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When in 1540 emperor Charles V deemed it necessary to take personal charge of crushing the rebellion in his native Ghent, and of fightings a fourth war with the French king 1542-1544, there were also some Italian war-lords amongst his retinue, Don Ferrante Gonzaga, for one, took advantage of a visit by the emperor and his sister Eleanora who was ill in Mons, to take the young Orlandus Lassus in his service.
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Taliban control of that region meant negotiating with only one party, paying excise, transport, etc. tax to only one group; the alternative of dealing with several war-lords whose fiefdoms would have encompassed the length of the highway was untenable.
U.S. Releases Video of Pakistan Airstrike - The Lede Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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The Kurds don't want it and neither the Shiites or Sunnis are powerful enough to control the war-lords and Mullahs.
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He's particularly careful with the war-lords who run many of the biggest opium-growing provinces.
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Whether it is slumlords who are resistant to housing or land developments, migrants resisting the upgrading of hostels into family quarters, taxi owners resisting regulation and trying to corner lucrative routes for themselves, criminals resisting better measures for safety and security or war-lords and gun smugglers who are resistant to peace itself.
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The revolution of 1912 that overthrew the Qing dynasty gave way to turbulent decades in which southern China was the terrain of battles among nationalists, communists, and war-lords of varying allegiance.
The Commanding Heights DANIEL YERGIN 1998
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The revolution of 1912 that overthrew the Qing dynasty gave way to turbulent decades in which southern China was the terrain of battles among nationalists, communists, and war-lords of varying allegiance.
THE COMMANDING HEIGHTS DANIEL YERGIN 1998
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The ANC, and the public remain concerned about the role of the police in bringing to justice the IFP war-lords who spill the blood of our people to achieve their political goals.
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Instead of democracy, the Chinese got 38 years of war-lords and civil war and an eight-year war with Japan as well.
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Instead of democracy, the Chinese got 38 years of war-lords and civil war and an eight-year war with Japan as well.
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