So part of our challenge is reconciling these two seemingly irreconcilable truths -- that war is sometimes necessary, and war is at some level an expression of human feelings.
Although Ethiopia and Eritrea are now engaged in a prolonged and sometimes savage war, the fighting, which at the moment consists mainly of border skirmishes, is far from the stricken area.
After all, those who constantly talk of war sometimes trigger it, accidentally or on purpose.
There is a cynical view that sometimes a small war can help in the middle of an election.
The 1998-2003 war in Congo is sometimes called Africa's World War as fighting and refugees crossed borders, destabilizing the region.
Mullen, do returning service people sometimes bring the war home with them?
In business, as in war, sometimes quick decisions are better than precise ones.
The extent to which the behaviour of European wartime leaders between 1939 and 1945 was coloured by their personal experiences in the first world war can sometimes be overplayed did Hitler really avoid gas warfare because he himself had once been the victim of gassing?
Every Administration has put its own spin on the two-war standard, sometimes repeatedly.
With the end of the cold war their interests sometimes coincide.
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The war veterans' leader is sometimes referred to as Hitler, the nom-de-guerre he is said to have adopted during the war of liberation that ended with Zimbabwean independence 20 years ago.
During the Cold War, India was sometimes seen as tilting toward the Soviet Union.
If a weapon goes off by accident, as they sometimes nearly did in the cold war's early years, who is to say that enemies will not be blamed and bombed.
But the episode has drawn attention to the ways in which the United States, omnipotent though it may superficially seem in the post-cold-war age, is sometimes in fact quite weak.
New Labour's massive majorities in 1997 and 2002 came not from focus groups and presentational brilliance but substance - from a long line of revisionism and modernisation that started in the post-war period and continued sometimes strong, often weak, until Tony Blair and Gordon Brown finally re-invented progressive politics in Britain in the mid-1990's.
And John Kerry believes that in a dangerous world, war must be an option sometimes, but it should never be the first option.
" Added Majid Malik, Pakistan's minister for Kashmir affairs: "It is not a declaration of war by India, but sometimes when you start firing and shelling on this scale things get out of hand.
Sometimes he stays up painting figurines for fantasy war games.
The Centre also helps coordinate the efforts of international bodies and agencies involved in rebuilding Afghanistan's communications infrastructure, which has been badly hit (and sometimes destroyed) by so many years of war.
For the first few weeks after the landings, casualty rates sometimes matched those of the Western Front in World War I (or of the German-Soviet fighting).
And I think the mistake we make sometimes, especially after the end of the Cold War, is to believe that the only thing that matters are economics, that all people care about is how well they're doing in their pocketbook and how comfortable they are.
Britain played a sometimes confusing game here, going back to the earlier Japanese war with the Russian czar.
The atrocity against Shahnaz -- murdered only 200 meters from the all-girls school where she taught in Khyber tribal district -- is a stark reminder of the continuation of the threats, intimidation, shootings, arson attacks and sometimes even murder that are the Taliban's weapons of a war against girls' opportunity.
What made intervention in Sierra Leone so urgent was the sheer savagery of the war there, and the sense of common humanity that can sometimes prompt other countries to act.
It's not like after the Gulf War, a conventional war, where you have a ticker tape parade, and sometimes the measures of effectiveness are just the absence of acts by your opponent.
Botros fought a bitter war with the much more traditional Catholic school across the way, sometimes winning battles.
Smart, funny, fearless and brazen, he's the go-to kid in Bahman Ghobadi's "Turtles Can Fly, " a film of sometimes hallucinatory power set in Iraqi Kurdistan on the eve of the second Iraq war.
Growing up, Briganti said, he had sometimes considered joining the military, following in the footsteps of his father, a World War II veteran.
Do the movie's sometimes far-fetched developments (charitable prostitutes, a twister) trivialize the plight of real war veterans?
Women in war-torn societies can face specific and devastating forms of sexual violence, which are sometimes deployed systematically to achieve military or political objectives.
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