conflict (exact matches only)

The marriage is bursting with strong emotions and ill-concealed conflicts, and much too complicated for the facile armchair psychologizing that goes on during a Presidential campaign.

It was Passover 1968, a year after Israel captured the West Bank, and Levinger and her rabbi husband believed they were on a holy mission - to renew a Jewish presence in a biblical city where Jews had lived for centuries until the Arab-Israeli conflict drove them out in 1929.

Now that Wilson's Patriots (15-2) are playing the Colts (14-4) in Sunday's AFC Championship game at Gillette Stadium, there's no denying he has a few conflicted friends back home.

''I think we know what their conflicts are.'' The voters in Reilly's polls weren't focused on the relative merits of the candidates' policy proposals -- and, given the minor programmatic distinctions of each candidate's platform, it's pretty hard to blame them.

In his book The American Political Tradition Hofstadter criticized the Founders for failing to develop "a means by which [our] society may transcend eternal conflict and rigid adherence to property rights as its integrating principles." This means more conflict, more infighting, more of the spurious excuses and bully tactics that turned United's defence of Ferdinand into such a sick joke the first time around.

Col Bob Stewart was commander of the UN troops in Bosnia during the Balkans conflict.I have worked against the death penalty in the United States for nearly 20 years.

Low military budgets and avoidance of entanglements in distant conflicts like the Korean War are other concrete benefits to the people that Tharoor has not credited Nehruvian foreign policy.

There were conflicting reports about whether one or two vehicles were involved in the attack.

It began relatively small—a diplomatic crisis involving Corinth, a Spartan ally; some low-level combat in a town near Athens—but metastasized into a conflict that lasted nearly three decades, involved numerous states, and resulted, finally, in the defeat of Athens and the abolition of its democratic institutions.

Because Sparta and its allies dominated the southern peninsula known as the Peloponnese—and because the men who wrote the histories of the conflict were usually Athenians—the war came to be called the Peloponnesian.

As the Yale historian Donald Kagan dryly points out in “The Peloponnesian War” (Viking; $29.95), his brisk, if tendentious, new account, the Spartans probably thought of the conflict as the Athenian War; but then there were no Spartan historians to call it that.

As the conflict spread across many fronts, from the Hellespont to Sicily to the coast of Asia Minor, it began to seem frustratingly unwinnable.

“My method has been,” he writes, “to make the speakers say what, in my opinion, was called for by each situation.” This, more than anything, is what gives the History its unique texture: the vivid sense of an immensely complex conflict reflected, agonizingly, in hundreds of smaller conflicts, each one presenting painful choices, all leading to the great and terrible resolution.

(As Kagan observes, the Spartans went to war to save an alliance they had created precisely to protect themselves from conflict.) In the bipartite world of the Cold War, you could choose to read Thucydides’ carefully structured presentation of Athens’ decline as a cautionary tale about the moral decay that accompanies abuses of imperial power.

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