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strife

A strife is an angry or bitter conflict.

strife

bitter conflict; heated often violent dissension (= discord) lack of agreement or harmony

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The impoverished, petty, strife-torn kingdoms of Western Europe embarked on five centuries of uninterrupted expansion.
Peace lies upon the eternal sea. silently it spreads, rolling out in broad waves, to soothe the world's suffering and strife.
I've had enough of fighting turmoil, strife.
There must be an end to all strife among us.
While Egypt tore herself in civil strife. I doubled my fortune, as physician to the wealthy.
The Lord was angry with me because I disobeyed him by the waters of strife.
The Republic. is still weak from 20 years of civil strife.
I had seen him before in all parts of the world in all forms and guises, wherever there was sin wherever there was strife wherever there was corruption, persecution there he was also.
It was. Unfortunately, human nature is apt to determine where peace ends and strife begins.
My life has always been marred by one great disappointment. Disappointment in you all for having destroyed a great and illustrious family by the venomous strife that has divided you for all these years.
Both here and hence pursue me lasting strife, if, once a widow, ever I be wife!
Strife magazine?
My darling sweet Gomez on the cover of Strife magazine.
Those cover pictures are dreadful, especially the ones on Strife magazine.
In our boundless longing to make a home here far from the scurry and strife of humankind.
It's a novel about strife.
A man who dedicated himself to ending strife among men.
Let there be no strife between thee and me. And between thy herdsmen and my herdsmen, for we are brethren.
Now that the tsar has found a wife, He wants to rest from war'n'strife.
You're gonna find the world out there full of nothing but trouble, frustration, and strife.
Deirdre has always been a good companion to me and I never particularly anticipated any marital strife.
Dierdre - that's my wife - and I, we've always been close companions. and I never particularly anticipated any marital strife.
From strife-torn bolivia Ronald rodgers reports on storage jars there.
And endless strife, Peace only a dream-like yearning.
No, from property comes strife.
The strife between the agony of ecstasy and the ecstasy of agony. Strife, then?
A great many couples stay for years in the same old rut that is hated by both husband and wife simply because there's neither strife nor happiness between them.
Do, with their death, bury their parents' strife.
I never particularly anticipated any marital strife.
Look at this Vietnam strife.
And wake her once again to life. Your foes shall perish in the strife.
But the gangland strife did not cease.
Strife without reason.
I'm glad that comdrade Kole is here, he's our contributor for many years now, and he sopported our school so many times in it's strife to get modern so I would ask him to hand over this gift.

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We can dig into their family histories in strife-torn Dagestan, or examine, once again, the lethal appeal of Islamist radicalism.
But an equally fundamental division - one that has contributed as much to the ongoing insurrection as sectarian strife and opposition to the American-led military occupation - is the widening gap between Iraq's rich and poor.
The latter path could easily lead to civil strife and, perhaps, another civil war.
A world without political strife seemed like a recipe for bliss.
Periodic civil strife and rebellion were not eliminated, but only in Vietnam was the longevity of a dynasty a cloak for inextinguishable internecine warfare.
Democracy is supposed to defend us against civil strife, politicization of memory incites such strife.
During the 1980s and 1990s, half of the IMF's member developing countries endured severe financial crises and were forced to scale back social expenditures so that poverty, inequality and the potential for civil strife increased substantially.
Granting special autonomy to the two most strife-ridden provinces - Aceh and Papua (Irian Jaya) - may also reduce tension between national and local military commanders.
The rise of incompetent states brings about huge challenges: proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, terrorism, religious and ethnic strife, rivalry for natural resources, waves of migration, drug trafficking, and deterioration of the environment.
Doing so would contribute significantly to creating jobs, enhancing food security, and fostering stability in countries emerging from strife.
In its first years, Al Jazeera was simultaneously hailed as a pioneering media outlet for reform in the Arab world and as an instigator of internal conflict and strife.
What about Nigeria, where other risks are amplified by civil strife?
Eventually, after decades of strife, outside mediation helped.
Rome was an agrarian society with low economic productivity and a high level of internecine strife.
The first lesson we should draw from this month of civil strife is that development, however well-managed, cannot solve everything.
Pakistan suffers from internal strife and is prone to seeing conspiracies against it that include virtually all of its neighbors and often the US.
America has also been frustrated in its desire to obtain regional support for its policy of direct involvement in the Colombia's internal strife.
At a time when the Middle East is aflame with sectarian strife, the observance of the Christian holiday is a sad reminder that the region's distinctive religious, ethnic, and cultural diversity is rapidly disappearing.
Public demonstrations of dissent are regarded as contrary to Islam, because they foster divisiveness and lead to civil strife.
And, unlike Thailand, all of them had suffered from war or internal strife.
But, for indigenous communities, it will open a new chapter of dispossession, poverty, and strife; and, for all Peruvians, it amounts to a massive missed opportunity to put the country on a more sustainable development path.

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