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How to use strife in a sentence

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Internal strife within the ecumene has desperately weakened Forerunner defenses.
Fifty-five years of rule under the national bourgeoisie has created a cauldron of ethnic and communal strife, poverty and illiteracy.
Many Iraqis hope that it will head off sectarian strife and even civil war.
Obviously, to share a resource like water was to invite conflict and strife.
By our very nature, we are selfish, jealous, envious, stricken with strife, and sometimes downright rebellious.
Thus the trouble and strife would walk down the apples and pears and along the frog and toad to use the public dog and bone.
The press charged that the statement contained the same poisons that ignite sectarian strife.
Elected chancellor of the loose union of representatives of the worlds, she played the role of benevolent manager in times of strife.
All over the world human strife arises from these sources, escalating into violence, bringing death and scattering ruin.
The various stories thematize issues of colorism, marital betrayal, family strife, and poverty.
For years it was the lot of the put-upon husband to bemoan the domestic strife caused by the family battleaxe.
But his later years have been a miasma of money troubles, marital strife and ill health.
My only regret is leaving my beloved wife and my son unprotected in the midst of the wretched strife that ails our realm.
In the face of strife and disease, Africans are leading the search for shalom.
Yoritomo's kamakura shogunate was replaced in 1333 by the Ashikaga shogunate, but its rule was one of prolonged civil strife.
Given the history of countries that have wallowed in civil strife, things will never be the same in Ivory Coast.
The ethnic and religious strife is really a matter of an uneven distribution of economic resources and opportunities.
Euro 1992 was a flop for Germany, and at USA '94 a team torn apart by internal strife were disastrously eliminated by unfancied Bulgaria.
In the capital, people celebrated their impending nationhood after decades of struggle and strife.
This rivalry had involved civil wars, peasant uprisings, and religious strife of every description.
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He had forgotten the calm and tranquil region that stretched beyond the moil and anguish of the strife for gain.
The one great enjoyment of all who dwell in Walhalla was combat and strife.
The military triumph of the rack-renter or the whiteboy would be the happiest issue of the strife.
The earlier phases are crude and animalistic, and involve much resort to physical strife.
A thousand times over I was duped by dreams of an archangelic fusion of the opposing forces in the great strife of ideas.
In it we do not know the evil passions which ambition and strife are said to arouse.
Here he found a most congenial orbit, for his tastes were aversive to the rough and tumble of political strife.
The strife still continued within and without the barbacan, and ended without much advantage on either side.
Grettir said he would not be the first to raise strife with any man, and so much the less as the bonder's will was such.
For now no sky overhung him, no human agency opposed him, no counterplay of stress and strife thrilled his blood.
How can I myself alone bear your cumbrance, and your burden, and your strife?
Shall Duryodhan like a recreant now avoid the deathful strife, After all his bravest warriors have in war surrendered life?
Sir Volmor came home from the red field of strife, Then tidings assailed him, with dolour so rife.
The Seljuk princes were too much absorbed by internal strife to concentrate against the new assailants.
In the year 1881, a new plan was devised by the Government to enkindle strife in respect to the Maoris.
But ill-defined borders have been everywhere and everywhen the fruitful source of strife, destruction, and misery.
And how can one foresee strife at the first turn of the road on which they have just fraternally entered hand in hand?
Nor could any augury be made as to the final issue of this fratricidal strife.
He would be cagey enough to stay ignorant of any overt strife or any other skullduggery that could be laid at his door.
The real effect of sortition was to equalize the chances of rich and poor without civil strife.
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