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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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George Orwell wrote of the civil war within a civil war, for he was present when this conflict erupted in Barcelona.
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In 323-4 civil war ended with the elimination of Licinius, and Constantine was at last sole ruler.
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In this country that has been ravaged by civil war even more than by drought, security is shaky.
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It launched the 25-year-long civil war that resumed this month.
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The new king's first task will be to prevent the desperately poor country of 23m from sliding into civil war .
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The rhetoric of rights, which is engendered by this question, is a recipe for class war, and civil war .
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Their representatives are helping thousands of orphaned children and displaced families escape from the tyranny of civil war .
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To the King and most of his advisers the verdict was clear and, short of risking civil war , irresistible.