That way, the longer the strife goes on, the less isolated his Alawites (perhaps 12 percent of Syrians) feel and the more they justify their backs-to-the-wall defense of privileges accumulated over more than 40 years in power.
"You know, even when she's in the midst of the kind of strife that is going on in southern Arizona with the immigration laws and the battleground that Arizona has been, she really always looks on the bright side," she said of her friend.
But, despite her anonymity, Myerson left out much of what was really going on in her family, above all the strife linked to her eldest son's use of skunk cannabis.
Biblical strife, with beheadings and all the crazy shit that's going on in the world.
Nojima had always planned for Cloud Strife's memories of his life to be proven false as the game went on, but he had not decided on how to implement this until he hit on the character of Zack.
A little strife goes a long way in Edie Brickell's songs.
You have here, just as you have in the Manual of Discipline of the Dead Sea monastery, the two ways of light and of darkness that lead respectively to life and to death, and that are presided over each by its angel, and you have, also, the similar language of the "strife" that goes on between them and the "crown" that the good man may win.
"[There are] many ironies here, but one of them is the fiasco of this rollout has been obscured because of this internecine strife that's been going on in the Republican Party," McCain said.
"But, if Iraq is torn apart by sectarian strife, the Kurds will go on their own journey.
