Sentence examples for simmering war from inspiring English sources

More damningly, there is the simmering war with far-left Naxalites, which activists say is prosecuted with little regard for human rights.

Mr. Sadr has fought a simmering war of words with a fellow leader in the Iraqi National Alliance, one of the two main Shiite Muslim lists competing in Sunday's vote.

Josh, Anna's son, who returns from college for the summer, is inexorably drawn into the simmering war between Benny, who has never left home, and Carmine, a local politician.

Shukman's Charles Mortimer, a divorced, booze-battered 56-year-old, returns to the scene of an earlier journalistic triumph, the simmering war between Polisario separatists (here called the Rio Camello guerrillas) and Morocco over the Western Sahara.

Mary Phipps, a grandmother from South-Central whose bedroom window faces a wall scarred with graffiti of the simmering war between Bloods and Crips factions said: "Things are out of control.

Ms. Parry's crisp Helena is well judged, and while Mr. Driver brims rather too explosively with animal spirits for the retiring Cliff, who plays the impartial referee in the simmering war between Jimmy and Alison, he embodies the role with a captivating gusto and supplies a creditable Welsh accent.

Yet parts of the north Caucasus are in a state of simmering civil war.

He said the movements were locked in a simmering street war that appeared to intensify of late.

A ruling by the California Supreme Court could give the constantly simmering culture war new salience, as the state becomes the second to allow full-fledged gay marriage.

All pass through mountainous terrain and simmering civil war zones.

The collapse of the Soviet Union took the lid off a number of simmering "bush wars" around the world, and the more sadistic these wars became, the more one side or the other (and sometimes both sides) had a compelling interest in keeping the news media from reporting on their crimes.