"It is a long war of attrition with no end in sight, " wrote Gerges.
But overall, it concludes, we are still in the first phase of a potentially long war.
But I believe that in a long war it is Microsoft that will win.
The skirmish is the latest in the Catalans' long war to defend their language.
But a long war (or a longer phoney war) could undermine growth and asset prices.
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Indeed, the demand for ships and munitions, created by the long war against France, boosted British industry.
And yet, as in all counterinsurgencies, the qualitative observations of this long war tell a different story.
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The existing 20, 000-strong UN peacekeeping force has been widely criticised as ineffective in ending the two-decade long war.
The suit against Fuji is the latest in a decades-long war between the companies dating to the early 1980s.
Facing a long war on its north-western border, it cannot keep up its decades-old readiness on the eastern one.
On the other, Mr. Musharraf has been a respectable, if albeit far from perfect, ally in the aptly-named long war.
And next year, this long war will come to a responsible end.
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In other words, fiscal conservatives, libertarians, and Tea Partiers have won an important battle, but this is just one skirmish in a long war.
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Eritrea emerged from its long war of independence in 1993 only to plunge once again into military conflict, first with Yemen and then with Ethiopia.
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There appear to be no good options in Syria and, like most Americans, NATO countries have grown very weary of the long war in Afghanistan.
The long war in Iraq is finally coming to an end.
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The IRS waged a decades-long war with those denying its authority.
In just a few weeks, the long war in Iraq will finally come to an end. (Applause.) Our transition in Afghanistan is moving forward.
Overall, we think that the company is rightly focusing on protecting its turf, and prepping for what could be a long war for market share in China.
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It has been a long war, and the American public has understandably lost interest, but these soldiers have not lost their devotion to the mission or their country.
Whether the report presages a victory so resounding that it ends the long war, or just another inconclusive skirmish, now depends on the 100 battle-hardened warriors of the Senate.
Then, last year, the Eritreans had a setback on the battlefield which made them realise that their huge neighbour was far better able than they to sustain a long war.
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Margaret Thatcher waged a long war against local government.
More probable is a long war of attrition with the Rwandan army suppressing the rebels but never defeating them, as long as they can hide in the mountains and forests of Eastern Congo.
However, Benjamin Wittes, a senior fellow in Governance Studies at The Brookings Institution and author of Law and the Long War: The Future of Justice in the Age of Terror, has some reservations.
This has been suspended for the past year, principally because the Irish Republican Army (IRA) refused to announce a definitive end to its long war against British rule in Northern Ireland (see table below).
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