If today's New York seems pathologically obsessed with its own beautification, then the city's long-standing war against graffiti helps to explain why.
The Baathists' long-standing war against Iraqi Kurds was intensifying, and it appeared that Saddam wanted to secure the loyalty of those who worked in Kirkuk's valuable oil industry.
The counterintelligence and security services of the Colombian interior and defense ministries have played a prominent role in that country's long-standing war against various Marxist guerrilla groups and in its efforts to combat drug traffickers, who often work in concert with the guerrillas and are well-armed and well-financed.
1699 Trelawne, England January 16, 1754 London, England Edward Trelawny, (born 1699, Trelawne, Cornwall, England died January 16, 1754, London) British governor of Jamaica from April 1738 to September 1752 who ended a long-standing war between white planters and descendants of black former slaves known as Maroons.
Ceremonial tsantsa are heads ritually reduced by the Shuar, Achuar, Awajún (Aguaruna), Wampís (Huambisa) and Candoshi-Shapra, following a long-standing war trophy tradition.
This has all raised the long-standing war of hate speech versus free speech.
The widespread need stems from a long-standing war between Christians and Muslims that's morphed into a brutal power struggle for the country's many natural resources.
He was promoted Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George (KCMG) on 3 June 1893, "in recognition of his services in conducting a mission to the Yoruba country which resulted in the negotiation of important treaties and brought to an end a long-standing war".
Since 1998, the USA has engaged in two long-standing wars, and simply googling genetic engineering produces multiple news stories.
Last year, the Colombian people overcame one of the world's longest standing civil wars and we are starting 2017 with the hope that negotiators in Geneva will also agree on a shared and peaceful future for Cyprus.
Our long standing tradition of viewing support for war as patriotic and opposition as unpatriotic plays right into the hands of the people who stand to make money from those wars, and leads much of the media to applaud wars, however unnecessary, and to condemn those who are against them.
