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long and civil
The 26-year long civil war has ravaged the country's political and social institutions.
However, full civil equality was obtained only when they received the formal rights of citizenship, which had long been withheld from them in their own communities of Endingen and Lengnau.
The political landscape of Burundi has been dominated in recent years by the civil war and a long peace process and move to democracy.
Scotland is often said to use the civil law system but it has a unique system that combines elements of an uncodified civil law dating back to the Corpus Juris Civilis with an element of common law long predating the Treaty of Union with England in 1707 ( see Legal institutions of Scotland in the High Middle Ages ).
A long civil war erupted between the Staufen also known as Hohenstaufen supporters and the heirs of Lothar III.
The long civil war over investiture sapped the energy of both German churchmen and intellectuals.
However, the combined effects of ethnic and religious fractionalization, i. e. the more chance that any two randomly chosen people will be from separate ethnic or religious groups the less chance of a civil war, were also significant and positive, as long as the country avoided ethnic dominance.
More states also meant more states in which to have long civil wars.
Using a separate statistical evaluation than used above for interventions, civil wars that included pro-or anti-communist forces lasted 141 % longer than the average non-Cold War conflict, while a Cold War civil war that attracted superpower intervention resulted in wars typically lasting over three times as long as other civil wars.
For example, for a long period it was assumed that Imperial China had no system of civil law because the law codes did not have explicit provisions for civil lawsuits.
The civil sanction for contempt ( which is typically incarceration in the custody of the sheriff or similar court officer ) is limited in its imposition for so long as the disobedience to the court's order continues: once the party complies with the court's order, the sanction is lifted.
Marriage is a divine institution that can never be broken, even if the husband or wife legally divorce in the civil courts ; as long as they are both alive, the Church considers them bound together by God.
In certain areas of the law another head of damages has long been available, whereby the defendant is made to give up the profits made through the civil wrong in restitution.
As such Egypt was not directly involved in the Sudan Peace Process that was hosted in Kenya under the auspices of IGAD and that gave the peoples of south Sudan the right to secede and form an independent state in 2001 after the long and brutal Sudanese civil war that cumulatively lasted more than 40 years and claimed over 2 million lives.
A license typically allows the holder to carry one handgun, in some cases a long gun, and residents in certain settlements such as the West Bank are issued firearms by the government and given civil defense training.
In 2000 Guinea became embroiled in the instability which had long blighted the rest of West Africa as rebels crossed the borders with Liberia and Sierra Leone and it seemed for a time that the country was headed for civil war.
* Category 4: Civil firearms ; According to French law, a civil firearm is a semi automatic long gun with more of 2 rounds in magazine which don't use a military gauge, or a handgun ( pistol or revolver, including all magazine capacities ) which doesn't have a gauge used by the army.
A long civil war began ; Philip was about to win when he was murdered by the Bavarian count palatine Otto VIII of Wittelsbach in 1208.
France was struck by a long period of civil unrest in 2005 after the death of two teenagers.
Its position on the estuaries of the Stour and Orwell rivers and its usefulness to mariners as the only safe anchorage between the Thames and Humber led to a long period of maritime significance, both civil and military.
* 1970 – Qaboos bin Said al Said becomes Sultan of Oman after overthrowing his father, Said bin Taimur initiating massive reforms ; modernization programs and end to a decade long civil war.

