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- adjective dominated or obsessed by
strife .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates has proposed a major overhaul of the way the Pentagon and State Department do nation-building, seeking to end friction between the bureaucracies by putting them jointly in charge of three huge new funds aimed at stabilizing strife-ridden countries.
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Chicago is big-city big and diverse; small-town in feel, yet important on the American and world stages; strife-ridden, but eternally optimistic in a peculiarly American way; and the American homeplace among our big cities in a way that New York and Los Angeles aren't.
Rebecca Sive: Mayor Daley Is Right: Being Mayor of Chicago Is the Best Job in the World Rebecca Sive 2010
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Thus, he says, the city is a center not only for Turkish stolen artifacts but also for items coming from strife-ridden areas across the Middle East.
Lucrative Antique Islamic Arts Market Draws Big Money, Criminals 2011
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The Overseas Private Investment Corporation provides loans, loan guarantees, political risk insurance and support for investment funds to Americans who invest in strife-ridden countries.
Maxwell Kennedy: Development That Works: OPIC Earns Money for the Treasury While Funding Development Throughout the World Maxwell Kennedy 2012
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Chicago is big-city big and diverse; small-town in feel, yet important on the American and world stages; strife-ridden, but eternally optimistic in a peculiarly American way; and the American homeplace among our big cities in a way that New York and Los Angeles aren't.
Rebecca Sive: Mayor Daley Is Right: Being Mayor of Chicago Is the Best Job in the World Rebecca Sive 2010
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Thus, he says, the city is a center not only for Turkish stolen artifacts but also for items coming from strife-ridden areas across the Middle East.
Lucrative Antique Islamic Arts Market Draws Big Money, Criminals 2011
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Thus, he says, the city is a center not only for Turkish stolen artifacts but also for items coming from strife-ridden areas across the Middle East.
Lucrative Antique Islamic Arts Market Draws Big Money, Criminals 2011
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The school is such a strife-ridden place that all of the other girls have transferred out, leaving Souka swimming alone in a sea of testosterone and goofy gang violence.
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Thus, he says, the city is a center not only for Turkish stolen artifacts but also for items coming from strife-ridden areas across the Middle East.
Lucrative Antique Islamic Arts Market Draws Big Money, Criminals 2011
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Chicago is big-city big and diverse; small-town in feel, yet important on the American and world stages; strife-ridden, but eternally optimistic in a peculiarly American way; and the American homeplace among our big cities in a way that New York and Los Angeles aren't.
Rebecca Sive: Mayor Daley Is Right: Being Mayor of Chicago Is the Best Job in the World Rebecca Sive 2010
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