Sentence examples for long violence from inspiring English sources

But the forces of youth are blunted by the same forces that have robbed Iraqi society of so much for so long — violence, a stagnant economy, zero-sum politics and sectarianism — and that have prevented a new political class from emerging to take Iraq into a new democratic future.

The U.S. Army seems to have a new solution to the half-century long violence propelled by Colombia's insurgent guerrilla group -- soap operas.

The night-long violence began when two Albanians were shot dead about 9 p.m., but police officers said they thought that the overall violence was a reaction to a grenade attack on the bus filled with ethnic Serbs.

Re "Chilling Echo for Lebanon" (news analysis, front page, Nov. 27), which describes the outbreak of the little and not-so-little wars in Lebanon in 1975: I was the Washington Post correspondent in Beirut for many episodes in that 15-year-long violence.

The month-long violence, in which nearly 800 people have died, was sparked by the disputed re-election of President Mwai Kibaki, has now changed into a raw ethnic conflict pitting mainly Kalenjins and Luos, who supported the opposition, against Kibaki's Kikuyu community.

Ten days after taking office on December 1, 2006, Calderon launched a war on drugs which took more than 120,000 lives and left 30,000 persons missing in his six-year-long violence-filled presidency.

It did not take long for violence to erupt.

To ensure his singular role, Colonel Qaddafi had long wielded violence both at home and abroad.

The Rohingya Muslims of western Burma have long faced violence and persecution.

He also said that security would be eased in the future, as long as violence did not return.

The cartels have long used violence to assert their control over the drug routes from Colombia to the United States.