Whatever the conditions, the Open battles are intense wars of surviving adversity and maintaining self-control.

It is an intense war, with some 1,600 to 3,000 incidents and attack attempts a month.

Even so, some of the nurses who help run the hospital worry that an intense war could exceed the hospital's capacity.

For insurers, that has meant an intense war for shares of the dwindling whole life market.

More, and more intense, war would then follow.

After independence, Angola was the scene of an intense civil war from 1975 to 2002.

An intense war was waged across the state and former comrades found themselves fighting each other.

But an intense war of words continues, fed by strong nationalist feelings in the two nations over the 33-year-old territorial dispute.

Nooranad Padanilam has a history of an intense war.

And so, experts say, the warring factions in Sudan are forced either to find peace or fight a much more intense war.