Sentence examples for violent insurgencies from inspiring English sources

Instead Sri Lanka ended up with two violent insurgencies, the effects of which are still being felt.

THERE has been little sign of Iraq's violent insurgencies being quelled since Iyad Allawi's interim government took over at the end of June.

Indeed, a study I recently conducted with Maria J. Stephan, now a strategic planner at the State Department, compared the outcomes of hundreds of violent insurgencies with those of major nonviolent resistance campaigns from 1900 to 2006; we found that over 50 percent of the nonviolent movements succeeded, compared with about 25 percent of the violent insurgencies.

STEVE COLL: No matter the cause, violent insurgencies against states end when the state figures out how to convert the violence into politics.

Cities struggling to defeat violent insurgencies must galvanise support from residents by boosting the government's presence in underserved districts and providing essential services, according to the former mayor of Somalia's embattled capital, Mogadishu.

As the world's most populous, heterogeneous and raucous democracy, India has long grappled with how to balance its citizens' civil liberties with efforts to put down violent insurgencies that have spawned heinous attacks on civilians.

With that, the group's violent insurgency soon came to an end.

IN THE mid-1990s Egypt's government faced a violent insurgency by Islamist militants.

Yet in the spring of 2004, a violent insurgency was taking hold in Iraq.

Boko Haram has waged a violent insurgency in the north of Africa's most populous nation for seven years.

Many Slavic Macedonians view those changes as a threat and see any peace deal as rewarding a violent insurgency.