Sentence examples for pockets of conflict from inspiring English sources

The uncertainties of war are particularly evident on this fluid battlefield, which is less a front than a number of pockets of conflict sprawled across a river valley.

There was no frontline, only pockets of conflict and moving, urban, guerilla forces ebbing and flowing in the mountains, deserts and villages.

Full report [PDF] Summary report [PDF] Regional report[PDF] Asia and the Pacific map[PDF] The Asia-Pacific region has an emergency profile characterized by a combination of natural disasters and civil/political unrest with pockets of conflict situations.

As such tactics spread on both sides, fears are growing throughout the region that Bolivia's crisis could produce, if not civil war, then pockets of fierce conflict across its rebellious tropical lowlands, which are an important source of natural gas and food for neighboring countries.

Any pockets of local conflict will be avoided and returned to when the situation allows.

In Colombia, intensifying pockets of armed conflict are adding to already high levels of displacement and gender-based violence, especially against women and children.

While the majority of African countries are peaceful, pockets of insecurity and conflict are an illustration that some of our countries remain fragile; and fragility in one country impacts negatively on others in the region.

Consider the course that we're on if we fail to confront the status quo: Extremists sowing terror in pockets of the world; protracted conflicts that grind on and on; genocide; mass atrocities; more nations with nuclear weapons; melting ice caps and ravaged populations; persistent poverty and pandemic disease.

Mandera is an example of a community marginalized combined with internecine conflicts, pockets of extremism, poor human development, cross border terrorism, which has trapped its people in poverty, misery and desperation.

The formation of optimal lipophilic contacts with the surface of the thrombin S3 pocket and the full desolvation of this pocket can conflict with the formation of an optimal hydrogen bond between ligand and protein.

He said the Americans had in mind pockets of stability in Syria's two conflicts: areas where coalition forces had defeated Islamic State militants, and areas where ceasefires could "de-escalate" the civil war.