It hardly helps that threaded through the book is a science-fiction plot about warring bands of immortals, named the Horologists and the Anchorites.
(I am large, I contain multitudes)." If these different strains of thought were held by discrete groups of single-minded people, we would have a Republican Party of five warring bands.
The specific mission of the troops deployed in Azerbaijan was unclear, but they seemed to have two main tasks: to subdue and disarm warring bands of Armenians and Azerbaijanis in the west of the republic, and to end attacks on the few remaining Armenians in Baku.
Since those first warring bands of humanity, the Christian order of time has given us little more than a faux virtue of patience for the coming of a peace that is out of our reach and no greater vice than the complacency to wallow in sanctimonious defeat, increasing our wealth and might while we wait for Jesus to come again and make do everything for us.
Most native prose of this period was concerned with the hero Finn and his war band (fian).
Ossian, Gaelic Oisín, the Irish warrior-poet of the Fenian cycle of hero tales about (MacCool) and his war band, the Fianna Éireann.
Next came the bardd teulu, who was the poet of the ruler's war band although he seems to have been poet to the ruler's family as well.
Fenian cycle, also called Fionn cycle or Ossianic cycle, in Irish literature, tales and ballads centring on the deeds of the legendary Finn MacCumhaill (MacCool) and his war band, the Fianna Éireann.
He must have said: 'We're a radical anti-war band, we're called Black Sabbath, we're on 20 hits of LSD, and we really think that we can change the world and overthrow the government.' In the run-up to Bush's re-election we would play 'War Pigs', but we knew it wasn't going to change anything politically.
Civilians caught in times of war band together and find community and emotional warmth they report not having known in any other way.
On the other hand, US planes did not target Isis war bands when they were advancing to capture Palmyra from the Syrian army.
