Sentence examples for local struggle from inspiring English sources

But Godane seems to be trying to plug a local struggle into a global ideology.

Two factors are harming efforts to stabilize Mali: the local struggle for power and AQIM's determination to harass not only French soldiers, but any other outside presence.

And sometimes (al-Qaeda) this local struggle mingles with the idea that Islam is locked in perennial jihad against the unbelievers.

It was a first salvo in a local struggle for the stones and, perhaps, the souls of the Russians living here.

To a man, they proclaim their differences from al-Qaeda, insisting that from the first they have waged a local struggle against a tyrannical ruler, not a global struggle targeting the West.

"The teachers' union here saw this as a local struggle within a larger national battle of what a lot of teachers call the privatization of schools," said Robert Bruno, a professor of labor relations at the University of Illinois.

They focus primarily on local struggles, battling the "near enemy," not the "far enemy": the United States.

In Syria, also, Ptolemy avoided involvement in local struggles, though Sosibius attempted to embroil Egypt there.

To turn these scattered local struggles into the norm is the challenge.

First, al-Qaida tried repeatedly to graft a global ideology on to individual local struggles.

It is true that most of al-Qaeda's focus is currently on local struggles rather than the "far" enemy in the West.