Greek War of Independence Greek War of Independence was a successful war waged by the Greeks to win independence for Greece from the Ottoman Empire.

As a result, a kind of war of attrition is now being waged over the US budget.

Catherine successfully waged war against the decaying Ottoman Empire and advanced Russia's southern boundary to the Black Sea.

After the early 20th century revolutions, shifting alliances of China's regional warlords waged war for control of the Beijing government.

In the subsequent eight year civil war, waged with appalling brutality by both sides, up to 200,000 people lost their lives.

The camp is home to 450,000 refugees, most of which have fled drought and a civil war in Somalia waged since 1991.

Without healing the wounds of the past? How can peace exist when a silent, brutal, cold, war is being waged every day?

If, as some people believed, the war in Iraq was illegal, then the same was true of the war of occupation that Morocco had waged in the Sahara since 1975.

In northern Uganda, the horrific war waged for the last 18 years by the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) has targeted civilians, especially children.

The Bush administration says that the detainees are enemy combatants in the global war against terror a war that is being waged around the world, and that could last for decades.

The battle being waged in America today to restore these values is one that has been waged repeatedly around the world.

By its very nature, war creates innocent victims, and this even more likely when it is waged against terrorists, because terrorists tend to keep their whereabouts hidden.

More recently, Meles coordinated efforts with Kenya to stage limited strikes against the al Shabaab militia, which has waged an unrelenting war to turn Somalia into a fundamentalist Islamic theocracy.

During the heyday of Irish terrorism in the UK, successive British governments went out of their way not to concede to the IRA the notion that a war was being waged.

On the contrary, an endless war waged against an unseen enemy is doing great damage not only to our authority and prestige in the world, but also to our own society.

Sir John Blount was a loyal, if unremarkable, servant to the English Royal family, who accompanied King Henry to France in 1513 when he waged war against Louis XII of France.

For two years, police have waged an intense campaign against women and young people.

In the second case, the new government s war of words and policies will be waged not just with the German government in Berlin and the ECB in Frankfurt, but also against minority and immigrant groups at home.

In July, Pakistani and Indian soldiers waged a 12 hour gun battle across disputed border.

The Government had waged an intensive campaign through care, treatment and prevention, awareness raising and education.

Ideological battles are often waged with women s bodies as their emblems, and Western Islamophobia is no exception.

In the Mediterranean, the French Navy waged a naval campaign during a 1798 French invasion of Egypt.

In practice, the blockade policy amounts to an actual economic war waged by the United States against my country for more than 40 years without any limits, whether ethical, moral or related to State obligations under international law governed by the United Nations.

The Bush administration says that the detainees are enemy combatants in the global war against terror a war that is being waged around the world, and that could last for decades. The commander of the Guantánamo task force, Rear Admiral Harry B. Harris, Jr., recently defended harsh treatment of his prisoners, claiming, They re all terrorists they re all enemy combatants.

They were important allies of the Byzantine Empire, and waged a series of successful wars against the Arab Caliphates.

The contest is being waged institutionally in organizations like the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) and daily in countries like Syria.

Two millennia ago, the Greek sage Aristotle wisely observed that all wars were waged for the sake of getting money.

It took some time for Kobane's struggle to reach activists around the world. While the global media has focused on the US led coalition striking ISIS positions, Kurds have waged a war against ISIS on the ground that's gone largely under reported and often ignored completely.

One of them was the participation of tens of thousands of Puerto Rican soldiers in wars waged by the United States.

I would like to emphasize that defamation campaigns are still being waged and have even intensified against Muslims and Islam itself.

To be sure , if they are banished , they will not go with them and if war is waged against them , they will not aid them and even if they provide any aid to them , they will still turn their backs , and thereafter no aid will be forthcoming to them .

To be sure , if they are banished , they will not go with them and if war is waged against them , they will not aid them and even if they provide any aid to them , they will still turn their backs , and thereafter no aid will be forthcoming to them .

NEW YORK Campaigns, be they political or military, are waged to be won, and the current American presidential campaign is no exception.

Minutes later, a full offensive was waged on the protesters, pushing them away from the cabinet and clearing and burning Tahrir Square.

Thereafter your Lord will indeed be forgiving and merciful to those who migrated after they were persecuted , waged jihad and remained steadfast .

Dam opponents, including vocal indigenous environmental groups, have waged a seemingly successful battle to protect Tiger Leaping Gorge and the Salween (the Nu River).

The fight against climate change will be waged in large part over whether Africa s energy needs are met with fossil fuels or renewable energies.

On the contrary, it is a significant window into the arena in which the conflict over the future of Iran's nuclear program is being waged.

We have seen wars of extermination like the one that Hitler and the Nazis waged against not just Jews and Gypsies, but Poles and Russians.

BERLIN The United States has waged three wars since Al Qaeda s terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001 against Al Qaeda, in Afghanistan, and in Iraq.

On Friday, December the 25, Tunisian bloggers waged the White Note Campaign to protest against censorship, which is growing to a tremendous extent in Tunisia.

In fact it was the Pisan army that broke the pact with Amalfi by attacking the coastal city on 4 August 1135 during the war waged by Pope Innocent II and the new emperor Lothar II (aided by the republics of Genoa and Pisa) against the Norman Roger II of Sicily, who controlled Amalfi.

Pierce waged a long battle with pancreatic cancer, which he lost on February 24, 1991, and was buried in the Woodlawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Nashville.

Regardless of its effectiveness, the armed struggle waged by the PLO did empower the Palestinians and internalize a sense of collective dignity and self respect within them.

The campaigns that the West waged throughout the 1980 s in solidarity with democratic forces in Soviet dominated Eastern Europe helped bring about the end of communist domination.