Sentence examples for lethal war from inspiring English sources

The longest running, most lethal war in southern Africa seemed to be at an end.

A onetime psychiatrist who led a campaign of extreme nationalism and instigated a lethal war of ethnic cleansing, he has been closely guarded since the war ended.

It sings the praises of "Egypt's youth", but wages a lethal war against every one of them identified with the revolution.

Steeped in the often frivolous and ugly political demagogy presented to us daily in the media, we can easily forget that there is a lethal war going on in Afghanistan.

Boris Johnson's criticisms of Saudi Arabia's illegal bombing in Yemen and lethal proxy war with Iran in Syria are broadly accurate.

His tale, detailed in a new memoir, provides a rare, firsthand look at the often lethal spy war that the rival Koreas waged for decades and that many fear may persist today.

In Somalia, in a far less publicized but even more lethal civil war, there has been virtually no regional or international effort to stop the fighting, and it has become increasingly difficult to provide even minimum humanitarian relief.

In a more successful and less lethal cold war assay, the C.I.A. was waging a cultural-political battle that roiled the intelligentsia of several countries and continues to stir controversy.

As they become embroiled in a lethal turf war between drug lords, the narrator, Gringo, probes the mystery of his mother's disappearance, and that of his cousin a reformed gangster turned pavement hawker.Gringo, torn between moral scruples and the need to "look after number one", learns that there are only two ways to kill a cat: civilised or savage.

For even when 20th-century progress is most undeniable, prediction suggests not a continued ascent, but the possibility, perhaps even the imminence, of some catastrophe: another and more lethal world war, an ecological disaster, a technology whose triumphs may make the world uninhabitable by the human species, or whatever current shape the nightmare may take.

Increasingly, civil wars and strife have become more common and more lethal than wars between states, which have grown ever less frequent.