Sentence examples for regional violence from inspiring English sources

Now it risks being sucked into a catastrophic vortex of regional violence centered on Syria.

Without such a settlement, Syrian and regional violence will continue — whether the Ba'athist regime survives or not.

President Obama is committed to serious negotiations and, for now, there is a lull in regional violence.

Today, he and other members of Jordanian opposition movements say they are increasingly disillusioned by economic hardship and by regional violence across the border, especially in neighboring Syria.

The killing of Sheik Yassin seemed, at least in the short term, likely to increase regional violence as Palestinian groups called for retaliatory attacks.

What we may well get is local or even regional violence as part of a power struggle that will determine on what terms that settlement is reached.

Boko Haram acts within century-old systems of regional border violence.

The states will also share details about how guns are trafficked and sold within their borders and designate universities that can collaborate on regional gun violence research, according to a memorandum of understanding signed by the states' governors, all Democrats.

Two high-level meetings in recent months involving senior military commanders and intelligence officials and/or top-level government representatives spotlight Pakistan's difficulty in coming to grips with domestic and regional political violence resulting from decades of support of militant Islamist and jihadist groups for foreign policy and ideological reasons.

Consequently, the intelligence EDs can add to existing criminal justice systems has led to the development of local and regional ED violence surveillance systems in some countries (e.g., UK [ 11, 12], Jamaica [ 13], Colombia, El Salvador and Nicaragua [ 14]).

Frustrated with the failure of Congress to enact a universal background check requirement, and alarmed by the spiking opioid epidemic, elected officials and police chiefs across New England began holding a series of regional gun-violence summits organized by Boston Mayor Marty Walsh in 2014.