Sentence examples for lost conflict from inspiring English sources

The dust of Afghanistan piles up in front of the storefronts and covers the ruins of the buildings destroyed during the Soviet period, or during the civil war or during some lost conflict from centuries past.

The US must not fail in Libya, he added, saying he spoke as someone experienced in a lost conflict, a reference to his time as a prisoner of war in Vietnam.

The history of Megara after 630 bce is largely that of its losing conflict with its powerful neighbour, Athens, to which it lost the island of Salamís about 570.

Mid-level leaders win or lose conflicts.

Mr. Steele declared the conflict a losing battle and called it "a war of Obama's choosing".

The sums lost through conflict are huge.

He recalled 1894, when a corrupt Chinese military lost a conflict with Japan despite access to advanced European ships.

Most of the demonstrators were supporters of Michel Aoun, an army general who lost a conflict against Syrian troops during the 1975-90 civil war and is now in exile.

Paris ultimately lost the conflict, despite the fact Americans won their independence.

"I only wish that someone had been able to verbalise all those things when I was a lost and conflicted Ravo girl," she said.

Captain Olsen said the P.O.W./M.I.A. Accounting Command has 600 people working worldwide to recover and identify the remains of American servicemen lost in conflicts reaching back to World War II.