I hope you can see from our front page today that we've caught the holiday mood and, unusually for a newspaper in these days of strife, war and disaster, we're accentuating the positive.
"As we're going through the eye of the needle, that's when we see political strife, economic strife, war and famine".
But she recognises how British, French and especially Russian actions exacerbated the crisis, and rejects the view that this was a German pre-emptive strike, a "flight forward" from domestic strife into war, while arguing that German policies recklessly and knowingly risked war.
Both arrived in the United States as refugee children, fleeing strife and war at home.
It's also one of the most multilayered problems on Earth, the results of which lead to human misery, political strife, and war.
But Han's fortunes turned during the reign of Li Yu, the third and last emperor of the Southern Tang dynasty, who lived an indolent life of luxury as his empire was beset with strife and war.
Mr. Demjanjuk's son, John Jr., who has been deeply involved in his defense across a generation of court proceedings, has suggested that there was a second Ivan Demjanjuk, his father's cousin in Ukraine, now dead, who might have taken on the father's identity in the strife of war.
3 So great, indeed, is the perversity that reigns in factional strife and war; for men in power take no account of justice, but determine on friend and foe according as their own interests and advantage at the time dictate, and accordingly they regard the same men, now as their enemies, now as their friends, according to the occasion.
The end result was strife (or war).
Iraq, another country ravaged by civil strife and war, hosts a quarter of a million Syrians.
"But a population who are in good mental health, emotionally stable, more grateful, and more likely to forgive are a pretty great resource for a society with so much strife and war".
