41.   In Syria, this sense of a special Arab destiny became even more fierce and immutable after the bruising military conflicts with Israel.

42.   In recent years the United States has pursued a strategy of deliberate ambiguity about whether it would protect Taiwan in a potential military conflict with the mainland.

43.   Instead, there is an inner stillness, a state of contemplation, whatever the outward storms of politics and military conflict.

44.   Israeli governmental and military officials have insisted that there is no immediate danger of a military conflict.

45.   Living conditions for their loved ones in Iraq are already terrible because of economic sanctions and would become even worse in a military conflict, several women said.

46.   Lee spent the day campaigning, seeking to reassure voters that his Nationalist Party government can protect them in the event of military conflict.

47.   Meanwhile, Chernomyrdin said a major sticking point in resolving the military conflict is the type of peacekeeping force that will patrol Kosovo.

48.   Nor would it have been unreasonable to collect targeting information on Soviet bases, given the possibility of a military conflict with the Soviet Union.

49.   No reader would ever mistake that passage for one written about Vietnam, which was simultaneously an overseas military conflict and a domestic political one.

50.   Oil shares climbed amid Middle East tension as renewed clashes between Kurdish factions in northern Iraq rekindled concern that a broader military conflict may erupt and threaten Gulf exports.