With centuries of internal strife, occupations and invasions by the Mongols, Turks, Persians and Russians (among others), she added, Georgian culture faced far greater obstacles than a few bickering bishops.
But huge problems remained: a fractured country, gutted by repressive regimes, civil strife and incompetent occupation.
After decades of internal strife and foreign occupation, Cyprus regarded acceptance into the European family as a promise of stability and the chance to forge a more modern economy.
I have faith despite the immense challenges that lie ahead, of rebuilding a state and a nation that has had to endure decades of tyrannical dictatorship, sanctions, and war, and then occupation and internal strife.
The Occupation causes division, strife, tension and alienation in Jewish families and Jewish communities the world over..... Nothing delegitimizes Israel more in the eyes of the world - and in the eyes of many Jews - than the nation's unwillingness or inability to dismantle and end the Occupation.
Painstaking analysis of the reports also showed that there were more than 66,000 civilians among the total of 109,000 listed deaths during Iraq's invasion, occupation and subsequent sectarian strife.
He pointed to rebounds from labor strife in the mid-1920s; the Japanese occupation from 1941 to 1945; United Nations and United States embargoes during the Korean War that prompted a shift from trade to light industry 50 years ago; and Hong Kong's more recent move to a service economy after industrial jobs were shipped to mainland China.
In Iraq, as of the end of 2012, there are 2.1 million people living in protracted displacement, their world unraveled because of the US occupation and inter-ethnic strife.
Many of them due to violence set off by America's invasions and occupations and the resulting civil strife.
Anyone who believes that September 11th thrust us into a Manichaean conflict between good and evil should visit Iraq, where the simplicity of that formula lies half buried under all the crosscurrents of foreign occupation and social chaos and ethnic strife.
