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Some elements of the SDF have been more effective than others, and have even fought alongside the Kurds against ISIS.
He fought his terminal cancer for over 18 months, never complaining, always expressing optimism that the latest experimental treatment would work.
In the end, many who fought to bring about Austria-Hungary’s demise would live to mourn its passing; as subsequent events would show, the old empire was still more of a necessity than they realized.
Four wars – in Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Kosovo – had to be fought and a fifth one – in Macedonia – had to be prevented at the last minute by NATO and the EU in order to put violent Serb nationalism in its place.
From 2004 to 2010, the group fought six wars against the Yemeni government and even skirmished with Saudi Arabia.
In democratic countries, it is vital that democracy’s enemies be fought with democratic means.
But terrorism cannot be fought by the security authorities alone.
For much of the post-1945 period, these divisions disappeared as right and left fought battles for redistribution within national economies.
Ukrainians are being reminded of the consequences of this mindset right now – by a government that has slashed health benefits for the men who heroically fought to contain the Chernobyl disaster.
Before the war’s end, President Abraham Lincoln created a new narrative, declaring in the Gettysburg Address that it was fought for democracy as much as equality, with the goal of ensuring that “government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.”
Their supporters include activists of the Harkat-ul-Jihad-Al-Islami-Bangladesh, which has fought alongside the Taliban and Al Qaeda in Afghanistan.
Now a study of severely demented patients in Boston-area nursing homes shows that the “friend” is often being fought with antibiotics.
The locals who fought against ISIS, and who were made to disappear at its hands (including my brother Feras, abducted in July 2013), are still missing.
First, corruption takes many forms, so a war on corruption has to be fought on many fronts.
But adverse movements in the terms of trade must be accommodated; they cannot be fought with monetary policy.
Rift and MasteryPARIS – Like brothers in arms united in combat but divided in peace, Europe and the United States, which had fought depression jointly in 2009, started voicing disagreements in 2010 and begin 2011 with divergent positions on macroeconomic policy.
Wars are mostly fought with arms on battlefields between soldiers of opposing countries.
Abramson fought back assertively in a brief battle for public perception, with someone having leaked details of an $80,000-plus gap between her salary and that of her male predecessor in the same role.
They fought like gladiators in the world’s most competitive market, learned to develop sophisticated business models (such as Taobao’s freemium model), and built impregnable moats to protect their businesses (for example, Meituan-Dianping created an end-to-end food app, including delivery).
Only in the Czech Republic are elections nowadays fought between Western-style liberals and Western-style social democrats, with postcommunists (reformed or not) largely absent from the political scene.
Those who fought for democracy - whether here or in the West - believed they had a purpose.
Powell himself points out that, in Zimbabwe, many women fought for the country’s independence in the Rhodesian Bush War.
Garang fought for a united, secular, and democratic Sudan, a lofty dream that the Islamist regime in Khartoum admittedly has had no intention of implementing.
Israel last fought an interstate war in 1973, and the trauma of that fight still lingers.
Museveni believed that young fighters not only needed martial skills but also a political awareness of the cause for which they fought - an end to the greed and self-delusion of Africa's post-independence leadership.
For three years I fought alongside Tutsis, finally serving as personal aide to Paul Kagame, now Rwanda's president and his country's leading political and military strategist.
Though I had fought faithfully in Museveni's army as a child, I was now an adult and a critic, so he arrested me too.
This is why, until recently, wars could be justified only if they were fought in self-defense, or in defense of allied nations.
When Southeast Asia's colonial rulers were overthrown four decades ago, ethnic Chinese often shunned the nationalist movements that fought for independence.
Like millions of Americans, I was mesmerized by the collapse of a country where half-a-million American soldiers fought and 50,000 died.
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