The current ethnic tensions in Kosovo are the latest in a centuries-long struggle between the Serbs and Albanians for the region.
Riva is aware that the centuries-long struggle for the tribes of Solais V has long been about personal beliefs rather than any tangible assets.
Now the center of the stage was Rome, and Rome was in a centuries-long struggle against the empire of Persia to the east.
For them, the religion's return opens another chapter in a centuries-long struggle between Christendom and Islam for the domination of Europe.
Talleyrand was also a major supporting character in Katherine Neville's book The Eight, a quasi-mystical adventure novel about a centuries-long struggle for control of a chess set with mysterious powers.
Any attempt to define our values leads inevitably to the conclusion that they are not derived merely from the state but were developed through the centuries-long struggle for the rights of the individual in this country.
The confrontations were the product of a centuries-long struggle for the control of the eastern coast of the Adriatic Sea between South Slavs and Italic peoples.
One of Mr. Aslan's most important chapters deals with the centuries-long struggle between traditionalists and rationalists over the proper interpretation of the Koran.
These photos have drawn attention to the "suffering that has marked the latest surge in Chechnya's centuries-long struggle for independence from Russia".
Cubans see their engagement with the United States as part of a centuries-long struggle to throw off the colonial yoke - first Spain's, then ours.