With the possible exception of the British in Malaya, it is hard to think of many insurgencies in modern times that have been crushed by a Western occupying power.Post-colonial politics, stronger concerns for human rights, the rapid dispersal of news: all these (good) things make today's conflicts even harder to win for occupiers.
A common finding by Casale et al. (2007) was, for example, the scarcity of long-term parental planning, despite caregivers' strong concerns for the future of their children and awareness of threats to their welfare, options and potential strategies.
With the first he shared a strong concern for philosophical method, with the second an overwhelming interest in matter in motion.
Lehane, while presenting internal polling data showing strong concern for climate in Steyer's seven targeted states, acknowledged that the issue is important in trying to define what he called the "Republican troglodyte narrative".
The presence of bathrooms in most of the houses and the remarkable system of covered drains indicate a strong concern for cleanliness that may have been related to concepts of ritual purity but perhaps merely to ideas of hygiene.
Bayer, for example, began demonstrating a strong concern for environmental issues as early as 1901.
Nevertheless, the elimination of ceria nano-particles from the organism is very slow and there is a strong concern for toxic effect of ceria due to its accumulation.
Most experimental studies shared the opinion that there is a strong concern for the environment, and a strong belief that lifestyle changes are required to solve environmental problems [38,39,54,55,90].
Many of these pastors also had a strong concern for social justice as a central concern for Christian faith.
Driven by a strong concern for social justice and the abuses of capitalism, Charles Dickens wrote Hard Times.