long and war
After the war began, he long refused to permit emancipation of the slaves by Union action even in the Border States that stayed with the Union.
Whether any of us remain in it long will depend on what happens as a result of the technological and economic revolutions now going on in the countries of Asia and Africa, and also of course on how long the cold war remains cold.
But his concentration on personalities and his categorical assessment of their actions fail to convey the political complexities of a long generation harassed by world-wide war and confronted with the problem of adjustment to an unprecedented industrial and social transformation.
Evidently the war drum beating and hysteria so painstakingly being stirred up in the West have been planned long in advance.
Private George Gray Hunter of Pennsylvania wrote: `` I am well convinced in my own mind that had it not been for officers this war would have ended long ago ''.
The fear of war can make us either too weak to stand and too willing to compromise, or too reckless and too nervous to negotiate for peace as long as there is any chance to negotiate.
Not until long after the war -- 1950, in fact -- did they get a hint of the reason.
Believing that without Christian wisdom there can be neither prosperity nor success in war, Alfred aimed " to set to learning ( as long as they are not useful for some other employment ) all the free-born young men now in England who have the means to apply themselves to it.
In 1329, he began a long war with the Republic of Genoa.
He says, " It is of the vilest baseness to use horses in the war ," when the group hears several wounded horses writhe and scream for a long time before dying during a bombardment.
He also has a " shooting license ," certifying him as sporadically not responsible for his actions due to a head wound, though he is clearly quite sane and exploiting his license so he can stay in the hospital and away from the war as long as possible.
Abatisses are used in war to keep the approaching enemy under fire for as long as possible.
In 1693 Morosini resumed command, but his only acts were to refortify the castle of Aegina, which he had demolished during the Cretan war in 1655, the cost of upkeep being paid as long as the war lasted, by the Athenians, and to place it and Salamis under Malipiero as Governor.
In 736, the Aquitanian duke Hunald led a rebellion after his father Eudes's death, at which Charles responded by sending an expedition that captured and plundered Bordeaux again, while the Frankish commander didn't retain it for long, since he left south-east to wage war in Narbonnaise.
After a long war Ishbaal is murdered hoping for reward from David, but David has them killed for killing God's anointed.
The book ’ s argument is that Germany is not prepared economically for a long war but might win a lightning war.
Frieser argues that the OKW had intended to avoid the decisive battle concepts of its predecessors and planned for a long all out war of attrition.
Milward argued the German Reich could not fight a long war, so it deliberately refrained from arming in depth, to arming in breadth, to enable it to win a series of quick victories.
It was their fear of the spectre of 1914 that emerged victorious in the conflict of goals between armament in breadth for a short war and armament in depth for a feared long war.

long and recurrent
Dr. Gartzke, of Columbia University states, " Scholars like Montesquieu, Adam Smith, Richard Cobden, Norman Angell, and Richard Rosecrance have long speculated that free markets have the potential to free states from the looming prospect of recurrent warfare.
Epilepsy is characterized by a long term risk of recurrent seizures.
In spite of long recurrent droughts and occasional torrential rains, the grasslands of the Great Plains are not subject to great soil erosion.
For a long time Tippett had to face a recurrent charge: that his music was amateurish, over-complicated and even unplayable.
These large institutional investors need to protect the long-term value of their investments from inflationary debasement of currency and market fluctuations, and provide recurrent cash flows to pay for retiree benefits in the short-medium term: from that perspective, think-tanks such as the World Pensions Council ( WPC ) have argued that infrastructure is an ideal asset class that provides tangible advantages such as long duration ( facilitating cash flow matching with long-term liabilities ), protection against inflation and statistical diversification ( low correlation with ‘ traditional ’ listed assets such as equity and fixed income investments ), thus reducing overall portfolio volatility.
The alap in dhrupad is sung using a set of syllables, popularly thought to be derived from a mantra, in a recurrent, set pattern: a re ne na, té te re ne na, ri re re ne na, te ne toom ne ( this last group is used in the end of a long phrase ).
The recurrent format of Sid's adventures is that he believes he has found a new approach to women that will secure him a sexual conquest at long last (' This time ... this time!
The goal was to track the most stable, pervasive, and recurrent images in network television content, in terms of the portrayal of violence, gender roles, race and ethnicity, occupations, and many other topics and aspects of life, over long periods of time.
Small chromosomal abnormalities also frequently lead to congenital heart disease, and examples include microdeletion of the long arm of chromosome 22 ( 22q11, DiGeorge syndrome ), the long arm of chromosome 1 ( 1q21 ), the short arm of chromosome 8 ( 8p23 ) and many other, less recurrent regions of the genome, as shown by high resolution genome-wide screening ( Array comparative genomic hybridization ).
Other clinical features include a high-pitched voice ; distinct facial features, such as a long, narrow face, micrognathism, and prominent nose and ears ; pigmentation changes of the skin including hypo-and hyper-pigmented areas and cafe-au-lait spots ; telangiectasias ( dilated blood vessels ) which can appear on the skin but also in the eyes ; moderate immune deficiency, characterized by deficiency in certain immunoglobulin classes, that apparently leads to recurrent pneumonia and ear infections ; hypogonadism characterized by a failure to produce sperm, hence infertility in males, and premature cessation of menses ( premature menopause ), hence sub-fertility in females.
There has been an approximately decade long cycle of recurrent droughts in this part of east Africa since earlier in the 20th century and by the late 1970s signs of intensifying drought began to appear.
The Romans had long contended against opponents who fielded heavy cavalry, notably the Sarmatians and the Parthians, and the recurrent wars with the Sassanids were an important factor in the Roman turn to new military organizations and battlefield tactics that centered around the use of heavy cavalry in the 3rd and 4th centuries.

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