Sentence examples for strife in which from inspiring English sources

Selim came to the throne in the wake of civil strife in which he, his brother, and their father, Bayezid II, had been involved.

He commended to God's care "all those who have become widows, orphans, mourners, or sufferers in the lamentable civil strife in which we are unavoidably engaged".

"Faithless" is a wrenching tale of marital strife in which Ms. Endre plays an actress who betrays her musician husband with his best friend, a theater director.

It was the club's decision to cancel, but Benitez is understood to have been worried being drawn into the factional strife in which he had been seen as pro-Hicks and anti-Parry.

7. Harvest of Thorns by Shimmer Chinodya (1989) The prolific Chinodya has written a number of striking books, most notably Dew in the Morning, an exploration of an idyllic rural boyhood; the sophisticated Strife, in which sins from the pre-colonial past cast shadows into the present; and the rich and varied short-story collection Can We Talk?

Europe appears most immediately vulnerable to the strife in Libya, which produces almost 2 percent of the world's oil.

Tension is running high in the country these days, with fears that the indictments could unleash strife in Lebanon, which remains deeply divided by sect, ideology and the agendas of foreign patrons.

Since Wednesday, an estimated 30,000 northeasterners have fled Bangalore, a large number of them students, after receiving text messages saying they would come under attack by Muslim groups seeking revenge for the ongoing ethnic strife in Assam, which has resulted in the displacement of over 500,000 people.

Internal strife is described in which some officials refuse to be a further part of or cover up for those who initiated the hack.

Less visible in media coverage - and, for that very reason, of perhaps even greater concern are the children and women mutilated and killed in Sierra Leone; abducted as slaves and concubines in Sudan; or subjected to myriad other forms of violence and abuse in the dozens of strife-torn countries in which UNICEF is working.

The story that best encapsulates Mr. Banks's cyclical sense of domestic strife is "The Visit," in which a man returns to the scene and the memories of his father's bullying.