Sentence examples for pervasive war from inspiring English sources

A United Nations report released last week found evidence of pervasive war crimes in Syria; most were the work of the government, but enough were attributed to the rebels to give anyone pause.

The counter argument was, in essence, twofold: that cinema could hardly be expected to be insulated from a world of pervasive war, criminality and social disturbance; and that the exploration of violence was an aesthetic opportunity for ambitious filmmakers.

During the period of Republican expansionism when slavery had become pervasive, war captives were a main source of slaves.

Nixon and the political class had denounced students as thugs and subversives for their resistance to the pervasive US war crimes in Vietnam, the secret wars against Laos and Cambodia, the flagrant arming and supporting of tyrants throughout Latin America, and the lavish funding of apartheid and colonialism in Africa.

But Mexico's Supreme Court ruled on Thursday that the colonel should be tried in civilian courts, a decision that human rights groups say could upend the way Mexico deals with rights abuses committed by the military in the course of fighting the country's pervasive drug war.

"The genius of Tomas Alfredson's film is that despite the fabulously evocative period detail (you can smell the stale cigarette smoke lingering in the yellowing wallpaper) and the pervasive cold war dread, this adaptation of John le Carré's well-loved bestseller is not about spies at all.

The song was greeted with jeers, not simply because it sounded ridiculous but because, for many viewers, that sound was inseparable from what they saw as a series of bad decisions by ESPN, which recently has become, largely against its will, a central player in the pervasive culture war of Trump's America.

We are living in an age of borderless war, pervasive terror and prevailing fear.

Showing how the pervasive destructiveness of war allows small, reasonable decisions to catapult the unwary into the heart of a chaotic nightmare, it explores whether doing the right thing can lead to terrible wrong, whether caring for human life is even possible in the midst of savage combat.

Pervasive conflict and war often catalyze the disintegration of communities and families as well as the disruption of social norms governing people's sexual behaviour [ 20].

But it is more pervasive than anti-war sentiment, and it requires more active intervention and a more focused and integrated strategy than exists today.