civil strife

collocation in English

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civil
adjective
uk
/ˈsɪv.əl/us
/ˈsɪv.əl/
not military or religious, or relating to the ordinary people of ...
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strife
noun[U]
uk
/straɪf/us
/straɪf/
violent or ...
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(Definition ofcivilandstrifefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Both countries are emerging, to varying degrees, from years ofcivilstrifeand economic decline (or collapse).
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Why do some societies achieve ongoing political stability while others suffer recurrent bouts of repression,civilstrifeand outright revolts?
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Religious disputes, for example, might factionalize the system and prevent disinterested deliberation or mutual accommodation in other areas, or even lead tocivilstrife.
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He believed that a strong sovereign was necessary to avoid the war andcivilstrifewhich results from bellicose human nature.
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Putting the politics back into '68 suggests that its legacy was more one ofcivilstrifethan of civil liberties.
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A latent danger of renewedcivilstrifewas always present.
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All of the eight cases experienced episodes of massive and prolongedcivilstrife.
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Moreover, repression andcivilstrifebecome more likely as the sovereign's payoff from transgressing and being challenged increases relative to the payoff of not transgressing at all.
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He also puts special emphasis on the issue ofcivilstrifeand international politics, of international processes of mediation, peacekeeping and armed intervention, this again within a comparative frame.
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Unfortunately, a ' lack of pluralism ' does not offer much of an explanation for either regional or nationalcivilstrife, or their uniqueness in time and place.
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Her thorough grounding in the literature of cultural anthropology, particularly the scholarship on honour, shame and vendetta helps to set the notional stage of factionalism andcivilstrife.
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But the demands for that humanitarian relief just grow and grow, particularly in the areas ofcivilstrife.
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All reasonable, sensible people wish our country to be harmonious, safe, happy and free fromcivilstrife.
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Therefore, it is very important that we should have every right to see that those communications are not interrupted bycivilstrife.
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You can easily cause people to talk about being threatened and stir upcivilstrife.
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When we discuss developing countries we normally do so in a situation of crisis such as famine,civilstrifeor full-scale war.
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Arising out of all delays has hung the spectre of a progressive decline in administration, and also the lamentable increase incivilstrife.
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Surely we have learnt something after 25 years of violence andcivilstrife.
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For that reason, whatever the decision may be, we can rely on it being carried out without any commotion, tension orcivilstrife.
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