He carried out a protracted war of national liberation.

They were aimed at improving Germany's ability to survive a long, protracted war in the West.

The Egyptian army was also engaged heavily in the protracted North Yemen Civil War, and the brief Libyan Egyptian War in July 1977.

But none of the reserves could be exploited until 1988, when Chad s protracted civil war finally ended.

Burundi had recently emerged from a protracted period of civil war, but recent elections had given the country democratic institutions.

Protracted situations

The peace plan for Cambodia in the early 1990 s, for example, dragged the country back from hellish decades of horrifying genocide and ugly and protracted civil war.

The French Air Force participated in several protracted colonial wars in Africa and Indochina after the Second World War, and continues to employ its air power in Africa.

In situations where, because of the protracted experience of war, national institutions have been weakened, the rejuvenation of those institutions should be a priority for all international partners.

Everything about the man was, indeed, protracted.

We cannot afford to leave the region s protracted conflicts such as the ones in Nagorno Karabakh and Transnistria on the back burner, as last year s war in Georgia made abundantly clear.

Nor is it improbable that a protracted war in Libya would end by vindicating the warning of the region s authoritarian rulers that the Arab Awakening is but a prelude to chaos.

Moreover, it is likely to be a protracted performance.

Particularly troubling is France's protracted incarceration of pre trial suspects.

Yet high and protracted unemployment plagues many less skilled workers.

They should include more peacebuilding activities, particularly during protracted conflicts.

Many protracted situations remain, with little prospect of early solutions.

Many protracted situations remain, with little prospect of early solutions.

Gains in inflation adjusted personal consumption expenditure have averaged a mere 0.8 over the past five years the most severe and protracted slowdown in consumer demand growth in the post World War II era.

The result of protracted US weakness is also a weaker Europe.

The same applies to the protracted negotiations between developed and developing nations.

They have also accumulated large protracted arrears with the international financial institutions.

Owing to the protracted civil war, a dearth of economic development, and the absence of vocational schooling in southern Sudan, there is a critical shortage of skilled labour, especially in the construction, building, automotive and communications trades.

Microsoft s advantage, and its business model, goes back to another protracted legal struggle.

Future efforts will focus on situation specific approaches, notably for protracted refugee situations.

He died of pneumonia in Paris on 6 March 1950 after a protracted illness.

Those protracted conflict situations are terrible problems for the regions in which they linger.

As I observed in my last report, however, the protracted stalemate is inherently destabilizing.

That is by far the most protracted period of weakness in real US consumer demand since the end of World War II and a massive slowdown from the pre crisis pace of 3.6 annual real consumption growth from 1996 to 2007.

That means paying down debt and rebuilding savings, leaving consumer demand mired in protracted weakness.

New Zealand was not prepared to continue the protracted and inconclusive process for another decade.

Protracted check ins and check outs reduce the effective stay of UNMOs in the field.

But currency swings, if too wide and protracted, can hurt competitiveness and require costly resource allocation.

Following protracted development, blue laser diodes operating at 405 nanometers became available on a production basis.

Protracted civil conflicts have provoked some of the largest occurrences of forced displacement in recent times.

In 2004, some two thirds of the global refugee population remained in limbo in protracted situations.

He withstood a series of protracted sieges in Amman (1970), Beirut (1982), and in Ramallah (2002 2004).

All of this, according to Reinhart and Rogoff, involves a protracted and pronounced contraction in economic activity.

Fortunately, an L shaped period of protracted economic stagnation Japan s experience in the 1990 s is unlikely.

Protracted refugee situations, which had lasted for more than five years, were a different type of obstacle.

Strikes were not illegal although a protracted procedure of mediation and reconciliation had to be exhausted first.

Advanced economies will face sluggish (call it 2 ) growth and persistently high, increasingly structural (and therefore protracted) unemployment.

World monetary conditions seem to point to a protracted period of high liquidity and low international interest rates.

People without income or security fall prey to crime and violence, and often get trapped in protracted conflict.

The protracted nature of the conflict and lack of active hostilities meant that international attention had also faded.