Sentence examples for smaller conflicts from inspiring English sources

Year round there are many many smaller conflicts, anywhere from a few players up to several thousand participating.

"After the breakdown of the cold war and the confrontation of the two empires, we should have expected many more smaller conflicts.

This, more than anything, is what gives the History its unique texture: the vivid sense of an immensely complex conflict reflected, agonizingly, in hundreds of smaller conflicts, each one presenting painful choices, all leading to the great and terrible resolution.

He denounced racial intolerance and nuclear weapons and promoted a renewal of faith -- calling on churches to train "Christian commandos" -- but did not immerse himself in the myriad smaller conflicts of the church.

David Douglas Duncan is the first to admit he is lucky: certainly lucky to have emerged unscathed from combat photography in World War II, Korea, Vietnam and several smaller conflicts; lucky to have become a friend of one of the 20th century's most famous artists, Pablo Picasso, about whom he published six coffee-table books; lucky to be in good health as his 88th birthday approaches in January.

There were, in addition, several prolonged and deadly smaller conflicts in, for example, Ireland, Spain, and Yugoslavia.

Fighting in several small-scale conflicts such as Operation Avalanche, Operation Mountain Resolve, and Operation Mountain Viper, the division maintained a strategy of small units moving through remote regions of the country to interact directly with the population and drive out insurgents.

You know these small little conflicts; we have a lot of them".

Many small-scale conflicts -- for example, Lyndon B. Johnson's intervention in the Dominican Republic and Ronald Reagan's invasion of Grenada -- proved military and political successes.

Second, the nuclear threat was of no use in cases of civil war, insurgency, and other small-scale conflicts, a fact Stalin evidently relied on in several instances.

Instead, the service will spend $14.5 billion to create new weaponry, particularly a mobile, lightweight armored vehicle that could be used for combat in small-scale conflicts as well as major wars.