noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
civil disturbances/strife (= civil unrest )
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Troops have been called in to deal with civil disturbances.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
civil
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Ethically, it is impossible to redistribute income intentionally in a developing country to see if civil strife erupts.
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After a week of civil strife , Jerusalem itself was captured by the rebels.
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For a considerable part of the intervening period there was recurrent civil strife between magnate and dynastic factions.
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They blamed the republic's nationalistic coalition government for the slide into civil strife .
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But there were present all the ingredients of stasis, civil strife .
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His final model of civil strife is depicted in Figure 5.1.
ethnic
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Meanwhile, political and ethnic strife in Bosnia have steadily mounted in the run-up to nationwide elections there on September 14.
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Its people are overburdened by religious riot, ethnic strife , corruption and the absence of social infrastructure.
industrial
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Class consciousness must be encouraged through industrial strife .
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It has also been depicted in its formative period of development as the site of bitter industrial strife .
internal
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We had all the usual internal strife , including leadership problems, and the difficulties of working with volunteers.
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The Bush administration was also remarkably free of internal strife , at least until its reelection effort faltered.
political
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Economic development since independence was severely handicapped by sabotage and political strife .
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Meanwhile, political and ethnic strife in Bosnia have steadily mounted in the run-up to nationwide elections there on September 14.
■ VERB
tear
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They were not torn by the strife and dissension produced by sectarianism seen in so many other places at that time.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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eight years of ethnic strife
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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All current affairs in the whole world of lamentable war and strife needed to be weighed in this balance.
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If pushed too hard at this critical moment he could impose emergency rule and provoke far greater strife .
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Its people are overburdened by religious riot, ethnic strife , corruption and the absence of social infrastructure.
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Meanwhile, political and ethnic strife in Bosnia have steadily mounted in the run-up to nationwide elections there on September 14.
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The Rockefeller episode vividly demonstrates the Republican appetite for strife .