Sentence examples for protracted strife from inspiring English sources
The 13,000 American troops in the country are still so busy in the south and east pursuing Taliban forces and hunting for Al Qaeda's leaders that the last thing they want is protracted strife in the west to add to their problems, another American officer said.
"He did not give up his position, which opened possibilities for protracted internal strife between clans internal to the Ifoghas", Baz Lecocq, a history professor at Ghent University in Belgium, tells Think Africa Press.
In Iraq, as of the end of 2012, there are 2.1 million people living in protracted displacement, their world unraveled because of the US occupation and inter-ethnic strife.
The attacks, most of them car bombings, targeted Shiites and Sunnis, reflecting the protracted sectarian violence that has spiked since the American withdrawal in 2011 and raising concerns that Iraq is facing levels of strife not seen for years.
Those attacks targeted both Shiites and Sunnis, reflecting the protracted sectarian violence that has spiked since the American withdrawal in 2011 and raising concerns that Iraq is facing levels of strife not seen for years.
They are also protracted.
Conflicts are becoming more protracted.
Another protracted silence.
The result was protracted economic weakness.
