Sentence examples for native strife from inspiring English sources

The split in Congress reflected a division in the population, which is why the war's earliest casualties were not from foreign attacks but from native strife.

A native of Kashmir, the strife-torn border state between India and Pakistan, she was raised mainly in London.

Responding to a growing number of families who are entering the United States illegally, the immigration service has opened a new shelter in a converted nursing home here exclusively for asylum-seeking families fleeing persecution and death threats in their strife-torn native countries.

The Observer has learned that the leader of the gang is a highly-paid British agent who joined the Loyalist Volunteer Force to foment sectarian strife in his native north Belfast during the 1990s.

Drawing on biblical codes of morality, they declared that the role of hunting was to feed a young nation and in Roosevelt's phrase—"to keep men hardy, so that at need they can show themselves fit to take part in work or strife for their native land".It is as well that Roosevelt never saw a modern hunting superstore.

Goya's work from this time indulges in the macabre, using fantastically morbid imagery, which at once reflects the mental state of the artist (as at this time he was struck with an illness which rendered him deaf), as well as the internal strife in his native Spain.

The Persians were tolerant of native cults but, in order to avert internal strife and to prevent religion from becoming a mask for rebellion, insisted that these be regulated under responsible authority.

A humble soldier, Ya'qub, surnamed al-Saffar ("the Coppersmith"), had exploited the decade-long Samarra strife to first gain control over his native Sistan, and by 873 he had gained control over almost all of the eastern lands of the Caliphate, ousting the hitherto dominant Tahirids from power, a move denounced by al-Muwaffaq.

I am enrolled as a member of the Seminole Nation of Oklahoma, which, along with the Cherokee Nation, has recently experienced great strife in defining what it means to be Native.

Bradley, a New Jersey native, had been cast as an uplifting figure during a time of strife in Egypt, which was rocked by the Arab Spring as well as the riot in Port Said in which 74 soccer fans were killed at an Egyptian league match.

For example, in Vermont, USA, purple loose strife is a beautiful plant, but is an invasive species that hurts the native habitat.