloodletting, but not Zimbabwe, where Robert Mugabe's regime is fighting for its life (and wealth).Although Africa faces a protest-laden year, this does not signal a return to the large-scale conflicts of the past.

The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, Mr. Gates said, are the first protracted large-scale conflicts since the American Revolution fought entirely by volunteers, but with a force of 2.4 million of active and reserve members that is less than 1 percent — the smallest proportion ever — of the population it serves.

"Those kinds of potential large-scale conflicts can certainly overwhelm some of the fundamental data here at home," said U.S. Bank's Leach.

Despite continuous wars of imperial expansion on the Empire's frontiers and one year-long civil war over the imperial succession, the Roman world was largely free from large-scale conflict for more than two centuries.

Any large-scale conflict can be viewed through several lenses, with subtly different results.

In Asia today, however, nobody seriously argues the benefits of large-scale conflict.

In fact, given the differences among ethnic groups, this could quickly descend into a large-scale conflict.

The BBC broadcast footage of numerous fires burning in the city, but no large-scale conflict was reported overnight.