Colors will be unfurled, and battle cries will sound.

I think back on all the years of political battles, of polemical debates.

America s European allies are tiring of the endless battles and mounting casualties.

The area had been damaged by airstrikes and fighting between the regime and rebels.

The battle of the Somme was one of the bloodiest battles in human history.

Diplomacy, however, allows a president opportunity to enhance his authority for future domestic battles.

A year later, he participated at the Battle of Minden, a major battle that prevented a French invasion of Hanover.

Despite the heavy gunfire, I've been able to get away from it all and walk through the land of your ideas.

While on 16 December late as the misty cold gripped the night Warsak Road reverberated with the sounds of battle and detonating mines, the funerals had already begun.

In my experience, African youth are forgotten except when politicians need them for battle.

Many central bankers are like the proverbial general who plans to fight the last war.

They now have a chance to make good on their word. With many battles ahead in the fight against AIDS, TB and malaria, it would be a disgrace if this opportunity is squandered.

In one of the battles that the prophet waged, he told his followers, We are returning from the lesser war to the greater war, to the greater battle.

Instead, it tends to be punctuated by major developments battles, assassinations, breakthroughs that have consequences that are felt for years.

Before Moscow battled the fascists seated in Kyiv, it spent years guarding Russians from wicked foreign foster parents and dubious sexual deviants.

Columbus was notorious for using the wave the white flag then open fire technique, and won many battles this way.

Askai specializes in tracking the photographic trail of specific tanks and other military vehicles from Russia into the battlefields in eastern Ukraine. As has been rightly pointed out in the comments, the Pantzir S1 in Luhansk was moving on Oboronnya street.

The lessons of earlier battles against inflation are clear on one fundamental point inflationary pressures cannot be contained by negative, or slightly positive, real short term interest rates.

South Africa s courts have become a political battleground, as Mbeki and his allies use corruption charges to try to cripple Zuma s candidacy.

Most voters certainly swing voters, who usually decide elections do not like partisan battles as much as some politicians and their supporters do.

If Bush and Blair declare victory before the real battles have begun, they will undermine the very process to which both have committed so much at such great cost.

The only Church of England cleric to win a Victoria Cross during World War One as a combatant has been celebrated in his hometown 100 years on.

The outcome could impact the world and not only the esoteric world of international finance for decades to come.

Ever since, a country that had never truly experienced democratic rule has enjoyed all the charms and vicissitudes of competitive elections, legislative battles, and rotation in power.

Once the fighting between Israel and Hamas subsides, the question of what the Arab states will do to strengthen Palestinian moderates and to make peace with Israel is sure to arise.

Recently, thousands more fled fresh outbreaks of fighting between local militias and supporters of Laurent Nkunda, a renegade general of Congo s army, who has rejected a call to begin disarming his troops.

But the passing from the national stage of Richard Lugar has properly rung new alarm bells not only among concerned Americans, but also among policymakers far removed from the US and its partisan battles.

According to an American journalist who interviewed locals in Khorog about the clashes (free of harrassment, unlike Sodiqov, by state officials), government troops probably came off worse from the fighting.

Suddenly, all the inhabitants of the liberated areas disappeared, moving either to the regime controlled or occupied areas, which are safer from the bombardment and fighting, or towards the refugee camps on the Turkish border.

Abu Majid had lost two family members on the battlefields, the last of which was Oubada Abullaith, his son in law, a military leader in the Thowar Al Sham battalion, which fights under the Free Syrian Army.

Economic development in the Gaza Strip was limited under Egyptian rule, and the region suffered the burden of absorbing Palestinian refugees fleeing the fighting in the southern part of mandatory Palestine, which would later become Israel.

The result is what General Sir Rupert Smith, a former British commander in Northern Ireland and the Balkans, called war among the people a kind of struggle that is rarely decided on conventional battlefields by traditional armies.

A living example of this is Afzal Lala, a Pashtun politician associated with the Awami National Party who, despite all the threats from the bloodthirsty Tehrik e Taliban Pakistan, remained in Swat through the recent fighting.

A living example of this is Afzal Lala, a Pashtun politician associated with the Awami National Party who, despite all the threats from the bloodthirsty Tehrik e Taliban Pakistan, remained in Swat through the recent fighting.

Global Voices authors stayed on top of the tumultuous situation in Ukraine, from the escalation of the Euromaidan protests in Kyiv and the ouster of President Viktor Yanukovych, to Russia's annexation of Crimea and fighting between pro Russian separatists and Ukrainian forces.

In the interview he also admitted that he wouldn't be doing any Game of Thrones prequels or sequels when the series comes to an end next summer, saying he is 'done with battlefields and horses'.

This is a war in which the interplay of informational conflict and physical violence is especially evident, in which disinformation and propaganda muddle motives, deny unmistakable violence, and seek to confuse both fighting forces and key populations.

The renewed interest in Victorian social history what people ate and wore, who worked for whom, etc., as opposed to the history of battles and great men may not be a coincidence.

China s succession, though set, will nonetheless bring a period of uncertainty, while South Korea will undoubtedly face its usual no holds barred democratic battle in its coming presidential election.