Sentence examples for strife around from inspiring English sources

Land conflicts contribute to civil strife around the globe, as demonstrated in the Philippines, Afghanistan and other countries.

Political instability and civil strife around the region have scared off foreign investors to larger markets with more obvious Internet plays.

Possibly, though, he was affected by the defensive strife around him at Molineux and no longer did he appear to be a credible challenger for Ray Wilson's England shirt.

The most recent high-profile example of the racial strife around water in the US was a pool party in Texas, where a police officer pulled a gun on black teenagers after they were "refusing to leave".

In his Supreme Court appeal, Negusie v. Mukasey, No. 07-499, his lawyers at the Yale Law School Supreme Court Clinic told the justices that with an increase in civil strife around the world, the issue was arising frequently and required a uniform response in the courts.

The film takes place on Long Island and focuses on an Irish-American family -- in this case, the Fitzgeralds -- dealing with some internal strife around the holiday season.

BEIRUT — Much of the speculation about whether Lebanon might be plunged into renewed strife revolves around the impact of the anticipated indictments by the Special Tribunal for Lebanon, which was established by the United Nations to hold accountable the murderers of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri and 22 other people who were killed in February 2005.

Set in a mixed Christian-Muslim village, the movie (starring Labaki alongside a cast of mostly nonactors) tells the story of Christian and Muslim women who go to Lysistrata-like extremes to keep their menfolk from turning on each other as sectarian strife breaks out around them.

I was still kind of, well, perky, contemplating the qualifying process, playing fledging social director, trying to figure my adviser out, working to avoid the strife I saw around me, trying to keep from feeling too lonely, and trying to figure out whether I really was meant to be here.

"A lot of the people who got into real strife were the ones who turned around and tried to come back," Fischer said.

An options expiry in the morning passed without too much strife, but after rising around 45 points, the FTSE 100 was down 5.8 points at 5665.8 by midday.