Sentence examples for sporadic war from inspiring English sources

Meanwhile, the sporadic war with Castile both impoverished the Kingdom of Aragon and deprived Alfonso and his family of their ancestral estates in Castile.

The government has also been fighting a sporadic war against rebels in the northwestern Sada Province, where violence erupted again over the past week after months of relative quiet.

Since the early 1980's, the State Department says, the group has waged a sporadic war against the Iranian government, attacking its embassies around the world, bombing its oil pipelines and assassinating some of its high-ranking officials.

The current discussions are the latest in decades of sporadic war and faltering deals.Tuareg rebellions are as old as Mali itself, but a 1992 peace deal set the template for more recent conflicts.

For half a century, Indonesian troops and police officers have fought a shadowy and sporadic war in the vast forests and highlands of Papua, as the western end of New Guinea is known, after taking control of the former Dutch colony in the 1960s.

Then she starts playing "Nyakinyua Rise"—a track with sporadic war calls and cowbells and I remember her telling me it was inspired by a trip her mother took to Kenya last year.

Between them lies a zone of unstable, nonallied states like Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine that witness sporadic wars and other showdowns.

We were also the generation comprised of millions of latch key kids, divorced parents, erratic fluctuations in the economy, deadly transmitted diseases, and sporadic wars.

In 1414, a sporadic new war broke out, known as the "Hunger War" from the Knights' scorched-earth tactics of burning fields and mills; but both the Knights and the Lithuanians were too exhausted from the previous war to risk a major battle, and the fighting petered out in the autumn.

Lebanon had already endured seven years of sporadic civil war, largely street battles with vintage weaponry.

President Charles G. Taylor, a star player in Liberia's 14 years of sporadic civil war, resigned and left his country for exile in Nigeria.