He worked as a monitor during the civil war and had obtained a lot of secret information from the enemy.
We find ourselves in the midst of a civil war ruthlessly prosecuted by protagonists whose bloodlust knows no bounds.
Dr Lobstein said: 'the children's food market is worth billions and the struggle for access is tantamount to civil war in the food industry.
In January, as part of an accord that ended a separate civil war between north and south Sudan in 2005, the southerners will vote on whether their region should secede as a newly independent country.
They do not see that these laws and manuals embody the specific characteristics of the civil war and the Red Army in the Soviet Union, and that if we copy and apply them without allowing any change, we shall also be " cutting the feet to fit the shoes" and be defeated.
Despite its mineral wealth the Central African nation suffers from decaying infrastructure and is still recovering from back-to-back civil wars that ended in 2003.
The area was a battleground during the long civil war.
My first stories told of the end of the Salvadorian civil war and the Romanian revolution.
The secession of some southern states from the USA in the 1860s led to the civil war.
I was never much worried about roaming around Vietnam, Rhodesia during its 1970s civil war, and Middle East battlefields, even without a military escort.
In Zimbabwe, for example, how children fared after a civil war and drought was affected by their height in early childhood, according to research by Alderman and his colleagues.
This saw the ascendancy of Ugyen Wangchuck, the ponlop (governor) of Tongsa, who united the country following several civil wars and rebellions in the period 1882-85.
The country was broken by civil war into two embattled states.
There was little doubt, that, with the slightest encouragement, he could put them in motion, and renew the civil war.
Southern politicians who have tried to rise above the passionate rhetoric surrounding the civil war have frequently found themselves dragged back into the mire.
Such a battle was sure to begin a bitter civil war. There also was the danger that fighting would cause slave states still in the Union to secede and join the southern Confederacy.
Many of the slaves had learned to shoot muskets in African civil wars, while others would fight more effectively with the cane knives and axes they had learned to wield in the hot Louisiana sun.
In 1945 China emerged from the war nominally a great military power but was actually a nation economically prostrated and on the verge of all-out civil war.
The federal troops inside Fort Sumter were getting dangerously low on food. But any attempt to send more men or supplies would be seen as an act of war — civil war.
After the civil war1861-1865 as ice was used to refrigerate freight cars it also came into household use.
In the bedroom, I found a hand-sewn book containing an anthology of civil war poems.
Until the promotion of Ulysses S. Grant, the North’s victory in the civil war was held back by a series of inept generals—to the exasperation of Lincoln, who liked to read up on military strategy.
Leo Hollis's period is about not looking back. Having lived through the English civil wars, his men were suspicious of the extremes and intolerance of religious and intellectual authority.
If the civil war went on for a thousand years, you can bet your bottom dollar there'd be a thousand years of prosperity for the stockjobbing business!"
THE wanton violence during Sierra Leone's 11-year civil war was exceptionally barbaric.
Like other civil wars, the American revolution was marked by brutality on a sickening scale.
They said that if we were to fasten the corpses of those who died during the civil war it would reach from the south end of the country to the north.
West African countries have a history of drawing their neighbours into their civil wars and many now fear the Ivorian rot will spread with the refugees streaming out of the country.
Ethnic rioting in Kyrgyzstan between Kyrgyz and Uzbeks in the south of the country displaced hundreds of thousands and threatened to turn into a civil war.
In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow countrymen — and not in mine — is the great issue of civil war.
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