Sentence examples for localised conflicts from inspiring English sources

Following a long record of instigating localised conflicts throughout the 1930s, Japan began a full-scale invasion of China on 7 July 1937.

The Head Master of the Girls School at South Kordofan, Fatama Hassan said that Afara and Rawad are two of many students who have been missed years of schooling due to protracted localised conflicts.

Casie Copeland, from the International Crisis Group (ICG), pointed out the "fractious" nature of rebel and opposition forces, repeating previous warnings that violence was shifting into "a multi-polar war with localised conflicts".

Climate change and deep poverty, terrorism and localised conflicts, some with global potential, the rise of China and the BRIC countries, the terrible suffering of refugees fleeing war-torn countries, the threat of ISIS and the tensions within the European Union all these are quite recent developments to which we must respond in new ways.

Over the past decade, 13/48 countries in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) have been affected by civil wars resulting in major population displacement (this excludes the much larger number of more localised conflicts).

Civilian leaders in both Berlin and Vienna tried to "localise" conflict in the Balkans.

The results obtained allow us to question the prevailing view that regards neighbourhood conflicts as essentially superficial and localised.

Midline localisation, periumbilical or poorly localised   2.

Ms. Bellamy said the possibilities for global conflagration that weighed heavily on the minds of the UN's founders have dwindled in recent years, and we now witness smaller conflicts like Angola, Kosovo and Rwanda, which -- however localised -- are no less universal in their horrors.

To some extent these conflicts were hypothetical because fighting was so localised that no one really controlled the resistance forces.

Read whatever symbolism you like into that weapon, but it's merely the centrepiece of a consistently fractious universe, as the directors make a point of keeping the wider conflict off-screen: both in class and out on the breadlines, other, more localised skirmishes are never too far away.