It is obvious that Héctor Abad had no choice but to tell it — as a personal catharsis, surely, but also as a reckoning with his country, Colombia, and its near-perpetual state of violent strife.
This place has seen its fair share of strife.
The states of those strife-torn countries have failed their denizens, so they're seeking out places where the state provides at least partial shelter from everyday violence and uncertainty.
Ms Winterton will have to find a way of allowing dissident MPs to step out of line without giving the impression that Labour is in a state of near-permanent internecine strife.
More specifically, the judges condemn them for betraying "the noble profession of journalism" by "portraying the Country -- untruthfully -- to be in a state of chaos... internal strife and disarray".
Jammu and Kashmir: The strife-torn state of Jammu and Kashmir gets its first juvenile home (Kashmir Live).
Yet the BBC team who polled voters as they left the booths noted that far more of those switching from Labour to Liberal cited the strife-torn state of the Labour Party as their reason for moving than specifically mentioned Mr Tatchell.
There Ethiopians imbibe the gospel of industrialisation overseen by a strong state that exerts tight control over an ethnically diverse population with a history of strife.But all is not well in the relationship.
ONCE a separatist, now a politician, Sajjad Lone says that pragmatism is gaining in popularity in the disputed and sometimes strife-torn Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir.
Ravaged by 400 years of strife, Luxembourg shrank and shrank until 1839, when it was established as an independent state within its present borders.
