The external causes included government policies, the vulnerability resulting from small size, competition from larger businesses, civil strife, natural disasters, and general economic downturns.
Thief!" For some reason I laughed nervously at the large woman's strife.
The new Mac App Store is expected to cause some strife for larger software companies, including Adobe and Microsoft, that will have to battle a new wave of app developers that can sell software through the new store, bypassing expensive traditional software distribution.
Their leadership enlisted their friends and even their opposition around the larger cause - racial strife.
Eventually, FARC commanders came to believe that Delgado had been co-opted by Colombian military intelligence, as part of a larger operation to cause internal strife.
Mr. Annan's appeal for East Timor comes when billions of dollars are also being sought for rebuilding Afghanistan, a much larger country with greater internal strife, and Congo, a huge undeveloped country that has been further weakened by civil war.
The Haitian migration to the Dominican Republic, its neighbor on the island of Hispaniola, has been large, longstanding and filled with strife.
Worst case: A power struggle develops within the army, and a nuclear-armed Pakistan collapses into sectarian and ethnic strife while the large jihadist contingent operates unfettered.
The circumstances of Bahray's killing are now under intense investigation, with police looking into everything, from internal strife within the large group of Eritrean refugees to a racial motive.
And perhaps we were: The world at large may be filled with strife, but all Key West asks is that you sit back long enough to remember that life's supposed to be fun.
