Last month's outbreak of fighting came after a period of relative calm in the strife-hit region, following a ceasefire announced by Bashir last year and extended for a month in a speech on New Year's Eve.
In the central role of Cora Flood, whose marriage is on the verge of collapse under the pressure of economic and emotional strife, Donna Lynn Champlin hits all the right notes — maternal tenderness and frustration, wifely resentment and affection — cleanly if not always subtly.
So if you were to put together the perfect specimen for someone who might fall into a bit of strife, professional athletes hit the category most.
IT WAS an enchanted island of calm in a region hit by strife.
Experts said that Suzuki was likely to concentrate its managerial resources on strengthening its grip on markets like India, where it has been hit by worker strife in recent months.
France, who were hit by internal strife at the 2010 World Cup, capitulated against the Swedes on Tuesday and would have lost more heavily if the goalkeeper Hugo Lloris had not made several saves.
United Parcel Service Tuesday reported higher quarterly earnings ahead of Wall Street forecasts, helped by an improving economy and faded fears the world's No. 1 package carrier would be hit by labor strife.
Reported cases of rape and sexual attacks against women have doubled in areas hit by political strife -- and the gangs who are carrying them out are doing so with impunity.
Armed with huge volumes of data on married couples, scientists have identified some simple but powerful indicators that can help couples recognize marital strife long before their relationship hits the skids.
It offered music as pointed as the songs' titles: Hit Me, Shut Up, Strife, I Am Here.
And dissonant, too: her hits, teen-strife anthems like "Fifteen," "You Belong With Me" and "Teardrops on My Guitar," are beginning to sound much younger than she is.
