The war between the United States and Spain in eighteen ninety-eight was one of the shortest in American history.

VOA: special.2010.07.29

Every polity seeks its own advantage against others, making relations between states a condition of unremitting war of all against all.

每一个政体都在追寻自身的利益,而非他者，国家间的联盟,是一种全面战争的条件，持续性的永恒对抗。

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It was the Civil War between the Union and the rebel southern states.

VOA: special.2010.07.25

This,he said,would lead to war between the slave-holding and free states.

VOA: special.2009.03.19

He wanted to win the war between the states.

VOA: special.2009.12.10

A veteran of the Civil War between the states, he's seen more than his share of killing;

VOA: standard.2010.06.20

It had largely moved out of Spanish-owned Cuba because of tensions that would eventually lead to war between Spain and the United States.

VOA: standard.2010.04.15

His aim is to ease decades of tensions between Muslims and the United States tensions heightened by the war in Iraq and lack of progress in the Israeli-Palestinian peace process.

VOA: standard.2009.06.03

But the end of World War II signaled the beginning of the Cold War between the United States and Russia in which CIA pilot Francis Gary Powers played a central role.

VOA: standard.2010.05.07

Instead,his goal will be to ease tensions between the United States and the world's Muslims tensions intensified by the Iraq war and a lack of progress in the Middle East peace process.

VOA: standard.2009.06.02

Mr.Obama,a day after brokering the first face-to-face meeting between Israeli and Palestinian leaders since the Gaza war late last year, said the United States will continue its pursuit of a two state solution to the Middle East conflict.

VOA: standard.2009.09.23