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For six weeks, the King lay in a hospital fighting death, something he has done, in reality, ever since he suffered a massive stroke 10 years ago.
To be successful, a strategy of fighting climate change must be not only fair, but also effective.
Similarly, Chad’s soldiers fought alongside French troops against terrorists in Mali, and now they have coalesced with those of Nigeria and Cameroon in fighting Boko Haram.
Finally, the risk that fighting terrorism poses to civil liberties is especially acute in Africa, where institution building is still an ongoing process.
But to respond by fighting inflation inside the US would be grossly inappropriate – both much more painful for US consumers and pointless.
But the price has been high in terms of Iraqi lives lost in sectarian fighting.
After the fighting was over, Israel controlled all of the West Bank, Gaza, and Jerusalem, in addition to the Sinai Peninsula and the Golan Heights.
Part of what made the war in Bosnia so complicated for the international community was the problem of assessing how much of the fighting could be attributed to tensions among Bosnian Croats, Serbs, and Muslims, and how much of the violence was caused by Serbia’s intervention.
Are they serious about fighting climate change and defending the future of the planet?
In practice, however, delivering aid has been extremely difficult, owing to ongoing fighting and bureaucratic obstacles put in place by the Syrian government.
It is now clear that China is attempting to use psychological warfare (“psywar”) to advance its strategic objectives – to “win without fighting,” as the ancient Chinese military theorist Sun Tzu recommended.
In drawing these lines, diplomats focused on preventing Europeans from fighting one another on African territory, not on local geographic, cultural, or political conditions.
Sun’s core belief is that the “ultimate excellence lies not in winning every battle but in defeating the enemy without ever fighting.”
Nor would they like the 1.5 million people displaced by the fighting to other parts of the country to be able to cast ballots.
At a time when politics threatens to undermine cooperative action on the environment, fighting for our shared global environment is more important than ever.
The secular government, supported by the UN, the European Union, and the United States, with military reinforcements from Ethiopia, has been fighting insurgents from the Union of Islamic Courts, a group accused of harboring al-Qaeda terrorists whose leaders are supported by Eritrea.
The two main factions fighting in Mogadishu are backed, respectively, by Ethiopia and Eritrea.
Indigenous, African-American, and mestizo (mixed) communities have been fighting for their social, political, and economic rights ever since.
Such a policy would put US private saving to important use in fighting global poverty, while strengthening the US industrial base.
And, for every celebrity who donates time to fighting obesity, there are a dozen who accept large payments to hawk products, such as ultra-sugary drinks, that are arguably the tobacco of our generation.
Our enemies have skillfully adapted to fighting wars in the media age, but for the most part we have not.”
It is now obvious that overwhelming numbers don't provide an advantage in fighting terrorism, because it is the terrorists who have the initiative.
But fighting terrorists requires an entirely different kind of spying from "uncovering" traditional "spies," or neutralizing unpopular oligarchs such as Mikhail Khodorkovsky.
They are useless at fighting today's new terrorist enemy.
Another recent case of an Indian woman fighting back shows how transformational this spirit of resistance can be.
The post-Sykes-Picot order will be the result of fighting in the coming years between regional powers – first and foremost Iran and Saudi Arabia – and their religiously motivated auxiliaries, such as the Shia Hezbollah or the Sunni Islamic State.
Scientists have been forced to expend valuable time and effort refuting the black-hole claims, while fighting the ongoing lawsuits aimed at preventing the LHC from operating has cost millions of dollars.
For France, lifting the embargo is also an important symbol, one that recognizes China’s role in fighting Islamist terrorism.
The Shia of the Mahdi Army defeated Iraq’s Sunnis in the last bout of fighting, and thousands of Iraqi Sunnis, under the so-called Awakening Movement, have rallied to the side of the United States forces and have fought against Al Qaeda.
In Yemen, a Saudi-led coalition has used airstrikes to beat back the Houthis, Iran-backed Zaidi Shia rebels fighting the Sunni-led government – a conflict that has already claimed some 6,000 lives.
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